Russell Ackner

Founder, Torch Group | Partner, Winning by Design

📍 Boca Raton, Florida, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 1 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2018𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Executive Board Member, Co-Founder
Oct 2018
The market and the way we work has changed. BuyChain can help you gain a competitive edge in the age of consolidation and market volatility. Our holistic solutions bring together disparate and human-dependent data points into one centralized source of truth. Our dashboard and self-service customer portals enable you to make buying and selling decisions in real-time based on accurate data, rather than speculative, information.
Experience · 3 entries
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Founder (1)
2018
Partner
Nov 2018
Winning by Design is the leading growth advisory firm for scaling businesses. From diagnostic insights to system design and deployment, we work with the world’s most prominent brands to architect compounding growth. WbD advisors have mastered the Bowtie Data Model™, the SPICED™ Operating Model, and the GTM Model, having deployed revenue architecture across companies like Canva, Dropbox, Instructure, DocuSign, One Stream, and Five9. These advisors work with your team to help them avoid mistakes, see around corners, and build with confidence while operating at speed. Forward-thinking investors and executive teams work with Winning by Design to assure scalable, sustainable, and durable growth.
Executive Board Member, Co-Founder
Oct 2018
The market and the way we work has changed. BuyChain can help you gain a competitive edge in the age of consolidation and market volatility. Our holistic solutions bring together disparate and human-dependent data points into one centralized source of truth. Our dashboard and self-service customer portals enable you to make buying and selling decisions in real-time based on accurate data, rather than speculative, information.
Managing Partner & Chief Wayfinder
Mar 2018
Torch Group is based in South Florida. We are a global strategic marketing and brand consultancy that understands people, not companies, conduct business. We work with leaders who want to achieve sustainable, forecastable revenue growth. Our digital, retail, and brand expertise extends from operations to customer experience. We're grateful to deliver measurable results to the brands and people we have been privileged to work with.