Christopher Gabriel Email & Phone Number

CHARACTER + LEADERSHIP + FUNCTIONAL SKILL• Transformative marketing and operations executive with a track record of success in demanding, high-responsibility roles. • Growth-minded, conscientious, disciplined, emotionally intelligent, and highly organized. • Obsessed with solving complex strategic and organizational challenges and driving profitable growth. • Calm under pressure and tenacious during hardship. • A values-based, servant leader who is deeply committed to the personal welfare and professional development of all members of his team. • Works easily with others, nurtures relationships, establishes mutual trust, leads with humility, and strives to reach consensus. • Well-rounded functional expert with proficiency in marketing, strategy, product management, operations, sales, and finance. MARKETING, STRATEGY, PRODUCT MANAGEMENT & SALES• Owned strategy for products/services used by 35m customers, generating $1b in client revenue; led massive redesign effort, which increased sales $300m. • Built an international marketing team from scratch, created detailed growth strategies, implemented much-needed structure and process, and grew profit 20% in two years. • Developed and executed strategic plans which netted $3m unbudgeted sales, $7m capital investment, and qualification trials for $25m in new growth opportunities. • Grew $42m retail category 12% with no loss of margin. OPERATIONS & FINANCE• Recruited by executive leaders to stabilize a failing $40m site nine-months post-acquisition. • Stopped the bleeding ($500k loss to break-even in 3 months), rebuilt management team, retained critical customers, reduced costs, and positioned site for long term success. MILITARY • Managed 90 senior personnel, oversaw the training of 17k recruits annually, gave speeches to groups of 400-5k, designed/built/led training program for SEALS/BUDs/SpecOps recruits. • Led planning for all amphibious operations of an Expeditionary Strike Group consisting of 6 warships, 2k sailors and, 3k marines during an 11-month deployment in the Persian Gulf. • Directed operations of warship/helicopters, and Joint Interagency Task Force boarding teams during two counter-narcotics deployments, led division of eight, owned shipboard NSA-controlled crypto management program.

Listed skills include Navy, Military, Security Clearance, Cross Functional Team Leadership, and 36 others.