About
Nel Blu Group
Nel Blu Group is a fractional growth partner helping media companies, creators, nonprofits, startups, and mission-driven brands.
Many organizations have already built something valuable: an engaged audience, a trusted brand, or a meaningful mission. What they often lack is the revenue infrastructure needed to turn that momentum into sustainable growth.
Nel Blu Group helps bridge that gap by serving as an embedded extension of your team—combining business development, strategic partnerships, and revenue strategy to capture new opportunities and drive growth.
Nel Blu is Italian for “in the blue,” a name that reflects both our ocean-inspired roots and our focus on helping organizations discover and pursue new opportunities for growth.
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Kat Mikuta
Kat brings more than 15 years of experience building revenue, partnerships, and growth strategies for some of the world’s most recognized media organizations, including Bloomberg Media, TIME, CBS, and several venture-backed startups.
Throughout her career, she has launched new business lines, built multimillion-dollar partnership programs, and worked with organizations of all sizes—from Fortune 500 companies to startups—developing strategic relationships across media, technology, wellness, healthcare, consumer brands, travel, finance, and mission-driven sectors.
At TIME, Kat built the company’s Venture Partnerships division from the ground up, growing it to more than $15 million in revenue in three and a half years. Across her career, she has worked at the intersection of storytelling, partnerships, and revenue strategy.
Outside of her client work, Kat is an avid scuba diver, ocean advocate, and founder of Nel Blu Media, a platform dedicated to exploring the people, innovations, and ideas shaping the future of our oceans.
She currently serves on the associate board of WINGS Women of Discovery.
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