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Greater New York City Area

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York City Metropolitan Area

Providing technical and intellectual property guidance to the Big Idea Ventures teams and cohorts.Big Idea Ventures is a venture capital firm with teams in Singapore and New York, combining capital and partnership to support and grow the world’s most compelling plant based food companies and protein alternatives. Our first fund is the New Protein Fund (US$50M), anchored by major institutional investors including Temasek Holdings (global investment firm based in Singapore) and Tyson Food.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Ronkonkoma, Ny

Increased Innovation speed and efficiency by establishing a Project Management Office for development and commercialization of food and supplement innovation. Further increased innovation efficiency by rebuilding and replacing inefficient Global Stage Gate process created by a consultant.- Created a strong PMO by transforming an existing team that had a poorly defined role into true Project Managers. - Improved consistency and efficiency of the new Stage Gate process by utilizing internal consulting techniques and engagement in the design.- Led a team of eight highly engaged and motivated Project Managers managing over 130 consecutive innovation and strategy projects.- Designed and configured a global Project and Portfolio Management tool (Accolade from Sopheon).- Implemented consistent measures of portfolio health across all geographies, segments and brands.- Achieved a 20% increase in key measure of “Freshness Index” in first year.

Ronkonkoma, Ny

Tarrytown, Ny

SECTION MANAGER – ON-DEMAND COFFEE AND CANADA BEVERAGES RD&QRecruited to lead US and Canada based team of 11 Product, Process, and Package Developers to develop and commercialize innovation for both high growth and mature businesses with annual revenue of $800 million.ON-DEMAND COFFEE (ANNUAL REVENUE: CANADA $215M; US $190M)Team launched +25 new innovations per year. Achieved profitability and increased revenue over 500%. Influenced business strategy and overcame large enterprise culture for processes-driven decision making to deliver results for a extremely competitive business that required an entrepreneurial and fast-paced approach. - Launched 50+ Tassimo co-branded products with world-class companies such as Starbucks, McDonalds, Tim Hortons, and Tetley. Navigated wide range of corporate cultures and adapted approach to achieve success.- Developed and launched #1 Innovation of 2013 as named by Beverages magazine: 3 sku platform of superior quality café-style beverages on the Keurig K-Cup platform ($40M revenue in first 5 months),- Achieved 8% share of on-demand coffee by leveraging legal counsel approved strategy to develop and start-up 6 sku’s of Keurig compatible single serve cups prior to key patent expiration ($80M revenue in first year); 9 additional sku’s developed and launched in first year.CANADA COFFEE AND BEVERAGES (ANNUAL REVENUE: CANADA $395M)Led total Canadian Beverage agenda inclusive of product and packaging for roast & ground coffee, soluble coffee, and all cold beverages. - Launched 12 cold beverage innovations utilizing strategies that maximized impact of resources.-- Delivered $3M productivity.

Glenview, Il

Led Global team of 11 R&D technical leaders as well as internal and external legal counsel to improve Kraft’s enterprise-wide ability to create, protect, and leverage technical intellectual property. - Headed Deloitte Consulting initiative in interviewing 18 global stakeholders to identify core areas of strength and improvement opportunities- Created licensing program to enable both licensing in and out of technical IP for Kraft Foods Global - Developed and implemented 15 online IP training modules, strategy tools, and patent assessment approaches- Created cultural shift across global RD&Q organization for creation and utilization of IP

Tarrytown, Ny

Developed strong knowledge of cereal grain cooking, forming, toasting and coating. Leveraged knowledge to identify and implement efficiency strategies and consumer liking improvements.- Optimized fruit freeze drying conditions to eliminate critical consumer quality complaint- Identified $8MM productivity savings by leading fuzzy front-end ideation and development long-term productivity strategies for ready-to-eat cereals - Developed 1st hand knowledge of fruit and nut growing, harvesting, grading and processing through field and factory visits in Costa Rica, France, California and Washington State

Tarrytown, Ny

Developed and implemented engineering technologies and utilized creative skills to identify step-change productivity programs. Delivered over $30M in productivity projects and $3M in capital avoidance.- Developed and implemented cold-fill technologies for ready-to-drink beverages enabling $3M capital avoidance.- Led start-up team and wrote Process Operating Guide for $10M capital project to enable thermal hydrolysis and improve soluble solids extraction yield of coffee grounds.- Developed instant coffee intensification technology (US Patents 6,120,831 and 6,399,131)- Developed and implemented statistical process control improvements to reduce coffee process variation for improved quality and costs (Published Paper at 18th International Scientific Colloquium on Coffee, Helsinki Finland)

Glenview, Il

Completed original research and developed deep technical knowledge of key cream cheese unit operations. In order to transition cream cheese manufacturing from an art to a science.- Overcame Philadelphia FREE™ processing hurdles (U.S. Patent 5,656,320) - Created reaction kinetics model for cream cheese fermentation; applied model to improve fermentation unit operation process control and finished product quality- Developed sequence of operation, start-up, and qualification of unit operation for $2.6M capital project

New York, Ny

Invented, optimized and patented (US Patent 9,788,670) use of a magnet in combination with a mechanical connection to create repositionable picture frame hanger. Self-funded the development and launched three SKU's.Achieved nation-wide brick & mortar distribution in Ace Hardware plus online distribution on The Grommet and Amazon