🗝 Through my BCT formula, I build brands and accelerate growth. | Dealmaker | Fractional CMO | Growth Hacker | Global Expansion | Lead Gen Expert | Canadian-American who speaks Spanish. Y'all, eh, tacos. 🇨🇦🇺🇸🌮

In 2012, I lost my daughter in a car accident. The years that followed became my wilderness experience—preparing me for what I was about to discover in 2019.

After going through a divorce and finding myself as a full-time single dad, fighting to survive the transition, I learned the most valuable lesson about business: your pipeline isn't just your revenue source—it's your lifeline.

In 2018, I was cleaning pools at 5am just to get by. No business. No network. Just two little girls depending on me and a future I couldn't see.

Then 2019 came and everything changed. That's when I discovered the true power of LinkedIn and strategies & tools that felt like superpowers.

Not the "post your resume and hope" version of LinkedIn. The strategic, relationship-building, pipeline-generating approach that most people never discover.

It wasn't the platform that transformed my life—it was the relationships I built through it.

By 2020, I went from survival mode to landing clients like the New Jersey Devils, brokering deals in Dubai and Mexico City, and building Stormbreaker Digital—a LinkedIn-focused marketing firm that understands the fundamentals of good marketing, but also the right tools that get the job done right. We're both technical and creative, which gives our clients a significant advantage when looking to grow and scale.

We've now grown into an AI-first growth partner for businesses who want to adapt faster than their competitors and grow like crazy during this AI gold rush.

If you're looking for a skilled marketing team to build AI systems, tech-enable your business, support your sales team, grow your brand with world-class content in our podcast studio, or successfully go to market, let's have a conversation.

While we have specialized experience in SaaS, financial services, and a dozen B2B industries, we've found our most meaningful work is done with businesses that take a relationship-first approach to growth. This caters to our sweet spot of data + creative + brand + tech—now powered by AI.

I also co-authored "The LinkedIn Advantage" with world-renown Results Coach, Tony Jeary, because I believe every founder deserves to understand the strategies that rebuilt my life and business.

I also built LeadStorm AI - the only all-in-one CRM platform built for relationship-first businesses, especially companies in financial services.

If your pipeline feels like it's running on hope instead of systems, let's talk.

The same relationship-building strategies that took me from tragedy to building a global business can work for you too.

Matt Cretzman

Matty Schirle

Founder "Self-Esteem in a Bottle" l Hi-Tech skin care l Skin Cell SCIENCE + Silicon Valley TECHNOLOGY + BOTANICALS

4X Founder - not including my Landscape Company founded in HS.

I started Entrepreneur-ing in 6th grade with my lawn mower.

My Father made it clear that if I wanted to go to college—I had to pay for the majority.

I learned budgeting, pay-for-performance, and even checklists before High School.

   → My dream? To be a Michigan Wolverine
   → My motivation? I had to pay

By 9th grade, I had $3,500 saved 
($26K in 2024 dollars)

By HS, I had my first P&L with my peak making over $1,000 per summer week—funding my college

    🏆 Dream achieved—I became a Wolverine!

I enrolled in B-School, but then I realized: 
My Detroit heroes and virtual mentors 

- Auto Execs Lee Iacocca & John DeLorean -  
   were engineers first, then CEOs

I didn’t want to be the CEO in the boardroom who couldn’t understand the technology 

required to create profitable revenue streams

So, I made a bold move: 
I switched to Chemical Engineering

From Semiconductor Engineer 
      → To Crisis Management 
      → Then, International Biz Executive

In the corporate world, I became the 
Problem-Solver you wanted on your team

I learned to solve so I did not need to sell 

I led an International Team
Dallas, Tokyo, Singapore

We solved a 6ppm Reliability Problem on a Space Shuttle-Class computer chip

My REWARD? A promotion to GM of the next Billion$$ Semiconductor Fab

I turned it down… for an entry-level sales job outside the company 

Three years later?
     → VP of U.S. Sales

     → Then, Corporate VP of Int'l Business 
            Strategy of a $3B Japanese Corp

     → Led a $190M Reverse Triangular Merger
            —creating a $300M ARR company

Next Opportunity to Solve?

As my kids dealt with teen problem skin, 
I found my next billion$$$ opportunity.

The Skincare Industry.

After decades of solving problems in semiconductors, 

I realized the CPG skincare industry was using harsh ACIDS & harmful CHEMICALS 

So, what do you do?
👉 You Disrupt It.

That’s how I founded SkinKick™

       We "Replace Pain With Performance" 
       by combining:

       → Silicon Valley TECHNOLOGY
       → Skin Cell SCIENCE
       → Powerful BOTANICALS

SkinKick is disrupting with products that are both healthy AND effective 

Born to Create Revenue. Wired to Disrupt.

I’m back home—ENTREPRENEUR-ing.

Join me if you are an investor, market-teer, or just want Clear, Healthy and Glowing skin

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