Excellence, Integrity, and True Partnership

Starlake Management Group ("Starlake") is a strategic management consulting firm. We partner with leadership teams to inform strategy, identify and capitalize on emerging opportunities, support disciplined execution, and build enduring world-class enterprises. Our work is grounded in deep engagement, analytical rigor, and a commitment to serving as a trusted strategic partner.

Operating from a conviction in free enterprise, capital markets, and technological advancements as the most potent levers to generate widespread societal prosperity, Starlake partners with leading organizations to build a more resilient, expansionary, and dynamic future for civilization.

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FEATURED PUBLICATIONS

Our thinking on management, economics, and geopolitics

Principled Leadership and a Values-Centered Culture: Dave Messner on Costco's culture and enterprise leadership in the 21st century

Global Management Forum
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David Messner (SVP, Costco Wholesale Corporation) sits with Rishi Chilamcharla (Managing Partner, Starlake Management Group) to discuss Costco's culture, key principles, and the leadership blueprint that he recommends for the next generation of corporate leadership in the 21st century.

On Scaling and Platform Strategy>
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Coming May 2026

Scaling is a complex organizational issue that involves several key considerations around talent, timing, platform strategy, and beyond. Drawing on C-level insights, we uncover what the right steps are for scaling key initiatives, products, and operating models across diverse regulatory environments and customer segments.

Engineering Excellence: How Jason Morris leads Nordstrom's technology organization
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Coming June 2026
Global Management Forum
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‍‍Jason Morris (Chief Technology Officer, Nordstrom Incorporated) sits with Rishi Chilamcharla (Managing Partner, Starlake Management Group) to discuss the key strategic and operational steps he took to establish a high-performance technology organization at Nordstrom, and the key principles that guide his approach to emerging technologies such as AI, and his key recommendations for executives navigating a similar path.

SELECT CAPABILITIES

The Firm partners with leadership teams to inform strategy, develop operational capacity, and capitalize on emerging technologies

Our capabilities span enterprise direction and transaction activity, with an emphasis on M&A and due diligence work; research and innovation, with an emphasis on developing world-class technology organizations; and, operations, with an emphasis on capability-building and operating model transformation.

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ABOUT OUR FIRM

Starlake is driven by a conviction in free enterprise and capital markets as the most potent levers to expand the aperture of human ambition and prosperity

Driven by this conviction, the Firm partners with leading organizations— innovative start-ups, principal investors, large global enterprises across industries, government institutions and municipalities— to develop them into world-class, operationally excellent, and technologically sophisticated forces for lasting impact.

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