You don’t need a consultant who’s read about building companies. You need one who’s actually done it.
Joe Koenig has spent more than 20 years in the trenches of technology and software — not as an advisor watching from the sidelines, but as a founder, executive, and operator who has navigated the same challenges your business is facing right now.
As the founder and CTO of Embrace® Education Software, Joe built a company from the ground up — architecting the technology, earning SOC-2 security compliance, scaling the team, and ultimately leading the company through a successful acquisition by a major private equity firm. He knows what it takes to grow, what due diligence actually looks like from the inside, and what separates companies that scale from companies that stall.
Before that, Joe served as Chief Information Officer for the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, where he led technology strategy across one of the state’s most complex and data-sensitive organizations.
That breadth of experience — startup founder, PE exit, government CIO — is what makes Background LLC different. Joe has operated across bootstrapped companies, PE-backed organizations, and government entities. He’s not guessing at what works. He’s been there.
Background LLC exists because too many great companies plateau — not from lack of effort, but from lack of the right systems, strategy, and accountability structures. We work with founders and leadership teams to build the plans and processes that turn ambition into measurable growth.
If you’re ready to stop spinning your wheels and start moving forward, let’s talk.
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