Responsible for all sales, marketing, and development activities for Stride/ Diverse Office Supply. A 40 year old Albuquerque based consumer products company having national presence & distribution in the Mas Market, On-Line, School and Office Products industry. Headquarter accounts include: Walmart, Amazon, Staples, Kroger, and many others. Both a Tier-2 and Tier-1 Diversity manufacturer and distributor. Stride is an internationally recognized and awarded woman owned "WOSB", HUBZone and DBE certified company employing adults with developmental delays. Find out more about the "Stride Story" at www.strideinc.com

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Creator of the Boston based Acceligent Group in conjunction with MIT and WPI venture forums offering hands-on Sales, New Product Marketing, Channel Development, and Management Resources to wildly innovative companies and their amazing ideas. Sigificant work with the Jewelry and transportation industries.

STANLEY WORKS, New Britain, CT Stanley is the leading worldwide brand, manufacturer and marketer of tools, hardware, and office products. Led this initiative for the office products industry, home, consumer, and construction, In charge of the entire multi-million dollar Office Products business at Stanley Bostitch. P&L, all Account Sales, Marketing, Product Development and Brand positioning for this group. Managed in conjunction with International global supply chain, finance, manufacturing, distribution, and shared services.. • Revitalized the Bostitch Brand with major National Accounts and turned business around from loss to 10% gain within first 16 months. Investigated and proposed a new International Business strategy.• Honored with “Most Innovative Product of the Year” award, National Wholesale Association.

A 165-year-old family-owned global brand specializing in traditional New England manufacturing and distribution of high quality fine paper products.• Managed sales, marketing, and new product organizations that developed and distributed over 50 new products and 3 new product platforms. Transformed and Transitioned Southworth from a dusty old company to a vibrant and relative competitor.

MWV is the global brand leader of consumer products in School, Office, OEM packaging and packaging solutions. Directed the P&L and Global Brands supporting all Sales, Marketing, and Product Development. Worked directly with Landor, NYC to create a hugely successful new image and brand position for Columbian products. Successfully launched our new brand nationally and internationally with all major distributors and customers. Incredible multi-million dollar growth! Managed multiple out-sourced support groups.

A global leader in consumer products; paper, vinyl, and pressure sensitive technology. Avery is a $7B conglomerate of outstanding companies merged throughout the 1980’s and 90’s. Received numerous promotions and awards in Management, Sales, Marketing, Product Development, Brand Positioning, and Channel Management. Developed dozens of new products including "EarthSmart", the first cross-category, recycled/ recyclable (green) product group in the history of the company- and first to market. Thoroughly familiar with product development- paper, vinyl, bound books, case made products, including: wirebounds notebooks, filler, pads, bound books, journals, ring binders, dated goods, printing, packaging, and all phases of manucaturing. Knows how to bring products to market!