Advisor to corporate and nonprofit boards and management • Brand strategy, marketing, advertising, and public relations.• Organizational restructuring.• Recruiting and human-resource development.• Project management.• Content development.• Vendor evaluation, on-boarding, and management.• Nonprofit fundraising.

Operations: Moved foundation from Baltimore suburb to New York City to be at the center of fundraising, collaborative opportunities, and research.Finance: Left with USD 8 million surplus from break-even funding. Professionalized accounting systems in collabortion with leading nonprofit accountants Kiwi Partners.Human resources: Topgraded staff and transitioned successfully to fully remote work during Covid pandemic.Brand strategy: Created of “Prime of Life” brand platform around the spectrum of early onset neurodegenerative diseases that includes PSP (progressive supranuclear palsy) and several related diseases.Marketing and PR: Raised public awareness of PSP and other rare but incurable, largely untreatable, and inevitably fatal neurodegenerative diseases that often strike in middle age. Communication of the key takeaway that neurodegeneration is not just a disease of the elderly.Fundraising: Developed new approaches for direct mail and email solicitation. Expanded planned giving program. Outreach to foundations and large philanthropies. Major donor cultivation. Growth of volunteer fundraising events.Venture philanthropy: Established for-profit partnerships in the private sector in recruitment and marketing for clinical trials.Research: Expanded Venture Grants program for early career investigators in areas such as tau immune therapy, drug discovery, genetics, patient care, and diagnosis and biomarkers.Cooperative programs: Collaborated with other brain-disease nonprofits in research and patient outreach.Patient support: Overall supervision of support services for patients, their families, and other caregivers.Professional outreach: Education of physicians and allied healthcare professionals.

General management of the firm including financial management, business acquisition, and new ventures.• Key role in building firm from startup to 100+-employee global design and branding consultancy.• General management of account direction, project management, finance, production, legal, human resources, and facilities.• Business development including prospecting, pitches, proposals, and closing.• Negotiation of profitable, long-term contracts with major corporates.• Created Studio Manager proprietary internal project-management system.• Co-creator of Living Brand® brand strategy process.• Managed intellectual property including creation, registration, and defense.• Overall management of key client relationships.• Supervision of finance, accounting, and legal functions.• Real-estate acquisition and management, lease negotiation, and construction contracts and management in New York City, Portland, Oregon, and Vermont.• Management of media relations and publicity. Web-site content management.• New-venture creation and management including: > Establishment of Geodsx joint venture with Aliagroup of Mumbai, India; > Ownership interests in craft brewer and manufacturer of cycling equipment and apparel; > Establishment of joint venture to create branded product with a leading direct marketer of consumer products; > Negotiation of seed investment in kiosk concept aimed at new mothers from a global manufacturer and distributor.

Started boutique design firm with major corporate clients in industry and finance.• Business development including prospecting, pitching, proposals, and closing.• Financial, accounting, banking relationships, legal, and facilities.• Negotiated and supervised remodeling of Fifth Avenue studio.• Project management.• Copywriting.

Head of corporate PR reporting to the Director of Public Affairs with duties including:• Fielding all press inquiries.• Writing and distributing press releases.• Assisting CEO with preparation of briefing materials.• Managing events and functions including the opening of new printing facilities.• Writing and editing of the house organ.• Managing a staff of PR specialists.• Managing relationships with family ownership.

Columnist and business-beat reporter for major metro daily. Wrote weekly advertising column with commentary, creative coverage, interviews with leading executives, account shifts, and media developments. Coverage of major business stories in the paper's circulation area.