Founded Brighter Brew to address a growing problem in the American craft beverage business: a lack of smart, effective, and financially sound business strategy amidst an increasingly competitive landscape, high debt loads, and a slowing of the historic, explosive growth of the last 25 years.• Built business plan, budget, and identified strategic partners• Developed branding, marketing collateral, and web content in collaboration with marketing, design, web development, and copywriting partners• Provide FP&A, business intelligence, and strategic planning services to small- and medium-sized breweries and beverage industry businesses• Goal-setting, competitive analysis, and high-level strategy development• Supply chain transformation, identification of cost drivers and development of new vendors, processes and route-to-market to drive improved margins• Analyze client operational and financial data to identify areas for improvement and growth• Partner with client’s senior leadership to cascade expectations for growth, investment, cost management, and disruption throughout the organization• Collaborate across functions to generate a detailed initiative map to support top-down goals• Build a sustainable reporting and review system for client management to track implementation• Support client in defining and measuring KPIs, understanding initiative ROI, and implementing tools to drive continuous improvement• Offer financial planning support to breweries in planning and parties seeking to optimize M&A valuation

Recruited due to expertise in brewery operations, paired with reputation as a cost-conscious, analytical problem-solver in order to help rapidly growing brewing company in its third year begin to achieve profitability. • Designed, implemented, and managed processes for demand planning, supply planning, S&OP, procurement, inventory control, transportation planning, MRP, and network planning, among others• Led the implementation of SAP ERP platform functionality• Identified and engaged with new strategic partners for brewing and packaging materials• Renegotiated pricing with existing can and folding carton suppliers in order to drive improved COGS• Managed new material and production expectations during implementation of high-speed can line• Rapidly implemented supply chains for new products, including seltzers, RTD cocktails, and spirits as NRBC rapidly looked to expand into Beyond Beer• Implemented supply chains to integrate multiple new locations and geographic expansion• Led the implementation of new warehouse organization system using 5S principles• Defined ROI, engaged suppliers, negotiated pricing, and implemented float of owned kegs, replacing leased-per-fill kegs with a cashflow-positive keg purchase

PMO and Project Manager for global innovation and R&D platforms, working with multicultural teams to deliver projects with 8-figure business impact. • Directed the organization of the packaging innovation platform for a 10M+ hectoliter global brand. Separated the complex platform into multiple work streams with their own scope, RACI, project plan, budget, and resources. Delivered a project pilot in three months from idea to shelf.• Managed T&M and work stream execution to deliver R&D intellectual synergies during the integration of the SABMiller acquisition. • Led a US team in Risk Management approach while working on compliance with new regulations in California.

Played a lead role in budgeting, performance management, financial forecasting, and strategic planning for the supply, procurement, and logistics organizations of the North America Zone. Also played a role in new product development and M&A due diligence. Led budgeting activities for the $5+ billion cost of sales budget at both the detail and executive level, and managed a project portfolio worth over $100 million in annual organic savings. • North America Zone owner of the process for filling the pipeline with—and tracking the implementation of—initiatives to consistently deliver $100+ million in annual year-over-year savings. • Led the coordination of the top-down (executive level 1-year plan) and bottom-up (detailed product-by-product) budget processes for the $5+ billion VILC (Cost of Sales) budget for North America. • Led the detailed budget process for brewing materials, including identification of initiatives, setting KPI targets, building Bills of Materials, and setting standards.• Led the process for building cost estimates for new products in support of business case development. Managed the output of a cross-functional, non-reporting team in a monthly cycle. • Performed data analysis on product cost in support of due diligence during the exploratory phase of M&A activity with potential craft acquisitions.

Led a team of 45 mechanics and electricians maintaining all equipment in the brewing department of a 15 million bbl facility to keep the process running at optimal performance. Responsible for safety, staffing, training, KPI performance, backlog, downtime planning, and a $5 million Maintenance budget. Led the continuous improvement cycle for the business area, including the identification of opportunities and execution of projects.• Led project to optimize technician self-scheduling and create a process to develop a weekly plan of required work.• Led Green Belt project to deliver 10% reduction in Yeast Centrifuge parts and labor cost and created a new benchmark Preventative Maintenance plan using Lean-Reliability Centered Maintenance methods.

Managed the 24-hour operation in the cellars at the largest brewery in the US. Owned safety, quality, production, and cost KPIs, as well as hiring, staffing, and training for 100 brewers, within the Lager and Finishing cellars. Led the continuous improvement cycle for the business area, including the identification of opportunities and execution of projects.• Identified and led implementation of process initiatives to save over $300k per year in premium brands.• Led implementation of initiative to drive reduced tank entry to drive reduced safety risk and $500k per year in labor savings. • Led the implementation of new brands in the cellar, including recipe creation, capital execution, automation, training, budgeting, and sensory testing.

Managed the 24-hour operation of the Brewhouse from grain unloading to fermenting, including production, staffing, and KPI performance. • Applied Six Sigma Green Belt training to lead a process improvement team that sustainably generated $300k in annual savings. • Set new records for Brewhouse efficiency.

Collaborated with multiple internal departments, suppliers and shippers to ensure on-time production. Managed a monthly raw materials budget of ~$10M and tracked all financial and inventory records for the Brewing department, according to SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) compliance requirements. Developed financial forecasts and explained variances to senior management. Managed brewing and yeast plans. • Eliminated rail demurrage saving $250k annually, and setting a benchmark within the company. • Developed and tested recipes for new products and scaled production,

Oversaw day-to-day and shift-to-shift operations of the Brewing Department including brewing, fermenting, lagering, filtering, and releasing operations focused on 4 key deliverables – Safety, Quality, Production, and Cost. Resolved complex production, supply, product quality, and staffing problems on a daily basis. • Led implementation and tracking of performance from a project based on flexibility of ingredients