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Brandon Stein: Founder & Managing ConsultantPast Role: Molecule Software, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development
Ashton Advisors is the independent advisory practice of Brandon Ashton Stein, a Houston-based principal with twenty years of work at the intersection of strategy and software.
Ashton serves tech-enabled businesses across energy, software, finance, and professional services on strategy, operations, customer, and software M&A. Engagements are
performance-based, referral-led, and direct — senior on every engagement, with no associate or staff overhead.
Three formats:
— Sprint. Six to eight weeks, fixed scope, sized to a single decision. Defensible AI roadmaps, vendor diligence, Salesforce strategy foundations, ROI cases.
— Engagement. Three to six months of embedded program leadership through a transition window. Post-asset transition GTM, CRM and customer transformations, onboarding programs, customer-success leadership.
— Fractional. Ongoing executive overlay. A senior strategic voice in the leadership cadence — a fractional CXO presence for growth-stage and PE-backed operators without a full-time hire.
Recent work has included enterprise AI use-case roadmaps for clean-tech operators, post-asset transition GTM playbooks for PE-backed software portfolios, multi-year Salesforce strategy for regulated utilities, customer-success leadership for healthcare nonprofits, and fractional CXO roles inside power-utility transformations and PE / M&A advisory firms.
Brandon was previously a Director at MRE Consulting, with prior roles at Acrisure (Head of Agency Partner Success), Salesforce (3+ years), and Deloitte Consulting. He holds an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business.
Initial conversations are confidential, complimentary, and take thirty minutes.
