Andrea Alvey Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Take a transformative role, focusing on major projects designed to efficiently and exponentially increase the organization’s size/revenue.-Operationalize the CEO’s strategic vision-Streamline processes, create procedure and policies-Establish and report on business KPIs-Drive growth-Liaise with, coach, and mentor CEO direct reports

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Providing advisory support to this growth-oriented business.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Providing business development support to this expanding Advocacy Services business.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

President and Co-founder of this consulting & investment company. We provide management consulting and advisory services focusing on change management, supply chain restructuring, systems and internet technology, and and general board advisory services.

I joined this board upon its inception, when the company IPO'ed on the Danish Stock Exchange, in late 2010. My 10+ year board participation spanned an extreme growth period where the company increased in value from an opening market cap of just over $2B, to around $8B when I retired from the board.My involvement included my general board seat as well as seats on the Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee. I was also actively involved in special projects involving the Americas Division performance, and significant overhaul of the Pandora web presence. As part of the board I was also actively involved in the action taken to maintain business levels, and staff well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic onset.I was able to experience all types of public company challenges and successes as we progressed from 2010 through 2020. I was a major part of re-brandings, product introduction triumphs and failures, marketing campaign development, systems implementations, massive manufacturing expansion, and both protests and celebrations with investors and franchisees.I grew significantly personally throughout my time with Pandora, and through the many board chairmen and colleagues who remain my friends today.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

A client and investment over this 9 year period - Max Muscle Sports Nutrition is a unique sports and general nutrition supplement manufacturer and retailer. Main focus of activity includes: network growth, operational & cost improvement, start-up management, and issue resolution processes.

London, England, United Kingdom

Re-focused the business on global growth opportunities. Areas of responsibility included: Global Strategic Planning; Acquisition Management; Direct-to-Consumer Channel development and expansion, both At Home and E-commerce; Market Expansion; and IT responsibilities maintained from previous position.• Led the development of a research-based strategic planning process resulting in 3-year integrated business plans. The plans supported multi-channel sales growth of over 15%, market share increases, needed organization development, and targeted focus on a Customer Relationship Management program. The Customer Relationship Management Program was projected to drive market share, as well as cost productivity of over £10 million.• Developed and began execution of a strategic e-commerce expansion. This included the development of global operating guidelines; the creation of growth plans, business plans and near term executions; and all system definition and selection. Total e-commerce sales grew by over 30% and the organization initiated the start-up of e-commerce in our UK region and France.• Created and executed a major development plan to drive growth in our in-home party plan business. The plan focused on the business integration of this unique selling channel and improving tools and training for our representatives. Initial UK region results indicated sales increases of over 20%, as well as improvements in other recruiting and retention statistics.• Evaluated brand entry into key markets resulting in detailed plans and the execution of market research.

London, England, United Kingdom

Fulfilled company requirement to have a Business Professional as Group Finance Director (CFO) rather than a traditional finance professional in order to present a strong, credible message to the financial community. Areas of responsibility included: Group Finance (including Global Legal, Risk/Insurance, Investor Relations, Master Data, Internal Audit, and Group Strategic Planning), and Global IT. Reported to the Global CEO and the Board.• Designed and executed the re-organization of Finance globally, including the implementation of a Financial Shared Service Center, resulting in productivity gains and cost reduction in Finance of circa 20%• Led the global installation of SAP. This launch was the first ever SAP Retail implementation on a global, single-instance basis. It was a proving ground for SAP in the creation and testing of multiple new retail modules. The execution was on time and on budget, and delivered benefits including sales increases of over £5 million, direct cost reductions of over £10 million, and other significant productivity and process improvements. • Oversaw multiple acquisitions of circa £10 million each of Body Shop franchise businesses across several key markets. Consistently delivered a fair price to the seller while negotiating an offer that increased profitability for the company.• Managed relations with all external investors. Created and delivered communications to The City/Analysts. Total Shareholder return doubled and our perceived value resulted in the eventual L’Oreal purchase of the business.• Managed acquisition transaction of The Body Shop by L’Oreal with the result being a premium to trading price.• Managed the refinancing of credit line through a bank consortium, increasing our limit from £85 M to £150 M.• Re-tendered and restructured all aspects of corporate insurance resulting in better documented and more appropriate coverage levels, as well as cost reductions of over 25%.

London, England, United Kingdom

Promoted from the USA organization to be part of the International Executive Team tasked with turning around The Body Shop International sales and profit. • Streamlined the Global Supply Chain structure, resulting in the removal of over £1 million in over-head.• Developed and implemented an open-to-buy process resulting in obsolete inventory reductions of over 80%, and overall improved inventory turnover on purchases of over £100 million in annually.• Directed the implementation an advanced forecasting and ordering tool in the UK region; a system responsible for delivering 98+% in-stock at store level.• Created and managed a Group New Product Introduction Team to manage the development process of new merchandise, capable of delivering 30% of sales per annum.• Shaped a Global IT organization that formulated, developed, and implemented a global IT strategy and plan.• Oversaw the restructure of The Body Shop International’s IT infrastructure, resulting in a transition from fragmented and out of date, to best-in-class systems and networks. The new infrastructure allowed the business to grow unencumbered by system constraints. • Directed all Global IT activity including head office and store systems (£4million annual capital spend, not including SAP execution, and a £15million expense budget).

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Promoted to Vice President, as part of a new Executive Team tasked with turning around The Body Shop, USA. The IT aspect of this role was taken on in 2001.• Turned around profit. In 1997 the subsidiary lost money; in 2001 the subsidiary made over $20 million in profit.• Reshaped organization structure and processes by transitioning the organization from a typical General Merchant hierarchy to an end-to-end supply chain, and implemented an open to buy process. This resulted in more effective buying, which contributed to the double-digit % increases in same-store sales seen over this period. • Specified and implemented an advanced merchandise planning system which introduced automatic replenishment and markdown management to The Body Shop for the first time. The new system also delivered on-shelf in-stock of 97+% and reductions of in-store inventories of over 50%.• Led the year-2000 user execution of SAP in the Supply Chain. This was the first implementation of SAP in The Body Shop worldwide, and one of the first Retail implementations in the USA for SAP. In conjunction with the merchandising system, this implementation helped achieve a system-wide inventory reduction of over 40%.• Stabilized the SAP implementation in 2001 after taking on IT responsibility, resulting in the avoidance of payroll fines, recognition of process improvements and cost reductions. • Created an IT strategic plan initiating projects that reduced existing IT overhead by circa 10%.• Strengthened general management of IT organization resulting in productive use of $9 million expenditure budget.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Directed the development of statistical forecasts for over $160M in retail sales and $20M in inventory.• Oversaw all finished goods purchasing activity, and materials planning and purchasing for manufacturing.

London, England, United Kingdom

Created and managed all processes around production of the sales forecast for Body Shop product.

Developed and maintained all store level retail sales forecasts, and tracked results on a weekly/monthly basis.

New Jersey, United States

Provided analytical, procedural and systems support to field personnel on management of premium receivables base.

Ohio, United States

Graduated with honors from 2-year program which involved four 6- month assignments and rigorous classroom work.