Gary Leibowitz Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Malibu, Ca, Us

Board member/advisor to Creative Visions: foundation with 20-year history of training and funding social justice documentary-makers, e.g. the 2023 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, “Navalny”

Advisor to the Consumer and non-profit sectors: leading global companies/NGOs, early-stage, fast-growing, VC-backed start-ups, and foundations dedicated to nature conservation and social justice; e.g.:o Strategic Advisor to Heineken NV on a range of strategic and operational topicso Strategic Advisor to Green Park Brands founder and leadership: growth strategies, brand building and key account sales across portfolio, including Hippeas, Reel, HoldOn and Maverickso Advisor to The Patch Brand founder and team: strategy, customer wins, growth managemento Strategic Advisor to The Sierra Club, Southern California chapter Executive Director and board: facilitating and sharpening strategic choices, priorities, trade-offs, resource allocation and executiono Board member/advisor to Creative Visions: foundation with 20-year history of training and funding social justice documentary-makers, e.g. the 2023 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, “Navalny” Advise founders, CEOs, leadership teams and VCs across the full Board and executive agendao Strategic: define ambition, goal-setting, growth acceleration or turnaround, alignment on “how to win”o Commercial: market segmentation, brand portfolio, marketing, communication, channel and customer saleso Organizational: org design/transformation, leadership, culture, capability development, performance mgmto Financial: capital raising and M&A/strategic sale consideration and evaluation

Blackfriars, London, Gb

One of the world’s largest Consumer Packaged Goods groups, with leading positions across all continents in categories from skin, hair care and deodorants to ice cream and tea. A leading acquirer and developer of high growth start-ups in prestige beauty and vitamins, minerals and supplements.• Led management and board re-evaluation and reset of Unilever’s “Compass” strategic priorities to drive growth acceleration, brand investment, capital allocation, profitability, sustainability and employer brand• Coordinate business transformation programme, delivering cost savings of over $2 billion to fund brand investment, innovation (c. $1 billion incremental revenue) and eCom capabilities (growth >30%)• Co-led architecture design and implementation of a comprehensive enterprise reorganization (operating model, org design, target and reward system, leadership culture), breaking up the group into five more agile, accountable entities• Direct and coach corporate, category and country strategy development, decision-making and tracking o Cross-category focus on ground-breaking innovation, premiumization and EM affordability o Concerted growth strategies in Skin Care; Hair Care and Foods; new growth strategy in Health & Wellness: target, acquire, accelerate and integrate early-stage brands, providing leadership and strategy coaching for CEOs and brand teams including Liquid IV and SmartyPants• Created systematic Unilever Strategy Building Block analytics and decision processes; drove more rigorous business cases, competition for investment, and strategic choices at both corporate and divisional levels• Coach and mentor a wide range of business, category and functional leaders in strategy development and performance management

A top-tier European energy infrastructure operator and pioneering global leader in renewable generation and private and public sector energy transition solutions; a Paris-based CAC-40 constituent• Advised CEO, CFO and senior leadership team on the transformation of ENGIE's strategic profile, business insight pipeline, capital market positioning and investment community engagement program for a chronically undervalued c. $35 billion market cap industry leader• Led strategic framework to enhance customer centricity (B2C and B2B) and business value, via o Improved consumer and market insights and market segmentation to drive development of competitive product and service propositions o Implementation of performance diagnostics across new operating model, focused on Client Services in discreet segments and across geographies o Focus on consumer value proposition, business commercial value and service drivers of retention/loyalty to underpin investment in business expansion• Created new processes to enhance resource allocation discipline, prioritization across BUs and alignment to strategy and financial hurdles

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Capitalized on SABMiller leadership tenure and high profile in CPG leadership and investor communities to support McKinsey’s franchise and client base, diversifying from beverages into food and personal care.Advised CEOs, leadership teams and private equity principals in the US, Europe, Asia and Africa on a wide range of strategic topics and choices:• Growth acceleration strategy based upon market segmentation, brand repositioning and equity-building, disruptive innovation, transformative or string-of-pearls M&A programs, competitive right-to-win and capability gap analyses, and cross-functional integrated planning• Portfolio re-design, spanning market segment (cohort and occasion), brand, pack and channel prioritization• Commercial effectiveness: revenue growth management, NRM, and route-to-market design• Post-merger integration, operating model and org design transformation to drive growth and efficiency• Major new market entry: full end-to-end strategic plan• Private equity due diligence leading to successful investment completion

The world’s #2 global brewer and an FMCG leader; FTSE top-5, c. $100 billion market capitalization. Acquired by AB InBev in 2016.As a key member of SABMiller’s leadership and business partner to CEO Graham Mackay, co-architected and helped drive the strategy, performance, and equity market success of one of the world’s most dynamic and value creating CPG growth stories. From a mid-sized US and African brewer with a market cap of $15 billion, we built a global powerhouse via both M&A and winning organic growth methods, with leading positions across the US (#2), LatAm (#2), China (#1), Australia (#1), Africa (#1) and C&E Europe (#1).Built and led a global Business Performance Insights hub to drive the corporate strategy agenda across value levers: consumer insights, brand portfolios, price architecture, revenue management, channel, distribution network competitiveness, competitor coverage, regulatory agendas, supply chain and cost. Created the industry’s premier investor relations program. Built enduring relationships with leading institutional investors on the basis of personal trust and candid insights. Transformed equity market position, from mistrusted, misunderstood, discount-rated (-20%) newcomer, to premium-rated (+10%), global leader. Share appreciation > 600%, shift of c. 40% of share ownership.• Numerous M&A transactions small and large, including US$5+ billion deals across LatAm, US, Asia Pacific, Africa and Europe.• Focus on US beer: small, high growth premium and craft brand development, and distribution network strategy, competitiveness, portfolio alignment, investment and execution effectiveness• Managed Chairman, CEO and CFO successions, full generational change of the company’s senior management and renewal of the board of directors.• Keynote presenter and investor group host at numerous Wall Street and City conferences• Named repeatedly in Institutional Investor top rankings for “Best Investor Relations”, 2005-2014

London, London, Gb

Windsor, Berkshire, Gb

Tracked divisional performance metrics and drivers for external disclosures. Earned recognition for progressive and transparent communications with analysts and investors. Participate in divisional strategy review and M&A transactions, representing shareholder perspectives. Delivered Board presentations on investor perspectives and dividend policy. Prepared credit rating agency presentations. Performance ranked within management top quartile.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Senior Manager, Strategic Investments and M&AManaged cross-functional teams to evaluate businesses with strategic/product roadmaps complementary to Intel’s; executed strategic equity investments, outbound and inbound licensing, and M&A transactions; led due diligence to ascertain value drivers and commercial prospects. Led negotiations on private equity terms, valuation, and Board and management team composition. Maintained VC and banking relationships for deal origination and fundraising.

London, Gb

Principal (1998-2000), Associate (1995-97) Targeted, diligenced, structured and negotiated private equity or debt financing for leading companies in the beer, beverages and food sectors. Invested development capital in early-stage to mature companies; uses of proceeds to develop new products, manufacturing capability, distribution channels, or to rationalize operations. Negotiated and managed a region-wide multi-project investment vehicle with Carlsberg. Executed 12 investments worth $227 million over four years, including five brewers as well as Hortex, Poland’s largest agricultural produce and juice company with complex political dynamics. Highest ranked Principal (of 6) in 1998 and 1999 in fund’s best performing team. Conducted strategic and financial planning for investee companies. Held investee board directorships in Russia, Poland and Lithuania, participating in executive recruitment and forming shareholder control groups to restructure corporate governance, effect cultural transformations and displace insider interests.

New York, Ny, Us

Financial Analyst, High Yield Finance and Restructuring Group (#1 in market segment)Structured and modelled leveraged acquisition financing, recapitalization plans, and other high yield debt financing; developed and modelled thorough valuation, recapitalization, rate of return and business operations analyses. Corporate due diligence and US bond prospectus drafting.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Finance

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Finance

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Economy Of Industrial Societies