Cecily Kovatch Email & Phone Number

Spring Lake, NJ, US

Trenton, NJ, US

Shape and lead the Authority’s efforts to ensure the State’s long-term competitiveness in the innovation economy through offering and delivering attractive, effective and relevant innovation and investment products to the market. Foster partnerships internally and externally to drive innovation leadership and job creation for the state of New Jersey. Focus.

Hoboken, New Jersey, US

• Independent consultancy helping organizations grow quickly & profitably through innovative problem solving with a focus on sustainability and commercialization.
• Trained, advised or coached over 100 early-stage cleantech startups in emerging economies for the US Department of State’s Global Innovation through Science & Technology Initiative (GIST) as a VentureWell consultant.
• Senior Advisor to GiantLeap Capital.
• ESG Advisor to SPAC, resulting in merger.
• Sustainability Strategy Lead at The Sorium Group, helping new companies on the frontier scale and mature companies pivot.
• Reinvented the way companies do business by leveraging the latest digital technologies as Industry Ecosystems & Innovation consultant for Conduent Digital.Fueled for Growth is a subsidiary of Fueled Solutions LLC.

Hoboken, NJ, US

Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurial Thinking (MGT 103), Sr. Innovation (IDE 400/401/402), & Corporate Entrepreneuring (EMT 752)

San Jose, California, US

• Developed circular business models at Logitech, a leader in engineering, design and collaboration, to reduce waste, extend the life of products and components and help achieve climate positive operations.
• Developed subscription service for B2B devices to provide customers with best-in-class tech while taking back devices for reuse
• Launched US B2B Trade-In program to take back and reuse devices and facilitate the logistics to execute circular business models
• Co-created program to reuse RMA devices internally to test performance of returned product and increase revenue from new device sales.
• Evaluated, tested, and launched TBYB circular business model, reducing rate of returns, utilizing refurbished stock, and reducing e-waste.

Liberty Lake, Washington, US

Discovery and development of new business models and revenue sources for the smart meter, smart cities provider. Developed cloud-enabled service to provide energy, water & emissions data monitoring to C&I customers in order to detect and correct unintended electricity and water waste and meet sustainability goals.

Morristown, NJ, US

• Led the corporate innovation program to find new organic growth opportunities for the renewable energy provider and eWaste processor.
• Led cross-functional team in finding the groundbreaking solution to reuse residue material in the US, one of the company's largest sustainability initiatives, with potential to reduce the amount of ash going to.
• Evaluated emerging technology (mining, material separation, and sorting tech) and processes worldwide, resulting in the design and build of a first-of-its-kind material separation pilot plant to reclaim and reuse.
• Developed off-take plan and financial model to turn waste material into a revenue-generating opportunity for use as construction materials.
• Commercial scale TAPS plant now operational and processing 400k tons of ash per year.
• Member of the Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (CEWEP) Residues Working Group.

Morristown, NJ, US

• Innovation:
• Created, launched & led corporate innovation program. Identified, piloted & executed numerous technical & process-oriented solutions across the company.
• Transformed waste materials into revenue-generating opportunities.
• Built Knowledge Sharing platform to share best practices across the fleet of 42 power plants. Marketing:
• Created company's marketing department and directed all marketing activities for the world's largest waste-to-energy (WTE) producer.
• Created and launched customer-focused website for B2B & B2G sales efforts.

New York, NY, US

Guidepoint Global acquired Standard & Poor's Vista Research in 2009. Instrumental to divestiture and integration of the two companies. Led the global Energy/Industrials & Basic Materials research practice as well as the Retail/Consumer research practice for the independent research firm. Developed new products to diversity offerings.

New York, NY, US

• Built and led Energy & Industrials research practice, growing it to 20% of company revenues in two years.
• Revived Retail/Consumer research practice, growing it from 8% to 22% of company revenues in two years.S&P sold Vista Research to Guidepoint Global in 2009. Instrumental to divestiture and then integration of Vista.

New York, NY, US

• Developed strategy for US Large Market Sales team within the Global Corporate Card Division.
• Created methodology to realign and expand sales force coverage to increase revenues with minimal business disruption. Rolled out new acquisition strategy which led to $42.4MM in signings in first 12 months.

New York, NY, US

• Managed $30 MM P&L for territory of 13 Hess Express gas stations & c-stores on Long Island. Led team of 13 direct and 80 indirect reports. Increased sales 77% over plan by leading team in their execution of monthly.
• As Category Manager, was responsible for General Merchandise category for all 800 company-owned retail locations. Conducted national vendor negotiations and buying. Increased gross profit 12% in slow retail environment.

US

• Analyzed future megatrends to determine long term strategic positioning and new product development for the specialty chemicals manufacturer.
• Evaluated potential acquisition targets in electronics chemicals industry to meet those future trends.
• Modeled water usage across the corporation and developed plan to minimize water use (circular, closed loop) leading to improved business continuity of manufacturing facilities during droughts.

Houston, Texas, US

• Account Development, Account Maintenance, tender preparation, and contract negotiations for 30 oil company clients in the Mid Continent Region. Developed creative solutions to complex oil production issues increasing.
• Increased market share from 0% to 15% in first 4 months.

Houston, Texas, US

• Completed special projects for US Land senior management team.
• Analyzed industry economic conditions and created compelling roadshow messaging and presentation materials during downturn in the oil industry.
• Created succession planning database to assist operations managers with staffing and training.
• Developed Personnel Guidebook for Field District Managers.

Houston, Texas, US

• Led recruiting team in hiring 250 field engineers per year.
• Merged 7 business line recruiting departments into one companywide unit, creating cohesive company image on campus, increasing efficiency and employee fit, and reducing recruiting costs.
• Reduced JFE attrition from 34% to 12% in 2 years saving $4.5mm annually.

Houston, Texas, US

Wireline & Testing field engineer for the world's largest and most technically advanced oilfield services company. Ran open hole and cased hole wireline logging services on over 300 oil rigs in Texas. Received Wildcatter Award for identifying undeveloped oil & gas in Brazoria County, TX for Texaco.

Mba

Ba, Geology And Environmental Studies