Saltwater Marketing LLC provides business consulting services including comprehensive business planning and strategy formulation, market and product development tactical planning, business assessment opportunity analysis including feasibility studies and assistance in seeking grant and equity funding opportunities.
Patricia Pinto, the company’s CEO, is a visionary marketing strategist and experienced business, market and product development planner.
From 2003-2010, Ms. Pinto, and her firm Saltwater Marketing, LLC was involved in supporting the lobster industry as the Lobster Institute’s commercialization arm. The Lobster Institute, which is housed at the University of Maine, provides scientific research, education and outreach to the Lobster Industry on a national basis.
Patricia Pinto, the company’s CEO, is a visionary marketing strategist and experienced business, market and product development planner.
From 2003-2010, Ms. Pinto, and her firm Saltwater Marketing, LLC was involved in supporting the lobster industry as the Lobster Institute’s commercialization arm. The Lobster Institute, which is housed at the University of Maine, provides scientific research, education and outreach to the Lobster Industry on a national basis.
Over the past ten years, Ms. Pinto secured millions of dollars of funding for her own firm and several other Maine companies and organizations to support early stage efforts associated with new business launches.
In early 2011, Ms. Pinto began serving as a Business Planning Consultant to lobstermen and blueberry farmers under the USDA’s Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Technical Support program. To date, she has helped 70 of these clients complete comprehensive business plans.
Ms. Pinto moved to Maine in 1982 when she was recruited by Unum Insurance Co. to develop and execute the company’s first corporate-wide strategic planning process.
Ms. Pinto has close to forty years executive management experience in a wide spectrum of industries.
In early 2011, Ms. Pinto began serving as a Business Planning Consultant to lobstermen and blueberry farmers under the USDA’s Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Technical Support program. To date, she has helped 70 of these clients complete comprehensive business plans.
Ms. Pinto moved to Maine in 1982 when she was recruited by Unum Insurance Co. to develop and execute the company’s first corporate-wide strategic planning process.
Ms. Pinto has close to forty years executive management experience in a wide spectrum of industries.