Uptrend Labs is an advisory firm that assists PE firms and SaaS enterprise software businesses in achieving maximum growth potential by focusing on product-led growth and M&A strategies. Uptrend Labs differentiates itself with its ability to support end-to-end across the entire investment lifecycle - from strategy/ideation to technology diligence to value creation/software development. The team consists of experienced operators at scale with access to global expert partners in digital, SEO/branding, software development, SaaS contract negotiations, and cloud hosting/migration.

Responsible for digital product development, technical infrastructure, business management platform, and software engineering for a commercial P&C Insurtech startup

Executive Forum is a highly engaged community of executives from leading corporations who share a passion for "what's next" to drive the business growth of tomorrow. Since its formation in 1995, the Executive Forum has grown to over 400 members who are the top-most leaders at market moving companies, run portfolios for the most innovative PE firms and serve as directors on boards — public, private and non-profit. Admission to the Executive Forum is based upon a rigorous nomination and review process. By design, approximately half the EF members are President/CEOs, and the others are at the COO, CFO, CMO, CIO and VP levels.

Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) is an expert network that operates a membership-based platform that provides independent ad-hoc consulting services to business professionals around the world. Competencies include advising Investment, technology, and consulting firms on state of the industry for technology verticals, best practices for technology implementations, and market positioning for strategic product portfolios.

Drove $45MM digital business transformation program for the post deal acquisitions for North American Paper and Packaging business. Responsible for migrating legacy systems to strategic MES, SAP applications portfolio and digital initiatives across all plants and manufacturing facilities. Led Service Delivery with managed service providers, system integrators, and internal COE’s to deliver roadmap and system lifecycle improvements. Responsible for day-to-day IT service operations and support. Enable team alignment to global IT operating model across all IT functional areas. Led business relationship management of Finance, Legal, Manufacturing, and Shared Services to execute program delivery against global strategic corporate plan. Managed several carve-outs and divestitures of North American business.

Parallel (formerly Surterra Wellness) is a leading, global company that is pioneering human wellness through the benefits of cannabinoids. Parallel is one of the fastest growing cannabis companies in the world with vertical operations in Florida,Texas, Nevada, and Massachusetts, a developing international footprint in EMEA. Leading game changing technology innovation for a hyperscale global $300M medical cannabis startup company. Created future state cloud operating environment, 24/7 operations framework, IDAM Architecture, and CI\CD pipeline capability that meets dynamic B2C \B2B business operation’s needs. Responsibilities include AWS\Azure buildout (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), Devops, Network, Cyber Security, ITOM, and Support across 62 retail and global corporate footprint.

Advised Fortune 500 Clients on IT strategy, IT technology solutions for data center, digital transformation, network, and cyber security projects. Created future state Technology Road Maps.

Responsible for global infrastructure transformation and information security operations for an $8.5B apparel manufacturer of iconic brands such as Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Izod, Speedo, and Van Heusen.

Consultant to the Coca-Cola North America IT Shared Services organization supporting $21B NA bottler community. Evaluate new business requirements to drive technology adoption and cloud transformation for the Coke One North America Strategic Roadmap.

Led Technology Services Delivery and Information Security (CISO), IT Compliance, Cloud Computing Engineering, and IT Operations for a 7x24 fortune 200 high transaction volume $24B insurance organization supporting 5,500 employees, 75,000 remote sales agents, and 10 million policyholders.