The founder
I've never been much for business as usual.
Heather Saxon-Simon
Growth & Transformation Executive. Entrepreneur. Founder of SAXON.
I've spent more than 25 years figuring out how businesses grow. Not just how to market them. How to build them, scale them, find new opportunities and make big ideas commercially viable.
I've worked inside startups, global enterprises and some of the world's largest professional services organizations. I've helped businesses grow, navigate acquisitions, launch new offerings and rethink how they go to market.
And somewhere along the way, I built a multimillion-dollar business of my own.
Today, I'm the founder of SAXON, a strategic advisory firm helping organizations simplify complexity, unlock growth and make smarter use of technology, marketing and AI.
My sweet spot? Seeing the opportunity others haven't connected yet.
The career
Not exactly a straight line. That’s the point.
I started my career at ACS, later acquired by Xerox, before joining Exstream Software during its startup years.
At Exstream, I helped build a global enterprise technology company serving more than 850 customers. When HP acquired the business for $371 million, I stayed through the acquisition and integration, helping bring what the team had built into an organization operating in 170 countries.
It's one thing to help build a business.
It's another to see it scale, get acquired and become part of something exponentially larger.
That experience changed how I thought about growth. Because the opportunity isn't always where everyone is looking. Sometimes it's a new market, a smarter business model, the right partnership or a technology that changes the economics entirely.
And sometimes it's recognizing that the way things have always been done is exactly what's holding them back.
The business
Then I built something of my own.
In 2015, I founded SAXON. Not because the world needed another agency, but because I'd seen the gap between big recommendations and actually making things happen.
I wanted to build something different. Senior-level thinking that stayed close to the work, where strategy translated into real results.
That approach helped grow SAXON into a multimillion-dollar advisory business, working with organizations including Deloitte, EY, PwC and Benjamin Moore.
My work spans launching businesses, global growth strategies, strategic alliances and commercializing emerging technologies. At Deloitte, I've supported global cybersecurity and AI initiatives, with more recent work focused on growth strategy across its international network.
Different industries. Bigger challenges. Same motivation.
Finding the opportunity. Figuring out what matters. Making it happen.
The proof
A few things I've helped make happen.
- $371M
HP’s acquisition of Exstream Software
The company I helped build during its startup years, then stayed with through acquisition and integration.
- $3.1M
First-year revenue
For a new business I helped launch.
- $3.25M
Raised in eight months
Through a fundraising initiative I supported.
- 2015
Founded SAXON
Originally Saxon Marketing & Public Relations LLC.
And a multimillion-dollar company of my own, built on the idea that great thinking and practical execution belong together.
Different organizations. Different definitions of success.
A pretty consistent pattern of turning ideas into outcomes.
Ready when you are.
Do the right things.
Make them work harder.
Tell us what’s stuck. We’ll help figure out what deserves attention—and what doesn’t.
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