La Costa Group LLC (LCG) is a management consulting firm with senior level expertise in corporate strategy and execution, business development, emerging technology commercialization, operations and finance.

We founded LCG in 1992 to provide high caliber leadership resources to companies whose internal resources are pressed for time, facing severe budget constraints, and struggling to cope with uncertain changes in the marketplace. We specialize in helping both developed companies through difficult turbulent markets and emerging ventures through the tough challenges of business development. Our consultants and associates have proven experience in profit improvement and business start-ups. Their analytical capabilities and capacity to transfer knowledge to clear, focused solutions have enabled over 100 companies worldwide to address a wide range of challenges, improve performance, and better manage their success.

We invest in, commercialize, and develop partnerships with select new business and emerging medical technology ventures displaying high growth and business enterprise value potential. Our current investments are Health Odyssey LLC, RegeneMed, and Salvino-Flex LLC. Martin Kleckner, III, the company's managing principal is a member of Tech Coast Angels.

We provide widespread executive experience in helping companies increase their productivity, reduce costs, grow business value, penetrate new markets, and develop the effectiveness of key management and staff. Several of our senior advisors are certified Six Sigma Black Belts. Through its affiliate, The International Group, Inc. (TIGI), clients are provided with comprehensive training programs in sales, sales management, finance, business economics, strategic planning, marketing and communications. TIGI and LCG consultants teach courses and facilitate programs in Europe, the Americas, and Asia for dozens of Fortune 100 corporations such as General Electric, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell, Johnson & Johnson, Toshiba, Smith & Nephew and Roche Diagnostics.

On behalf of select emerging businesses, we periodically transition from advisory roles to assume management and business growth responsibilities, as founding members and interim executives. Our consultants escort new technologies through market and competitor due diligence, business plan development, capital raising (via angel networks, venture groups, foundations and grants), business alliance formations, and recruitment of key executives.