WHO WE ARE
We have built companies, led organizations, scaled ventures, launched brands, advised governments, and shaped opinion.
Across industries and continents, we've helped create billions in enterprise value.
LEADERSHIP
The perspective, judgment, insight, and
experience to help you lead.
Strategy
Managing Partner
Head of Strategy
Troy Queen is a global strategy leader and operator who has built companies while working alongside leaders at inflection points where business, communications, media, and stakeholder dynamics converge.
He works with CEOs, boards, founders, investors, and executive teams facing decisions that extend beyond the business itself. His approach combines commercial judgment with firsthand experience of how leadership decisions shape organizations, markets, reputation, and culture.
His career spans global advisory, entertainment, consumer, entrepreneurship, journalism, and government, including service in the White House, the U.S. Senate, and the Department of Defense. He has advised leaders and organizations across more than 45 countries, including heads of state, CEOs, athletes, cultural icons, and globally recognized brands.
Troy holds a Master in Management from the London School of Economics, a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Florida.
Areas of Expertise
Communications
Partner
Head of Communications
Amanda Crumley is an executive communications leader, strategist, and trusted advisor with more than three decades of experience helping leaders and organizations navigate complexity, build trust and credibility, and communicate with clarity.
She advises CEOs, executive teams, elected officials, candidates, nonprofits, advocacy organizations, and mission-driven companies on strategic communications, executive messaging, media relations, reputation management, crisis communications, and public affairs—often during moments of significant opportunity, transformation, or public visibility. She helps leaders read the moment, anticipate response, and frame the message when the stakes are highest.
Her experience spans the White House, Congress, national politics, business, technology, entertainment, and philanthropy, bringing clients seasoned judgment and a uniquely broad perspective.
Areas of Expertise
Studios
Partner
Head of CERNO Studios
Mark Grove is a creative leader, cultural strategist, and producer who transforms strategy into experiences, stories, and brands that shape culture and define legacies.
He operates at the intersection of ideas, persuasion, and impact. He is known for cultivating exceptional talent, shaping creative through disciplined execution, and knowing when the work is ready to meet the world.
His career spans technology, journalism, consumer, media, and entertainment. He has built and led multidisciplinary creative teams, working with Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Skydance, Disney, NBC News, Noor Group, Investment Dealers’ Digest, UUNET, and MCI WorldCom to deliver award-winning work across content, platforms, brands, and experiences.
Mark graduated from Northeastern University’s School of Journalism with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism.
Areas of Expertise
The judgment behind Cerno
By the rooms, the pressure, and the outcomes that defined it.
Every engagement is built around the moment. We bring together the expertise, access, and relationships that turn strategy into action.
From heads of state to CEOs to journalists, policymakers, investors, bankers, professional athletes, and cultural icons, we deliver access, opportunity, and outcomes.
— Our reach becomes yours.
