Responsible for Sales, Marketing and Operations for North America, Central American and Select international businesses.

Vice President of Sales – Quiksilver Young Men’s (North America) (2007-2013)Responsible for planning and executing sales for all wholesale distribution channels for the largest division (Young Men’s) within the Quiksilver family of brands for North America. • Lead sales executive for Quiksilver Apparel in North America in all channels of distribution.• Lead for all Quiksilver branded products in the specialty retail channel and Quiksilver license stores, maintaining the brand’s #1 position. • Lead executive overseeing the sales force, trade shows and sales meetings. • Navigated through rapid growth periods and challenging economic times by providing vision, leadership, innovative relationship building with retailers, and a strong focus on brand and company goals. • Executed sales planning strategies to meet overall growth, brand position, and profit objectives with key retailers in North America.• Collaborated with marketing and product teams to ensure trend right products and brand messaging. • Managed and forecasted monthly and quarterly sales projections.Key competencies include:Sales | Sales Management | Marketing | Executive Leadership | Strategic Analysis | Sales Forecasting | Expense Control | Market Awareness | Fashion | Wholesale Channel Distribution | Apparel | Action Sports | Sporting Goods | Channel Segmentation | Strategic Brand Management | Staff development | Inventory Procurement

Assumed dual role, overlapping with other divisions within Quiksilver inc, responsible for Quiksilver Wintersports Sales for the Americas region, including all snow products from Roxy, Roxy Girl, Quiksilver, Quiksilver Boy's and assorted accessories including goggles and helmets.• Established Quiksilver and Roxy as credible snow brands. • Consistently achieved sales and gross margin plans while implementing cost savings.• Lead executive for all things “technical snow” including managing brand efforts, sales force, sales meetings and trade shows.• Worked closely with merchandising, design, visuals and marketing team ensuring proper products and brand messaging. • Executed initiatives with key retailers increasing top-line sales and profitability.Key competencies include:Sales | Sales Management | Marketing | Executive Leadership | Strategic Analysis | Sales Forecasting | Expense Control | Market Awareness | Fashion | Wholesale Channel Distribution | Apparel | Action Sports | Sporting Goods | Channel Segmentation | Strategic Brand Management | Staff development | Inventory Procurement | Wintersports

Responsible for all sales for the Quiksilver Boy's division for the Americas region.• Aggressively grew this division to $55M.• Aggressively executed sales planning strategies to meet overall growth, brand position, and profit objectives with key retailers in North America.• Worked closely with merchandising, design, visuals and marketing team ensuring proper products and brand messaging. • Established Quiksilver Boy’s as the premium number one brand in all major national department stores including Nordstrom’s. • Restructured the sales force to include boy’s specific reps and aggressively pursued kid’s specialty boutiques. • Built strong relationships in the department store channel. Key competencies include:Sales | Sales Management | Marketing | Executive Leadership | Strategic Analysis | Sales Forecasting | Expense Control | Market Awareness | Fashion | Wholesale Channel Distribution | Apparel | Action Sports | Sporting Goods | Channel Segmentation | Strategic Brand Management | Staff development | Inventory Procurement | Children's Apparel

Vice President of Sales and Marketing – Tony Hawk Clothing (2000-2003)Lead executive to launch the Tony Hawk brand after it was acquired by Quiksilver. Responsible for sales and marketing with major input on product for the Americas Region. • Lead executive to launch the Tony Hawk brand within Quiksilver Inc. including hiring employees and reps, establishing sales and distribution plans and marketing and creative direction. • Rapidly grew from 0 sales to $14M in the Americas region in the first two years. • Aggressively took market share from other kid’s brands across multiple channels of retail.• Involved in global rollout of brand. Key competencies include:Sales | Sales Management | Marketing | Executive Leadership | Strategic Analysis | Sales Forecasting | Expense Control | Market Awareness | Fashion | Wholesale Channel Distribution | Apparel | Action Sports | Sporting Goods | Channel Segmentation | Strategic Brand Management | Staff development | Inventory Procurement | Children's Apparel | Skateboarding

Founded, owned and operated the Skate/Snow retail store M-Pire. Including a skatepark at a separate location.

Responsible for the snow outerwear sales of the Swag, Prom and Twist brands for the US.

Sales rep for various action sports brands in the midatlantic area including Nice Skate Shoes, Lamar Snowboards, Swag and Prom Outerwear and Arnette eyewear.