We - The Shirman Group

Measaurable Growth

Strategic advisory and consulting services that grow revenue and value for technology companies.

We are entrepreneurs and operators

We’ve done the heavy lifting – from sales, marketing, and alliances, to engineering, manufacturing and supply chain operations. We’ve been there when companies are born, and when they rise to dominate markets.

We advise executives and boards

Unify your organization around customer needs through integrated strategies, decision processes, and operating plans. Our proven methodologies and frameworks combine with creative problem-solving and decades of tech industry experience.

We are Entrepreneurs and Operators

We’ve personally done the heavy lifting across almost every function – from sales, marketing, and alliances, to engineering, manufacturing and supply chain operations. We’ve been there when companies are born, and when they dominate markets.

Meet Lilia Shirman

Lilia Shirman is the founder and CEO of The Shirman Group. She is an experienced operating executive and CMO, go-to-market thought leader, board director, and investor who drives top line growth and corporate value creation for B2B companies. Lilia has shaped strategies that generated hundreds of millions in revenue for industry leaders including VMware, EMC, Amazon, Oracle, and Symantec, and MongoDB. Lilia served as the turnaround CMO at MariaDB, led strategic alliances at BEA Systems, and managed business process and quality systems development at Applied Materials.

Lilia is also a Venture Partner at West Coast Equity Partners, a growth equity firm focused on hyper-growth tech companies, and serves as Board Director at StyleBox. She is the author of 42 Rules for Growing Enterprise Revenue. A sought-after speaker on maximizing customer relevance, she advises the CEOs and Boards of fast-growth ventures and is a mentor at F50 Elevate Accelerator and Stanford University’s Global Entrepreneurial Marketing Program.

We Work with Exectuives and Boards

We develop strategies, decision processes, and integrated operating plans that unify your organizations around customer needs. Our proven methodologies and frameworks combine with creative problem-solving and decades of tech industry experience.