Brian Pierson Email & Phone Number

Newport Beach, CA, US

Salem, OR, US

Candidate for the State Senate for District 18 in the state of Oregon. For more information please go to brianfororegon.com

New York, New York, US

Operating Partner in the Health, Wellness, Longevity, and Health Technology areas.

Park City, UT, US

Operating partner with private equity assessing and identifying business opportunities focusing on technology enabled businesses.

Irvine, CA, US

• Global COO responsible for overall operations of billion dollar enterprise. Jacuzzi is a multi-branded consumer durable good organization with Jacuzzi being the flagship brand. Brands include (Hydropool, Sundance.
• Directly responsible for strategy, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, innovation, research and development, retail store openings, safety, quality, ESG, and Information Technology organizations.
• Led and restructured global multi-site manufacturing footprint to support record growth, while driving efficiencies improving EBITDA.
• Redesigned the supply chain to support rapid growth while leveraging the buying power of the global organization. This included a full revamp of supplier agreements, selection processes, quality qualification processes.
• Crafted the strategic plan (Twenty Plus) for the business to drive profitability up by over 6.5%, plan touches virtually every aspect of the business, including material procurement, innovation, pricing strategy, core.
• Designed the inventory management programs to flex the inventory strategically during peak demand and then scale appropriately with changes in business conditions. Led the transition of a portion of the business to.

Park City, UT, US

Operating partner with private equity assessing and identifying business opportunities focusing on technology enabled businesses.

Central Point, OR, US

• Directed the strategic, operational and support elements of two of the three business units of a $300M leading aviation services business providing manufacturing, aircraft operations and engineering services in some of.
• Grew the manufacturing business by over 100% year over year through focusing the sales organization on market-differentiated capabilities. Crafted critical relationships with large manufacturers to leverage invested.
• Reduced on hand inventory levels by >20% and, coupled with an increased focus on cash management, releasing and generating greater than $40M in cash for enterprise.
• Restructured the fleet plan eliminating under utilized capital assets resulting in $6M of EBITDA performance improvement.
• Created and executed a business strategy to reinvigorate Defense Services business, end result was the award of over $400M in government contracts.

Nashville, TN, US

• Led strategic, operational, and infrastructure groups of the largest privately held SaaS based, pre-employment background screener, serving the Fortune 500 and global multinational corporations. Specifically.
• Established a cohesive management team through organizational change. Drove the team to stay focused and grew top line by 8% and improved profitability by 100 bps.
• Transformed and restructured the business, taking control of an organization that underwent serial leadership changes and varying strategies and turning it into a repeatable highly profitable growth business. The.
• Led the transaction team that prepared the business for a potential sale. Oversaw all data activities and authored the high-resolution transactional model that allowed for increased valuation of the enterprise and.
• Redesigned the software release processes and refined the software sprint process to result in a 45% increase in code quality saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in testing and speeding time to market.
• Created the senior executive customer sponsorship program to address a key differentiator for the business customer intimacy. Redesigned the approach toward customer management and drove a service based customer.

Hillsboro, Oregon, US

• Senior executive of a leading capital equipment manufacturer of Electron Microscopes, led operations, research and development, and information technology elements of the largest electron microscopy supplier with.
• Drove infrastructure and cost improvements through creation of the multi-discipline SYNERGY program resulting in overall corporate operating income improvement by 400 bps in less than one year. Increasing operating.
• Outsourced the supply chain from European based suppliers to global suppliers reducing material costs by 150 bps and significantly reducing the exposure to currency fluctuations by directing the move of all contracts.
• Created and successfully implemented a multi-year business strategy increasing overall gross margin from 39%to 45%. Unified a global team brought together through acquisition.
• Successful led the deployment of SAP business modules to improve workflow and processes.
• Designed the infrastructure plan for the company’s future growth.

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Executive for Applied Materials the leading manufacturer of capital semiconductor equipment, with revenues in excess of $10B, during my tenure served in a variety of executive positions of increasing responsibility.
• Expanded the gross margin and revenue performance of the service division from $1.6B to $1.9B and ~30% to ~32% through more efficient management of the over 2500 service engineers and the focus of upselling services.
• Headed restructuring the infrastructure of the corporation. Designed a board supported plan in excess of $300M, resulting in streamlining the fixed costs of the enterprise. Led the organization through the closure of.
• Led the company through process redesign and change management for a full Business Transformation including a full SAP implementation across 15 business units and 20 countries, the implementation was recognized as one.
• Selected to turn around a newly formed manufacturing division that was underperforming. Within six months had the group producing effectively 100% on time and increased margins in line with expectations. Was selected.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Commissioned officer in the United States Army, serving around the globe leading Corps of Engineer soldiers and programs. Led soldiers at a variety of levels up to company command (200+ employees). Gained early.
• Successfully commanded a combat engineer unit and deployed the organization to Iraq in support of Desert Storm and designed the equipment support to aid in the Kurdish Relief mission.
• Identified and selected ahead of peer group by the battalion commander to serve as a primary staff officer as the battalion adjutant as a lieutenant, a position traditionally filled by a tenured captain.

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Ms, Applied Mathematics / Operations Research

Finance And Accounting For Non-Financial Executive

Master Of Science - Ms

Master Of Science - Ms, Applied Mathematics