Spire isn’t your typical consulting and training company.
Spire is a decision science company that prepares leaders to operate in high‑trust, high‑stakes environments through scenario‑based cognitive training software and performance analytics. Our mission is to provide objective, data-driven tools that transform how institutions identify, develop, and assess emerging leaders, beginning with ROTC programs that use Mentor to train cadets for the decisions they will face as officers.
Meet Our Digital Team
Spire isn’t your typical training software company. We are a team of proven leaders who have deliberately chosen a different path for our professional lives, giving us a perspective and training approach that is meaningfully different from traditional training and software companies.
Nathan Fry
Founder & CEO
Nate sets Spire’s overall vision, makes final calls on strategy and direction, and leads product design and validation.
He brings 20 years of professional experience to the team as an Army Infantry Officer, National Guard battalion commander, military diplomat, MBA, university professor, mountain guide, and avalanche educator.
Vasko Atanasovski
Head of Product & Software Design
Vasko owns Spire’s UI/UX and the user-facing build of the product.
He is an independent software developer in Skopje, Macedonia, and co-founder of Workbench Entertainment, an award-winning game studio.
Daniel Yeboah
ML / AI Engineer
Daniel is a data-driven software engineer with a master’s in data analytics and experience building and maintaining software applications.
His background in frontend development, coupled with expertise in data analysis, visualization, and machine learning, enables him to create user-focused features informed by real usage data.
Marko Manevski
Unity Programmer
Marko is a programmer with over 10 years hands-on experience building interactive and immersive experiences using the Unity Engine.
With a strong foundation in C# and game systems, he brings ideas to life through clean, scalable code and thoughtful problem-solving. Marko thrives on tackling technical challenges and optimizing gameplay mechanics, ensuring high-quality performance and seamless player interactions.
Atanas Kostovski
Software Engineer
Atanas is the driving force behind the Spire web dashboard, handling everything from initial architecture to deployment.
A senior software engineer and DevOps specialist, he focuses on speed, reliability, and seamless integration with Spire’s core systems. He brings a decade of experience navigating the technical demands of both lean startups and large-scale enterprise environments.
Brooks Sherman
Head of Strategy & Growth
Brooks drives market analysis, customer discovery, and early pricing and pilot structures for Spire.
He brings 10+ years of experience in partnerships, complex intellectual‑property negotiations, and multicultural stakeholder engagement across technology, development, and media, including senior SaaS partnership roles, service in the Peace Corps, and a prior career representing New York Times–bestselling authors.
Georgie Darling
Creative Director, Branding & Marketing
Georgie plays a key role in safeguarding Spire’s ethics and culture while shaping how the company presents itself to the world.
She leads visual identity and marketing materials, drawing on her master’s in sound art and experience as a visual artist and brand designer to create cohesive, compelling assets across Spire’s website, product, and outreach.
Elliot Stevenson
Head of Finance & Operations
Elliot leads financial modeling, budgeting, and internal systems that support Spire’s day‑to‑day operations and long‑term scalability.
He shares responsibility for customer discovery with a focus on financial validation, pricing strategy, and business‑model testing. While completing his MBA, Elliot helped lead his team to a second‑place finish in the highly competitive Turner MIINT impact‑investing competition, further validating his strength in venture and investment analysis.
Spire’s headquarters is in Vermont, with engineering and product talent split between North Macedonia and New England. We are geographically positioned to network across three major U.S. metropolitan areas and dozens of partner nations globally, helping attract talent and build customer relationships.
Our roots in North Macedonia trace back to the founding of the U.S. National Guard’s State Partnership Program, which paired Vermont with North Macedonia in 1993 and has grown into a decades-long defense and training relationship.
The Spire Logo … What’s it Mean?
Historically, a spire has been a position of advantage that leaders use to see the world differently—from early astronomers climbing towers and mountains to place their telescopes, to military commanders seeking high ground to understand the battlefield. As a vantage point, a spire helps us see both ourselves and the challenges we face, giving perspective on where we stand in the world and where we need to go to gain an advantage through new knowledge or positioning.
The Spire logo nods to this idea: the sharp pinnacle is the spire itself, surrounded by the circle of the world we seek to better understand. The constellation is Ursa Minor, the Little Bear, with Polaris (the North Star) at the pinnacle, reminding us that climbing the spire is an arduous task but one that offers a clearer view of the world around us—and that we must stay focused on a guiding “true north” of values and ethics to help us navigate it.