Brian Shride

Fractional Business Development Executive | Strategic Growth Consultant

Executive Summary

Fractional business development executive and strategic growth consultant—helping AEC, GovCon, SLED, and geospatial teams raise PWIN, shorten cycles, and clean up proposals.

Career Highlights

  • $130M+ in awarded contracts across AEC, geospatial, and government markets.
  • Built & led capture programs; modernized boilerplates, compliance, and color-team cadence.
  • Delivered high-volume proposals and complex teaming for primes and niche specialists.

What I Bring

  • Strategic positioning with clear value propositions and win themes.
  • Disciplined capture and proposal hygiene: faster reviews, fewer rewrites, stronger compliance.
  • Complex teaming: primes, subs, JV/MPs, university & lab partners.
  • Clear, persuasive storytelling that moves evaluators to “yes.”

Who I Work With

  • Verticals: AEC, infrastructure & transportation, energy & utilities, environment & water.

  • Capabilities: geospatial & GIS, remote sensing & imagery, proposal shops in cleanup.

  • Public sector: GovCon (civilian, DoD, IC), SLED

Fractional BD services that move the needle.

  • Strategic positioning: market fit, offer design, and competitive messaging.
  • Pipeline triage: focus time on pursuits we can win; clean exits on the rest.
  • Capture discipline: reviews that cut cycle time and raise quality.
  • Proposal modernization: compliant boilerplates, reusable snippets, AI-ready assets.
  • Account-based outreach: targeted campaigns that warm evaluators.
  • Partnerships & channels: smart teaming that strengthens eval criteria.
  • Enablement & scorecards: cadence, dashboards, and deal clarity.
  • Knowledge acceleration: central snippets, evidence, and past performance.
Brown & Root corporate office
CH2M Hill
Brown & Root was acquired by Halliburton
Halliburton
Brown & Root, Inc
Brown & Root

A few of the complex, cross-functional environments where I delivered results and built strong relationships.

Fractional BD Services

Whether you’re flying blind into RFPs or just tired of stalled pipelines, I jump in where it counts – strategy, positioning, proposals, and partnerships. No fluff. Just results.

  • Strategic Positioning: Identify high-fit opportunities. Craft messaging that wins – GovCon, AEC, and tech sectors.
  • Proposal & Capture – Hands-on support-from shaping win themes to ghostwriting responses. I don’t just advise, I deliver.
  • Growth Partnerships – Connect with decision-makers. Build smart teaming alliances. Unlock hidden revenue channels.
Unisys
Unisys
Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman
JACOBS Engineering
JACOBS Engineering

A few of the complex, cross-functional environments where I delivered results and built strong relationships.


From Sales Leadership to Strategic Impact

I’ve supported leadership and delivery across the Americas, Europe, and Asia—navigating international banking, visas and renewals, and culturally diverse teams. The constant: clarity, trust, and ownership.

  • Represented companies in Canada, Mexico, Germany, the Netherlands, India, and Singapore.

  • Oversaw multimillion-dollar transfers and compliance details without slowing delivery.

  • Bridged time zones and functions so engineering, ops, and exec teams stayed on the same page.


Global Work, Practical Delivery

I’ve spent my career seeing both the forest and the trees—then turning that view into action. Today I serve as a strategic advisor and fractional business-development partner to organizations across AEC, geospatial, and technology.

“It’s not about spotting opportunities; it’s about creating clarity, aligning leadership, and helping teams execute with confidence.”

With clients, I’ve opened new markets, retuned offers, and closed multimillion-dollar contracts. I’ve advised C-suites, led proposal development, shaped go-to-market messaging, and implemented systems that strengthen operational agility.

I bring the perspective of someone who’s been in the room—from project kick-offs in India to congressional meetings in Washington to negotiations in Frankfurt. I’m a trusted operator with perspective and a storyteller focused on measurable results.


Strategy, focus, connection, and action—less buzzwords, more how I work.

Strategy & Brand

Set the north star and lanes—brand voice + compliant templates—so every proposal reads clean and consistent.

Partnerships and Channels

Map co-sell value, evidence, and MDF so partners actually move deals.

Proposal & Capture

Compliance-first builds, black-hat/red-team reviews, and reusable snippets that lift quality.

Exectutive Outreach

Warm the right rooms, shape opportunities, and progress complex pursuits with a steady exec cadence.

Predictable Sales

Stage hygiene, weekly reviews, exit criteria, and PWIN-weighted scorecards that remove guesswork.

Market Expansion

Turn first wins into new sectors/regions with a plan you can deliver—and measure.

Ready to talk?

Let’s build something that wins.