FLIGHTLINE

PARTNERS

The Entrepreneur’s Copilot™

Advisors, managers and deal makers for founders, entrepreneurs and the investors that support them

Why Flightline

The flightline is where aircraft prepare for takeoff. It's organized chaos - ground crews, pilots, controllers, and mechanics coordinating to get complex machines safely airborne.

Success isn't about any single person. It's about alignment. Everyone clear on the mission, the sequence, and their role.

Founding, building, and growing a high-growth company works the same way.

Like an aircraft, your enterprise is complex and full of potential. Leaders matter, and so do engineers, operators, investors, advisors & managers who understand how the pieces fit together. When everyone is aligned, you’re ready to achieve liftoff.

We're Flightline Partners because we help make order out of chaos. We've launched enterprises, done deals, and managed capital.

We help entrepreneurs do the same.

How we help

We architect & implement critical relationships to execute and scale

Enterprise Architecture & Business Development

We help companies architect their enterprise and secure commercial relationships required to execute and scale. Transaction types include:

  • OEM & technology integration: we structure partnerships that embed your technology into other companies' products and platforms, or bring external capabilities into yours, creating revenue and strategic value through product-level collaboration.

  • distribution partnerships: we identify, structure, and close the relationships that build market reach, secure distribution, and create the commercial infrastructure required to scale.

  • contract R&D, manufacturing & supply chain: we design and secure the development and manufacturing capabilities that deliver your product and protect your margins.

We bring operating experience, not just frameworks, working alongside management to turn strategy into signed agreements and commercial traction.

We structure, negotiate, and close deals that drive growth

Corporate Development

We manage the full transaction lifecycle, from origination and structuring through negotiation and close. Transaction types include:

  • angel & venture financings

  • acquisitions

  • joint ventures

  • strategic exits

We also have particular expertise in IP-based transactions, including:

  • technology in- and out-licensing

  • patent acquisitions & sales

  • patent financing transactions

  • patent monetization strategies

We act as an experienced deal manager alongside management. Our role is to bring clarity, discipline, and momentum to complex processes by coordinating advisors, managing timelines, anticipating friction points, supporting due diligence and helping you make informed decisions when the pressure is on.

We support aligned investors who invest in founders and entrepreneurs

Fund Development & Portfolio Mgmt

The most critical resource for entrepreneurs is access to capital.

We work with angel investors, family offices, venture studios, and emerging fund managers on:

  • capital formation

  • fund structuring

  • investment due diligence

  • portfolio management

We lend operating insights to every stage by helping design fund vehicles, align LP expectations, and evaluate opportunities through an operator's lens.

The goal isn't just deploying capital.

It's asking the right questions, structuring aligned interests, and building funds that perform.

How we work

Alignment is the essential competitive advantage. We exist to ensure the growth and success of the entrepreneurs we serve.

We're operators who've been in your seat - whether as founders, CEOs, or investors. Collectively, we've built companies, raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital, navigated complex M&A, brought products from concept to full-scale commercialization, guided startups to Fortune 500-scale clients, and managed the messy reality between strategy and execution.

We bring that experience to bear on your behalf, with skin in the game and an urgency to get things done.

We're the Entrepreneur's Co-Pilots.

We work with entrepreneurs in several ways:

  • Project based: we engage on projects with a clear scope-of-work and milestones defined upfront. Project fees are priced monthly or fixed-rate with success-based multipliers tied to your outcomes.

  • Fractional engagements: we engage in fractional executive engagements, interim transition management, crisis navigation, or complementing your team over a defined period.

  • 1:1 coaching: we will consider hourly engagements or refer you to our sister organization, Flightline Law PLLC.

The common thread: we're not consultants writing decks. We're experienced operators sitting alongside you, helping you ask the right questions, deploy judgment at pressure points, and achieve the alignment that creates sustainable value for all stakeholders.

Bryan is a leader in medtech and high tech innovation with 25 years of experience guiding breakthrough technologies from lab to market. He co-founded and led Pristine Surgical as President and CEO, pioneering the first FDA-cleared 4K single-use digital arthroscope. Bryan has completed over $1 billion in financings, fund formations, licensing, JVs, and M&A, and has collaborated with leading research institutes such as MIT, Harvard, Caltech, Mayo Clinic, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Recognized as an expert in IP strategy, Bryan has been named five times to the IAM 300 list of the world's leading patent strategists. He testified twice to Congress and to the US Federal Trade Commission on innovation policy. Bryan co-founded the Innovation Alliance, a leading industry trade group and served as a senior executive at an MIT-based semiconductor startup. He began his career as a corporate finance and venture capital attorney at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP in Boston.

He holds an MBA from Wharton School of Business, a JD from Notre Dame Law School, a Certificate in Disruptive Strategy from Harvard Business School, and BAs in Business & Political Science from Concordia College (Moorhead). He is a licensed attorney in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and lives in New Hampshire with his wife and has three college age daughters.

Who we are

Bryan Lord

Evan Goldberg

Evan brings three decades of experience guiding founders, investors, and boards through high-stakes growth and capital decisions. As founder of Garrison Street Partners, he advises leadership teams on growth strategies, market entry, operating model design, and strategic planning, helping them turn complexity into decisive action.

Previously, Evan founded and led Nobska Partners, a search fund pursuing lower middle-market acquisitions, raising capital from high-net-worth investors and PE firms while sourcing and evaluating a broad pipeline of businesses.

Prior to Nobska, Evan was Vice President of Corporate Development at JPMorgan Chase, where he led or supported more than thirty strategic transactions deploying over $1 billion in capital and generating over $100 million in incremental revenue. Earlier, he was a strategy consultant with Mitchell Madison Group, advising Fortune-scale clients on growth and corporate finance initiatives.

Evan has guest lectured at Boston University's Questrom School of Business and spoken at Harvard Business School and Dartmouth's Tuck School on entrepreneurship and strategic growth.

He holds an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and a BA in Economics (honors) from Trinity College and lives in Boston with his wife and two children.

Mike Miniati

Mike is a senior healthcare executive with nearly 30 years of strategic, operational, and investment experience in medtech, health tech, and healthcare services. He has extensive expertise in go-to-market strategy, marketing, sales, partnerships, and product management across provider and payer marketplaces.

Previously, Mike served as Chief Growth Officer for Toney Healthcare (acquired by PE) and Senior Vice President at Health Integrated (acquired by EXL). Over a decade at Guidant Corporation (acquired by BSX and ABT), he developed, launched, and managed products generating over $3.3 billion in sales and was co-inventor of a stent technology that led to over $2 billion in sales. Mike began his investment career at Guidant's venture group, Compass, where he made medtech investments, sat on boards, and developed investment strategies. Mike started his career with Accenture.

Mike holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BSE in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering from Duke University.

He lives in Tampa with his wife and is a proud father of two daughters in college.

Who we support

Flightline Partners is the lead startup mentor for MedTechVets, a 501(c )(3) not-for-profit organization supporting military veterans transitioning into the medtech workforce.

Through MedTechVets, we work with veterans who want to start their own medtech companies or join early-stage ventures. These founders bring discipline, leadership under pressure, and mission focus — we bring guidance about career pathways, capital formation, and the medtech ecosystem.

We provide pro bono mentorship because we believe the next generation of breakthrough medical technologies will come from founders who've operated in high-stakes environments where precision, coordination, and execution matter.

If you're a veteran building in medtech, or if you want to support this mission, connect with MedTechVets.