About
An Independent Growth Advisory and Research Practice Since 2007
AcceleratingBiz® works with CEOs, leadership teams, board members, and investors at growth companies to anticipate, assess, and address the opportunities created by disruptive technology. Today that means, above all, AI. Earlier phases of the practice covered digital, cloud, mobile, and Web3 transformation for clients across the United States, Asia, and Europe.
Current Roles
- Founder & Managing DirectorAcceleratingBiz
- Operating AdvisorGrowth Equity Fund
- Board Member
Education
- MBA, with distinctionKellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- A.B., EconomicsHarvard University
Randall Hancock
Founder & Managing Director
Randy helps growth company leaders take on two of the biggest opportunities in front of them: developing a winning strategy that their team aligns around and executes, and becoming an AI-powered business. Most of the companies he partners with are past product-market fit and scaling, from roughly $15M in annual recurring revenue to well beyond $100M, across enterprise software and adjacent sectors.
He brings hands-on practice alongside long pattern recognition. Randy builds AI agents himself, and a multi-agent system handles a real portion of his own day, which keeps his advice grounded in what the technology does today. He also serves as a board member of an enterprise AI platform company.
The pattern recognition comes from five technology cycles (the internet, cloud, mobile, Web3, and now AI) across the United States, Asia, Europe, and Australia. At Mainspring, he was part of the leadership team as revenue grew from under $1M to nearly $40M, through a 2000 IPO and an $83M sale to IBM. At Institutional Shareholder Services, he led global research and strategy while revenue nearly tripled to more than $100M, through three acquisitions and a $550M sale to RiskMetrics. He also founded and led the IBM Institute for Business Value, and founded and managed The China Greentech Initiative.
Today Randy advises independently through AcceleratingBiz, the practice he has run since 2007, and as an operating advisor and board member. He works the way he would want an advisor to work with him: hands-on, approachable, and useful early. The measure is a leadership team that agrees on where it is going and has already started moving.
Randy is supported by a small, dedicated team.
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