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Delivering meaningful projects that improve processes, drive financial performance and achieve shareholder and community value. Whether it involves better use of data to inform decision-making; visibility to inventory and orders; applying Lean business concepts to office workflows; or acting as a temporary leader within an organization, all engagements benefit from 12 years' experience in management consulting and over a decade in c-level executive leadership positions.Representative project activities- Acquisition due diligence, integration and operational value lever identification and implementation- Industrial and consumer products business strategy- Operational process improvements in manufacturing, transportation, distribution, fulfillment and end to end workflows- Distribution and fulfillment center design and material handling selection and layout (2+ million sqft to-date)- Partner selection for 3PL services, freight forwarding and call center services- Contract manufacturing- ERP selection and implementation- Inventory management, reduction and cashflow improvement- Workload planning and management to optimize labor usage

Partnering, as an operational subject matter expert, with some of the brightest financial minds out there on turnaround and profitability initiatives in highly complex business situations. MERU brings an impact-first, cash-oriented financial mindset to every client - and they bring strategic partners (aka functional veterans in that specific industry) onto select projects to drive rapid results.Turnaround; profitability; distressed; restructuring; cashflow; vendor management; inventory reduction; sourcing; project management; workflow; business information; KPIs; dashboards; data analysis

San Francisco Bay Area

Mission Pets is a private equity portfolio company and the market leader in pet lifestyle products, offering the best functional, fashionable products for dogs, cats, and small animals.Mission Pets was acquired by SportPet Designs.

San Francisco Bay Area

Building a multi-platform brand from the ground up – delivering on-time manufacturing, ongoing ex-factory cost reduction, transportation and distribution management and visibility, high-touch customer service, Series A and bridge execution, strategic Series B modeling, cash and asset management, capital budgets and GAAP compliant accounting processes.

Ghana

Recruited by former Cranium co-founder to partner in establishing for-profit direct retail distribution of consumer products and services (batteries, lighting, solar power, human-powered irrigation, cook stoves, reading glasses, etc.), enabling low-income people living in rural areas without electricity or running water to provide for their families. Sourced products from all over the world and optimized last-mile delivery network into the bush.

Greater Seattle Area

Established the 5-year Xbox (and other hardware) supply chain strategy and delivered expanded and integrated supply chain capabilities to improve sales and operations planning (S&OP), manufacturing and distribution. Contributions included integrating a global team and incorporating lean value stream mapping to enable the ability to ship any order from any distribution location world-wide.

Greater Seattle Area

Built ground-up supply chain, logistics, customer service and ERP systems for an award-winning toy and game start-up. Earned Toys R Us Vendor of the Year - two years in a row.Cranium was acquired by Hasbro.

Ms, Industrial Engineering / Operations Research

Bs, Mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa