Our Story
For years, we watched talented young people struggle both in establishing their careers as well as through career transitions that should have been smoother. They had the degrees. They had the drive. But they lacked the strategy, the confidence, and the support to turn potential into real opportunity.
University career centers were overwhelmed. Online advice was generic. AI tools could polish a resume, but couldn't teach someone how to tell their story or build actual relationships.
We built Launch to close that gap.
Between us, we bring over 50 years of experience in management consulting, business transformation, brand strategy, and leadership development. We've worked with Fortune 500 companies and coached professionals at every stage. But our real passion has always been the same: helping young professionals who are ready to go but don't yet know exactly how to get there.
Launch exists because we believe emerging professionals deserve more than generic advice. They deserve a systematic approach, one that gives them clarity, confidence, and the skills to build careers that last.
Leadership Team
Kevin Kelliher
Kevin brings over 25 years of experience in management consulting and business transformation, including at both Booz Allen Hamilton and Ernst and Young, leading high-stakes initiatives for private and public sector clients.
Throughout his career, without even planning on or realizing it, he developed a superpower of building camaraderie with young professionals around him, which translated to mentoring young people who entrusted him — interns, co-workers, students, colleagues, friends. He found himself helping them clarify their goals, rebuild their stories, demonstrating for them the power of networking and reciprocal, trusted relationships, and navigating them through decisions that mattered.
Kevin’s genuine passion to support young talent to establish and build careers has become his life’s work.
Kevin holds a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College, an M.S. from Johns Hopkins University, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a certificate in AI in Business Operations from MIT.
CEO & Co-Founder
Paul Pita
Paul is a brand strategist, certified coach, and former agency CEO who built and merged a multimillion-dollar advertising firm before spending years helping some of the country's most recognized enterprises tell their stories. Paul has worked on national brands like Coca-Cola, United HealthCare. Antigua Apparel and other enterprise level companies. His agency, The Pita Group, became one of Connecticut's top-ranked Hispanic-owned firms before he orchestrated a merger with a national digital agency and helped grow to make the Inc. 5000 list in 2020.)
What Paul learned from all of it: The professionals who stood out weren't always the most credentialed. They were the ones who knew how to communicate who they were, show up with conviction, and build relationships that opened doors.
That insight is what drove him to Launch.
Paul is a certified coach, regular speaker on personal branding and leadership, and has served on the boards of the United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut, the University of Hartford, and the Connecticut Art Directors Club (where he served as President). He holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Central Connecticut State University.
Co-Founder & Chief Leadership Officer
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