Global Commercial Executive with expertise developing and executing strategies that lead to profitable growth. Unique combination of general management, sales, marketing, application development and technical service experience that creates exceptional shareholder value. I understand consumer trends and listen to customers’ needs resulting in development of customer and market based new products and services. Accomplished in international business expansion and transforming commodity businesses to specialty businesses in the Health, Nutrition and Food Industries. A strong visionary leader, I have a track record of developing high performance teams that achieved world-class engagement scores, and consistently reached measurable objectives. At Roquette America, I served as Commercial Vice President, member of the Executive Team and an Officer of the Company. I held various VP positions during seven years at Cargill where I helped to transform a commodity business into a customer focused specialty business. At FMC, I supported the corporation’s food ingredients business in senior marketing and sales management positons, including Global Director of Sales. I have experience leading complex matrix systems, and have led cross functional teams spanning multiple geographies.I have a Master of Management degree from Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.