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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Greater Atlanta Area

• Manage business unit profitability by leading all departmental functions to ensure exceptional performance across global customer base.
• Assess and rationalize product portfolio, utilizing customer data and competitive market position to inform the development of differentiated products and services with sustainable competitive advantage that meet or.
• Evaluate the viability of existing and potential customers based on growth, profitability, collaboration, and loyalty.
• Develop business unit vision and strategy that identifies priority market and customer segments, with a global perspective.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Managed strategic coatings accounts, developing account-specific plans across four global business units.
• Led team of key account managers and sales representatives that produced double-digit sales for top customers.
• Increased year over year key customer account earnings.
• Created new platform for distributors that resulted in a reduced footprint and cost savings.
• Increased sales by 7% and margin by 6% in year vs. year comps.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Led 400 sales professionals responsible for revenue growth, sales productivity, and organizational execution at The Home Depot in the U.S. and Canada.
• Increased professional sales at The Home Depot by 20% in year vs. year comps.
• Drove multi-disciplined functional support areas to implement new pro platform.
• Hired and trained 100 new employees in 120 days and realized business plan target achievement by +110%.
• Reengineered special order and direct to customer delivery process and grew the penetration rate of these sales from 8% to 19% in six months.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Managed integration of the AKZO – NOBEL business into PPG, along with financial consolidation of the businesses, increasing sales by over 5% in the 12 month transition.
• Led functional managers and acted as project manager for integration and cost synergy identification and implementation.
• Developed key strategic programs that ensured optimal sales growth.
• Realized cost synergies of over $4MM in annual savings.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Drove sales execution, new customer growth, and margin improvement, while developing acquisition targets and new market opportunities.
• Implemented strategic sales initiatives that increased margin by 2.2% points.
• Led the reorganization of the Canadian sales team resulting in a highly-focused and productive team that increased sales by 14% in twelve months.

Louisville, KY

• Developed new pricing platforms, margin improvement tools, sales force reporting, measurement and execution through geo-marketing and sales management.
• Developed new CRM and sales force automation tools.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

• Managed finance function, while directing strategic analysis and sales force operations.

Louisville, KY

Began career with PPG in April 1998 in Cost Accounting and from 1999 through 2008. Promoted into the positions of Accounting, Business Analysis, Strategic Growth and Analysis and Manager of Finance, Credit and Pricing