What is The Rohde Way?
Founding, growing, and managing a business is tough, and entrepreneurs face constant challenges. It doesn’t matter how good the business plan is (or was!) – things change rapidly, and adapting to those changes quickly and effectively can mean the difference between failure and success.
Rohde Way is here to help. As fellow entrepreneurs, we’ve faced those same challenges ourselves. Leveraging a quarter century of experience, we are here to support you and your organization; planning, strategy, decision making, and all aspects of founding, growing, and exiting a business. Rohde Way combines data-driven decision making with time-tested intuition and deep experience to yield superior results – each and every time. Candor is our middle name. We sit on your side of the table and use our skills and resources to ensure your organization achieves the best possible outcome. We exist to help you move forward, and we’re only successful when you’re successful!
Our Services
We provide advisory services to customers
of all scales and interests. Our services include:
of all scales and interests. Our services include:
For Startups
- Advising on all aspects of how to build a company from the ground up
- Thinking through core thesis of company and product/service offerings
- Identifying potential markets/customer base(s) and business development activities
- Consulting on funding, including bootstrapping, pitching investors, and more
- Creating a highly productive, positive, creative culture and recruit/retain a great team
- Reviewing and negotiating contracts with customers and suppliers
- Serving in acting/interim management roles to help drive the company forward fast
- Mediating disputes between founders
For Investors
- Vetting of technology and product concepts and analysis of IP
- Assessing founders and management team and identification of strengths/weaknesses
- Analyzing of company business thesis/case and return potential
- Reviewing competitive landscape in a target tech-inclusive vertical
- Providing easy-to-understand briefings on complex, new/evolving technology areas
For Mid | Large Companies
- Vetting potential acquisition targets (team, technology, products, business), prior to and during the due-diligence process
- Serving as Independent Board Member for company or subsidiaries
- Providing analysis/advice on emerging technical or scientific areas, applications, and industries
- Assisting with US Government contracting, including identifying, landing, and managing government business, pricing, negotiating contracts, accounting approaches, and compliance. Experience with classified information, clearances, and programs.
For Law Firms
- Supporting merger and acquisition activities
- Analyzing technologies, IP, products and engineering/technical topics
- Developing models, research on key topics, and expert witness testimony
For Government
- Advising on future concepts and technology evolution and horizons
- Synthesizing near, mid, and long-term actionable goals and development of realizable requirements
- Bridging the communication gap to improve relationships between Government and business
- Reviewing contractor proposals and milestones/deliverables throughout project/program lifecycle
How to Work with Us
Years in the trenches have taught us that no one size fits all. Rohde Way adapts and flexes to meet the needs of clients of all sizes. We can work on a “per project” basis, or via hourly/daily consulting, depending on fit. All of our work and interactions with customers is confidential, and we do not accept assignments that present substantive conflicts of interest. We do sign NDAs, the IP we generate in an engagement is all yours, and in certain circumstances we may accept equity as compensation. No engagement is too big or too small. Why not call us today?
Who We Are
Dr. Mitch Rohde is Founder and Principal of Rohde Way. He recently retired as CEO of Quantum Signal AI (QSAI), an advanced math-based engineering R&D company headquartered in Saline, Michigan. After completing his dissertation work at the University of Michigan on direct brain interface technology, Mitch co-founded QSAI, a signal and image processing technology company. Under his leadership for almost a quarter century, QSAI successfully built and delivered real-world solutions leveraging intelligent algorithms to customers including the US Department of Defense, US Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, Raytheon, THQ, Sony, QinetiQ, Whirlpool, Amway, and many more. QSAI tech and products have been used worldwide, including significant contributions in forensics, autonomous vehicle modeling and simulation, and teleoperation technology.
In 2019 QSAI was acquired by Ford, and Mitch continued to lead the organization with a new focus on building the future of transportation. Mitch serves on a number of civic and professional boards and committees, and in 2022 was honored with the University of Michigan College of Engineering’s Distinguished Alumni Service Award. Mitch has specific engineering expertise in signal and image processing, mobile robotics, circuit design, and modeling and simulation. Mitch is Entrepreneur in Residence at Ann Arbor Spark, an entrepreneurial mentor at Washtenaw Community College, and regularly speaks on entrepreneurship. He holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and MS and PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering, all from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and is a member of Sigma Xi, AUVSI, IEEE, SAE, HKN, and TBP. For more on Mitch, check out www.mitchellrohde.com.
