Built by operators, for founders.

PikeSquare is a small bench of senior GTM operators who chose embedding with founders over taking the next big title.

Why "PikeSquare"

A formation, not a freelancer.

The pike square was a military tactic that dominated European battlefields in the late Middle Ages. One hundred soldiers in a ten-by-ten grid, each carrying a steel-tipped pike — coordinated, disciplined, and nearly unstoppable until firearms emerged in the 17th century.

We borrow the metaphor on purpose. An integrated go-to-market team — using modern tech, aligned on a single strategy, and moving as one — is a formidable business weapon. That's the team we help founders build.

What that means in practice

  • Strategy, leadership, and ops show up in the same room — not three separate consultants.
  • Every engagement is led by someone who has held the role.
  • Discipline beats heroics. The formation wins.

The partners

Susan McGovern and Steve Bamberger.

Susan McGovern

Susan McGovern

Co-founder, Partner

Susan McGovern has spent more than twenty-five years in B2B SaaS and enterprise software — across startups, scale-ups, and global enterprise companies including PeopleSoft and SAP. Most recently she was VP of Growth at Axonify and VP of Go-to-Market Strategy and Operations at Legion Technologies. Earlier she was VP of Solutions at Visier and managed solution consulting at SuccessFactors, where she exceeded quota in seventeen of eighteen quarters. At Alchemer, she oversaw teams responsible for retention and growth in a product-led motion serving both B2B and B2C customers.

Susan has built functions from scratch — solution consulting (sales engineering), customer success, and revenue operations — and scaled them through hiring, ramping, and operating cadence. She has supported leadership teams through fundraising rounds, board cycles, and the operational rebuilds that come with growth. At PikeSquare, her practice spans GTM strategy, customer success, revenue operations, sales, product marketing, and enablement — with a current focus on helping teams use AI to do more with the systems they already own.

Steve Bamberger

Steve Bamberger

Co-founder, Partner

Most recently, Steve Bamberger was Chief Revenue Officer at GiveCampus, the world's leading fundraising platform for educational institutions. He is a thirty-five year enterprise software veteran with deep experience scaling revenue organizations. Steve was Chief Revenue Officer at LeapYear Technologies, leading the company through its acquisition by Snowflake. From 2013–2019, he was Chief Revenue Officer at workforce intelligence leader Visier, where he grew the business 90% annually. Other positions include President and Chief Operating Officer of Evolv Technologies, Chief Operating Officer of Netformx, and Vice President of North America for Oracle Communications. Earlier in his career, Steve spent seven years with Accenture (then Andersen Consulting). At various points in his career, Steve has designed, implemented, tested, sold, and marketed enterprise software systems throughout the world.

At PikeSquare, Steve advises CEOs and CROs and headlines sales kickoffs and industry events as a keynote speaker — on sales excellence, GTM strategy, sales execution, building repeatable revenue motions, and how AI is reshaping the modern revenue org.

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