Our Story

What we're about and how we got here.

We come from different backgrounds.

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And it's a little bit of a right brain and left brain collision.

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Sanjay's background is in business and strategy. He received his engineering degree from Berkeley and his M.B.A. from The University of Chicago. He grew up in Booz Allen as a consultant and eventually became VP of Corporate Development for FMC Technologies. Becky's background is in journalism and marketing. She grew up running her own photography and videography company.

We started working together on some marketing projects, and we eventually both worked together at a Houston start-up. We commuted in together downtown, and that's when Evolve was born. From our past experiences--Sanjay as an executive and Becky as a business owner--combined with our experiences working together at the start-up, we realized there was a need for a different kind of consulting firm. And we realized that our different backgrounds and our passion to help people and companies was the perfect groundwork for starting a consulting firm that would serve clients in a whole new way.

We offer more than the rigid commercial models and the cookie cutter approach offered by the typical consulting firm, which isn't effective for most organizations. We promise to connect and engage with you, challenge the status quo and each other, and go to extraordinary lengths to make sure you are wildly successful.

We would love to work with you and your team!

Debates

Debates Sanjay thinks he won

Debates Becky thinks she won

About the Co-Founders

Sanjay Bhatia

Strategy and Business Improvement

Sanjay wants to live in a world where innovation can propel our economy to new heights, diversity in skills, backgrounds, and personalities can come together to make incredible things happen, and where drone flying is legal in National Parks.

Sanjay has designed and implemented new business models throughout his career. At Booz Allen, he helped energy and service companies, and businesses in other industries, improve their competitiveness in various ways, including M&A, marketing and branding, operational improvement, and organizational design. He led FMC Technologies Corporate Development teams for nearly nine years, increasing the company's market share and share of wallet with new product launches, technology development, and service add-ons. He has consulted for a number of start-ups and privately owned companies, focused on achieving growth.

Sanjay enjoys having his paradigms altered by Becky. He also loves droning, investing, and hanging with his college-aged daughter. He enjoys mentoring family, friends, and colleagues, and seeks to help our millennials achieve financial security while they change the world.

Becky Willmon

Marketing and Customer Success

Becky wants to live in a world where all start-ups thrive, Reese's peanut buttercups are a healthy meal and broccoli is dessert, and she could take her Goldendoodle, Gypsy, everywhere.

She is a photojournalist turned marketer who is passionate about helping companies tell their story and develop a deeper understanding of their customer, creating engaging content for target audiences, and designing processes that help drive customer success. With a background in journalism and marketing, telling compelling stories and connecting with people is in her DNA. Her work has been featured in Beauty Revived and she was awarded Couples' Favorite from Weddings in Houston.

She loves to think outside the box and doesn't follow the status quo just because "that's the way it has always been done." She is obsessed with supporting start-ups and loves the challenge of helping them develop a marketing plan and content that will drive demand and growth for their business. When she isn't busy driving Sanjay crazy by questioning everything and eating Reese's peanut butter cups for dinner, she loves spending time with her family, running, reading, photography, puppies, and driving her Jeep.

She believes in giving back and wants to help children who have been affected by a parent's struggle with addiction.

The Evolve Team

We are building a team who isn't afraid to push the boundaries of what's possible. Together, we work hard, collaborate, support, and challenge each other without fear. We also believe that a few bad jokes and a good prank every now and then is the best way to start a team meeting.