Our Core Team

Bryan Mattimore, Principal Before co-founding the Growth Engine Co. in 1999, Bryan Mattimore was founder and President of the Mattimore Group, an 18-year-old creativity consulting and ideation facilitation company. He is one of America's top experts in applied creativity, ideation facilitation and innovation management. In his career, he has facilitated more than 1,500 marketing and business strategy ideation sessions. He is the author of the bestselling book, "99% Inspiration, A Real World Guide to Business Creativity" selected as the American Management Association's membership offering/book of the year; and inventor of the creativity training game, Bright Ideas. His articles on applied creativity have appeared in dozens of magazines including Advertising Age, Reader's Digest, The Futurist, Omni and Success. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, with a major in psychology.
Gary Fraser, Principal Gary Fraser is co-founder of The Growth Engine Company and a veteran of 25 years of creative marketing and brand management at some of the world's top consumer products firms, including General Foods (Kraft), Chesebrough Ponds, and Unilever. He and his Oral Care team successfully tested and launched Mentadent Toothpaste, turning it into a quarter of a billion dollar brand in three years. In his marketing career, Gary received two Golden Effie Awards for Effectiveness in Advertising, was named Marketer of the Year by Brandweek Magazine, and won three Edison awards as a marketing innovator. While at Unilever, he was also the director of Marketing Services and created their first company-wide innovation council. Gary is a graduate of Middlebury College with a major in economics, and received his MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Jane Snyder, Senior Consultant Jane Snyder has a diverse background that includes experience at publishing, consumer products, high-tech, and non-profit organizations. Jane began her career as a children's book editor, but after business school she entered the world of traditional consumer products marketing in the Oral Care division at Unilever. Jane later spent five years at Amazon.com, working in the Marketing, Toys, and Electronics departments there. After Amazon, Jane served as the executive director of The First Tee of Greater Seattle, a non-profit that strives to introduce good values to inner-city kids through the game of golf. Finally, in an effort to get back to her marketing roots, she entered the world of consulting and partnered with The Growth Engine Company in 2005. Jane is a graduate of Wellesley College and received her MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Our Extended Team

Over the last twenty years, we have built working relationships with a diverse and highly talented group of specialists including:

• Business Strategists
• Package Designers
• Industrial Designers/Structural Engineers
• Copywriters
• Qualitative and Quantitative Researchers
• Trend Experts
• Consumer and Trade Promotion Specialists
• PR Experts
• Freelance Ideators
• Creative Consumers
• Ideation Facilitators
• Technographers