Concept B — comp v6 · The Team (2026-05-05)
Q · The Team

Operators. Amplified. The full picture.

Three partners with decades of operating experience. Industries we have run. Methodologies we authored. The AI-enabled team that runs alongside us, built and tested on our own ventures first.

01 / The Partners

Three partners. Equal billing.

Each partner brings a distinct lens. Together, the partnership covers the full arc from concept to operating outcome.

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Wes Miller
Strategy · Technology · Infrastructure

A futurist with deep capital markets, real estate, banking, and fintech entrepreneurship experience. Wes sees market opportunities others miss and structures the strategy that captures them. He is the partner who answers "what is possible here, and how do we get there." Concept to strategy.

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Brian Schwanebeck
Operations · Organizational Leadership · Scalability & Quality

Built and led delivery organizations that took strategy to outcomes at scale. SVP at Fiserv for 25 years, shipping industry-leading solutions to thousands of banks. Brian is the partner who turns ideas into operations that actually run. Strategy to outcomes.

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Jeff Murnane
Client Success · Competitive Intelligence · Marketing

Strategic operations, competitive intelligence, and customer success across financial services, technology, and emerging markets. Jeff architected the AI-enabled team platform that powers Finish Line Partners and authored proprietary methodology including the four-dimension threat scoring framework, the Doomsday Competitor exercise, and the Visual Axis Selection methodology.

02 / Cross-Partner

What all three of us bring. Without exception.

Long-cycle execution at scale. Each of us has built things that ran in production for years, not pilots that ended at the demo. We know the difference between a launch and a system that holds up.

Financial services and fintech fluency. Banking, payments, capital markets, real estate, title, fintech entrepreneurship. The regulated, complex, slow-to-trust corners of the economy where most consultants get stuck.

Hands-on operating posture. None of us hand off and disappear. The work that matters is the work that lives inside operations, and we stay close to it until it does.

Founders' mindset. All three of us co-founded Growstead Innovations, the proving ground for the AI-enabled team architecture that powers Finish Line Partners. We have built and operated the system we sell.

03 / Industries

Where we have direct operating experience.

Industries listed below reflect domains where the partners have operated directly, not domains we have read about. Other industries are considered case-by-case.

Banking
Core banking, retail and commercial. Brian's 25 years at Fiserv anchor this depth.
Fintech
Both build-side and operating-side. Wes brings entrepreneurial experience here.
Capital Markets
Wes's domain depth, plus Jeff's TD Ameritrade enterprise client operations.
Real Estate
Operations, transactions, and adjacent fintech. Wes's lens.
Title Insurance
Workflow optimization in title underwriting and claims.
Payments
Merchant, card, vCard, EFT. Brian's Fiserv depth.
Home Building
Operational and supply-chain domains in residential construction.
Consumer Packaged Goods
Operations and retail-adjacent functions.
Retail
Multi-channel operations, customer experience, and intelligence.
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