The operator who wrote the theory and built the products.
Russ Cersosimo operates from three positions at once: seven companies founded, two books written, and a productized behavioral IP platform he built and runs. Operators without books are common. Authors without operator experience are common. IP founders without a services arm are common. The combination is not.
The operator
Russ has founded seven companies across seven distinct disciplines — enterprise data infrastructure, healthcare operations at scale, patented pharmaceutical biochemistry, vertical SaaS, personal-brand media, industry organizing, and natural CPG. Each one taught the same lesson: businesses don’t scale because of great ideas. They scale because someone runs the operating system underneath the idea — the technology, the data, the CRM, the marketing engine, the brand, the buyer decisions, the team dynamics. Every founder Russ worked alongside was brilliant at their thing. What they were missing was the connective layer.
Webbula
Email data intelligence — founded from scratch, raised the capital, built the business, exited. Now serves 1,200+ brands including Fortune 100s, generating $5M+ in annual revenue.
Carried into CA: Enterprise-grade data infrastructure, email deliverability at scale, CRM data quality, audience segmentation, data-driven revenue operations.
Keystone Integrated Care
Healthcare operations at scale — founded; received multiple eight-figure acquisition offers. The company continues to generate $15M+ annually.
Carried into CA: Healthcare operations, regulated-industry scaling, service business operations, multi-location coordination, revenue-cycle systems.
Hemp Synergistics
Patented pharmaceutical biochemistry — founded and developed the IP; brought 50 products and ingredients to the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical markets.
Carried into CA: IP development and patent strategy, regulated-market product entry, portfolio architecture, B2B category launch.
iSpeak AI
Vertical SaaS — founded and built a commercial-grade platform for the real estate industry.
Carried into CA: Vertical SaaS, AI product engineering, platform-market fit, technology commercialization.
Optimal Reach Media
Personal-brand and thought-leader media house — founded and runs. Video production, brand development, and content systems for the operators and speakers Russ works alongside.
Carried into CA: Personal-brand architecture, video production, thought-leader positioning, content-engine systems, media infrastructure.
Pennsylvania Medical Cannabis Society
Industry association — founded. Organized practitioners and stakeholders in Pennsylvania’s regulated medical cannabis market.
Carried into CA: Trade-association founding, industry organizing, regulated-market advocacy, stakeholder coordination, category leadership.
By Sepi
Natural CPG — founded and formulated the product line in the lab, launched to retail and DTC. Now operating under current ownership with ongoing brand support via Optimal Reach Media.
Carried into CA: Consumer product R&D, formulation chemistry, clean-label CPG, brand creation from scratch, retail distribution, DTC and wholesale growth.
The author
Russ wrote Molecular Influence and Elemental Influence. Together they form the theory layer under the Cersosimo Decision Science & Engineering platform — how humans actually decide, how influence propagates through relationships, how behavioral timing shapes outcomes. Consultants who apply someone else’s methods are common. Operators who wrote the theory they apply are structurally rare.
Elemental Influence is the book that anchors this firm. It teaches the reader to look at a name on a LinkedIn profile, a CRM record, or an intake form, see one piece of information that has been sitting there their whole career, and know how that person is wired to think, decide, communicate, and trust — before the first meeting. The lineage runs 2,500 years, from Empedocles through Galen, Jung, and Marston (DISC), reassembled into a single operator’s manual — and field-tested: 24 for 24 cold reads of strangers; 11 for 12 on a cruise ship, in writing, before the ship left port.
The system Cersosimo & Associates operates from is written down. It’s called Elemental Influence.
The IP founder
In addition to the consulting work, Russ built and runs Cersosimo Decision Science & Engineering — the productized behavioral IP arm. Not a side project: a full company with its own brand, products, customers, and revenue lines. Temporal Predisposition Mapping, a proprietary predisposition engine, a suite of decision calculators, PeoplePrints for HR, the Chairside Playbook workbook series, and the daily Field Notes — years of stress-testing behavioral IP across consumer, professional, and enterprise surfaces.
That’s what the IP arm means for a CA engagement: when Russ walks in, he’s not improvising. He’s applying systems he has already productized and stress-tested — and the IP was itself stress-tested by the operator experience of running seven companies. The two arms feed each other. That’s the moat.
See the productized IP at cersosimo.co →“I have worked with marketing and public relations companies for decades, and none have compared to this team. By far, they deliver more than promised. In a niche market where what I do is widely unknown, this company has been systematically helping make my presence in the industry known. Well known. Since retaining this company I have been able to accomplish more than I ever have before and my business is consistently and organically growing while I am actually paying much less than I ever have before. I can’t say enough positive here. If you want to get out there, get known, grow your sphere of influence and your company, hire this group now. Don’t wait.”
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