Craig Stratton Email & Phone Number

Greenville, Sc, Us

Independent Entrepreneur Creating New Marketing Strategies, Sales Processes & Associated Logistics.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

• Executive level oversight of company• Create, communicate, and implement the organization's vision, mission, and overall direction.• Oversee complete operation in accordance with the direction established in the strategic plan.• Provide visionary and strategic leadership sufficient to accomplish the tactical plan of the business.• Direct the financial goals, objectives and budgets.• Maintain awareness of both external and internal competitive landscape, opportunities for expansion, customers, markets, new industry developments and standards.• Direct staff, including organizational structure, professional development, motivation, performance evaluation, discipline, compensation, personnel policies, and procedures.• Evaluate the success of the organization.• Compose marketing materials, business plans, capital expenditure spread sheets, pro-forma financial analysis, reports, internal processes and formulate terms of agreements and contracts. • Developing and demonstrate strategies, equipment, and rapid analytical methods to manage quality biomass logistics within economic constraints throughout the feedstock supply chain.• Oversight of legal, accounting, investment partners and risk management.• Team building, coordination of logistics and with external bio-energy technology partners.

Lebanon, Ky

• Executive level oversight of company• Create, communicate, and implement the organization's vision, mission, and overall direction.• Oversee complete operation in accordance with the direction established in the strategic plan.• Lead, guide, direct and manage organization sufficient to accomplish the strategic plan of the business.• Maintain awareness of both external and internal competitive landscape, opportunities for expansion, customers, markets, new industry developments and standards.• Evaluate the success of the organization.• Compose marketing materials, business plans, capital expenditure spread sheets, pro-forma financial analysis, reports and internal processes. • Designed marketing materials, business plans and internal processes. • Delivered presentations to electrical utility executives and county officials in Kentucky and Tennessee. • Awarded letters of intent for placement of municipal waste conversion facilities in fourteen (14) counties. • Awarded letter of intent from East Kentucky Power to purchase renewable energy.

Lawrenceburg, Ky

Real Estate Development & Home Builder • Executive level oversight of new single family residential subdivision development from inception including business plan and market research for financial institution approval.• Delivered presentations and gained approvals from city/county zoning boards, engineering departments, financial institutions.• Designed branding & identity, marketing materials & tools for realtors’ use, directed marketing program, event planning and media organization.• Collaborated with engineering, excavation and utility firms from design through infrastructure completion of real estate development.• Oversight of P&L management.• Managed the building processes of multiple speculative and custom homes, collaborating with outsourced subcontractors.

Lexington, Ky

• Strategic development of new property, casualty and life insurance agency business from its inception.• Executive Level insurance agency operational management, staffing, growth strategies and customer satisfaction.• Trained, managed & motivated office staff.• Managed CRM data base, leads, follow up, sales activities, etc.• Oversight of P&L management.• Developed strategic processes for continual increased revenues while maintaining above average retention of existing clientele.• Awarded various district & regional awards and trips.