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Columbus, Oh, Us

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Intrapreneurial role responsible for creating new revenue streams by launching and scaling new adjacent and disruptive businesses. P&L responsibility for emerging businesses, including budgeting, tracking, and business case realization. Responsible for success of new products in all phases of creation including ideation, validation, roadmap creation, development, test and learn, launch, go to market, growth, incubation, and operations. Created a disruptive new digital sales channel, helping guide potential customers to a holistic set of protection products to meet their needs, Nationwide ThreeSixZero. threesixero.Nationwide.com

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Lead innovation efforts for the Corporate Development/Emerging Businesses group including 1) development of innovation competency through culture, training and programs, 2) managing a balanced portfolio of innovation initiatives and 3) deploying a cross-functional team of up to seven innovation team members to advance the most impactful innovation initiatives from empathy research, through ideation, validation, prototype testing, build and launch into market followed by a period of incubation and scaling for the new businesses.

Farmers Branch, Tx, Us

Intrapreneurial role responsible for creating new revenue streams by launching and scaling new adjacent and disruptive businesses. P&L responsibility for emerging businesses, including budgeting, tracking, and business case realization. Responsible for success of new products in all phases of creation including ideation, validation, roadmap creation, development, test and learn, launch, go to market, growth, incubation, and operations. “Founder” role and officer-level position in newly created subsidiary (Lorica LLC) focused on incubating mobile device insurance products adjacent to the core HYLA business. Created new Device Protection offering (smartphone warranty/insurance) from scratch - HelloLori.com.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

General Manager of prepaid wireless service products across all channels including corporate/agent retail, national retail and web. P&L accountability for prepaid, a ~$200MM line of business. Scope included all aspects of product including strategy, development, delivery, operations, and customer support. Key performance indicators included subscriber growth, revenue, cost, margin, customer retention, average tenure and customer lifetime value (CLV). Led a team of product managers to grow and manage two prepaid products (differentiated by channel) and a team of operational managers responsible for the delivery of full customer experience and back-end processes. Grew Prepaid subscribers by 33% and added ~$40MM of incremental revenue year over year.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

“Founder” role of newly created subsidiary (Lab465 LLC) focused on incubating digital products not tied to the core U.S. Cellular business. Lead creation of new subsidiary including all aspects of the business model from conception through implementation. P&L responsibility for Lab465, including budgeting, tracking, and business case realization. Responsible for success of digital product in all phases of creation including ideation, validation, roadmap creation, development, test and learn, launch, go to market, growth, incubation, and operations. Created revenue stream from scratch, achieved positive net revenue within 9 months, grew to >$10M annually.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Led a team of up to thirteen innovators responsible for the back-end of innovation. Primary responsibilities included removing risk from innovation initiatives through iterative development, rapid proto-typing and test and learn activities. Responsible for creation of finalized business cases, innovation initiatives scoping and delivery, effective transition to core business, and realization of in-market results. Developed, implemented and incubated a disruptive pricing differentiation (Bill Reducer), acquiring 60K users, driving $8M in incremental annual revenue and reducing churn by >25% for these users.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Lead a team of up to six high performing project managers responsible for the successful implementation of enterprise-level strategic initiatives including new distribution channels, product/services, large-scale application development, systems integration and operational efficiency improvements. Accountable to direct leadership as well as Executive Vice President Committee for successful outcomes of project portfolio. Responsible for all aspects of team management including hiring, performance management, development and succession planning. Received 2012 Leadership Forum Award for Exceptional Team Performance.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for the successful implementation of highly visible, enterprise-level strategic initiatives as directed by Executive Vice President Committee. Leveraged influence, alignment and communication skills to ensure projects are aligned with strategic priorities and deliver maximized business results.

Chicago, Il, Us

Ultimate accountability for operations delivery across all benefits services (Pension, 401k and Health and Group benefits) for up to eight large clients (four in the Fortune 500). Managed up to twelve Benefits Operations Managers directly and up to fifty associates in a shared service model; working in collaboration with virtual teams.

Chicago, Il, Us

Consulted with clients on matters of plan design, compliance and administration. Single point of contact/escalation for two pension benefit clients. Managed team of up to five associates.

Chicago, Il, Us

Managed team of three Business Analysts to execute all operational tasks for the pension plan administration for two clients, including ad hoc requests, data clean-ups, recurring processes, and government reporting.

Chicago, Il, Us

Executed all operational tasks for the pension plan administration for two clients.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Marketing, Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Education record

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics/Computer Applications