Seasoned executive and leader with deep expertise building global brands, businesses, and high performing teams. Board member, investor, and advisor with broad experience in leading consumer brands, food, retail, and scaling franchise organizations through various stages of growth. Growth leader who has built businesses at the intersection Main Street and Wall Street, connecting big brands and businesses with small and mid-sized independent business owners. Seasoned President and COO with experience in strategy, operations, culture & communications, crisis-management, development, M&A/reorganization, change management, integrating digital and physical brand expressions and communities, multi-channel brand extensions, consumer brands, marketing, PR & media, licensing, strategic alliances & partnerships, domestic and international franchising, operating model pivots
- Business Advisor: High growth business strategies and teams, multi-channel brand architecture, licensing and partnership approaches, international expansion, executive communication skills, bridging and integrating worlds of startup thinking and innovation and large, established corporate structures, building effective cross-cultural and cross-generational teams and relationships, aligning communication, training and incentives to drive business results, interpersonal skills to manage strategic implementation of difficult change
- Speaker & Facilitator - Change Management, Innovation, Leadership Development, Business Integration (Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Model Transition, High Growth, Hyper Competitive Markets), Resilience, Driving Sales and Impact
- Board Member for private, public and both VC and PE backed companies (Milk Bar, HumanCo SPAC, Slice) as well as Trade Associations, Industry Groups and Non-Profit Organizations (UN, CGI, WEF//YGL, YPO, NRAEF, WFF, GRA)
- Volunteer and volunteer group leader for organizations that support the development of underserved populations around the world through skill training, entrepreneurial mindset, and sustainable practices