Chad Cunningham Email & Phone Number

Orlando, FL, US

Orlando, Florida, United States

• DON’T QUIT is one of the fastest growing sports nutrition brands featuring Clean / Healthy Sports Energy + Hydration Drinks, Protein Drinks, and coming soon: Adult Nutrition Shakes. DON’T QUIT is backed by Keurig Dr..
• Responsible for inventory management, procurement, production planning, order processing, and logistics
• Responsible for developing innovative clean/sports energy drinks, clean/sports protein drinks, and other clean/sports nutrition products (CPG)
• Direct and manage multiple innovation partners to develop and enhance product formulations
• Collaborate with company leadership to develop strategic business plan
• Lead strategy and manage the company's Amazon and DTC operations

Orlando, Florida, United States

• Provide operations consulting services to LA Libations beverage brands (kids hydration, plant-based milk alternative, carbonated soft drinks, non-alcoholic mixers, RTD coffees and teas) including:
• Brand development and formulations
• Production planning and execution
• Customer service and order fulfilment.
• Co-packer selection and management

• Lead operations team responsible for inventory management, procurement, production, order processing, and logistics
• Responsible for developing innovative clean, healthy energy drinks, protein drinks and sports supplements (CPG)
• Lead packaging design in collaboration with marketing team and CEO
• Collaborate with operations team for product testing and procurement of raw materials
• Manage the company's Amazon operations
• Manage the company's website

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Led procurement and production efforts to launch the X2 Performance® brand nationally in select CVS Pharmacy stores during COVID (Q3 2020); products included energy drinks and pre-workout powders and shots.
• Assisted in the development of X2 Performance® energy drinks and execution of marketing programs sold in more than 20,000 Subway restaurants nationally (2015 - 2021).
• Develop, execute and manage digital marketing strategy including email campaigns, social media, content development, webcasts and SEM increasing monthly website visits to 22,000, a 150% increase, increasing eCommerce.
• Partner with external consultants to develop and execute consumer research resulting in re-branding the product and company.
• Leverage consumer research learning and other key metrics to rebrand and re-platform the company website improving integration with operations, marketing and sales resulting in an average website visit duration of.
• Successfully develop email strategy, creative design, copy and execution of all marketing email campaigns, resulting in an open rate double the industry average.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Managed public relations agency resulting in 88MM earned media impressions in 2013.
• Successfully developed strategy and oversaw third party agency execution of a brand awareness campaign resulting in an increase of 12,500 Facebook fans in six weeks.
• Successfully secured and managed Ironman triathlon sponsorship agreement.
• Planned and managed operations and logistics of corporate sponsorship activities at Ironman triathlon events.
• Managed all corporate website operations to include e-commerce installation and management, customer service and content development strategy and editing.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Led research and development as well as secured a patent-pending status for a new compound to be commercialized as a unique natural sports energy product.
• Secured NSF Certified for Sport® certification for company’s pre-workout product.

Fort Carson, CO

• Served as the advisor to the battalion commander on all matters pertaining to indirect fire, radar management, airspace de-confliction, information operations, civil-military operations, public affairs and State.
• Successfully managed 62 reconstruction projects worth $16 million throughout Kirkuk Province and 67 reconstruction projects worth $3.5 million in Mosul and southeast Ninewa Province.
• Successfully managed 41 security contracts with a monthly payroll of $2.4 million employing more than 10,000 concerned local citizens across Kirkuk Province and developed the transfer of the contracts from US to Iraqi.
• Supervised 13 vocational programs (Civil Service Corps) hiring and training more than 1,500 unskilled Iraqis in general construction, road construction, canal clearing, and agricultural techniques.
• Performed duties as the assistant operations officer for three months prior to deployment to Iraq responsible for operations, training, and deployment readiness of approximately 900 military personnel.
• Ranked in the top 10% of captains on the battalion staff by commanding officer.

Fort Hood, TX

• Responsible for the combat employment, training and welfare of more than 20 military personnel and equipment worth more than 12 million dollars; served as squadron projects officer during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• Trained a previously inexperienced troop fire support team on operating the Bradley Fighting Vehicle which resulted in the first Bradley gunnery qualification among the squadron fire support teams.
• Successfully incorporated a newly developed digital mortar fire control system, fire support team, and mortar section and was the first in the squadron to complete training and conduct successful live fire exercises.
• Observed and adjusted more than 600 live mortar and artillery rounds during a live fire exercise at the National Training Center which were more than any of the other fire support teams in the brigade combined.
• Handpicked as squadron projects officer over 20 peers by the squadron commander to manage and execute seven reconstruction projects worth more than $2 million.
• Led more than 150 combat patrols through an al-Qaeda stronghold southeast of Baghdad. As a result, platoon secured a main route for the squadron and other organizations to conduct operations.