Jason Gscheidmeier Email & Phone Number

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton-Marion Area

• Helping people unlock the greatness in themselves and their organization is a blessing and my calling. As a Vistage Chair, I help serve and guide CEO’s/Presidents/Business Owners/Executives using a non-competing peer.
• best practices and learnings are shared,
• challenges divided,
• and individual and collective growth happens.Vistage is a 45,000 worldwide CEO/Executive/Owner member organization that utilizes a peer-based growth model where small group member’s:
• Share best practices and challenges,
• Advise, problem solve, and support each other (a friendly board of directors),

Hickory/Lenoir, North Carolina Area

Across my decade of leadership at von Drehle, I played a pivotal role in fueling 89% revenue growth. As the COO, I headed the enterprise operations strategy, plan, budgets, and 15-member leadership team managing ~680 employees.► To drive executive team impact, I aligned sales, marketing, IT, and operating strategies and advanced leadership capabilities.

Hickory/Lenoir, North Carolina Area

• I drove the company’s sales and marketing strategy, 22-member commercial team, and sales budget.► I formed a sales and marketing leadership team and led them in applying analytical insights to forge a new, long-term.
• Made room for higher-value proprietary offerings by eliminating 100+ SKUs in the paper product portfolio.
• Developed Transcend™, an industry-leading proprietary dispensing product brand.
• Optimized sales capabilities to sell a more sophisticated value story.
• Retooled and overhauled marketing and branding to align with the new strategy and market positioning.
• Transformed sales practices and positioned sales reps as strategic advisors to business owners and distributors. ► Through integrated sales and marketing strategies, grew Jan/San Transcend™ sales to 28% of sales, which.

Over 6 years in leading roles, I was instrumental in tripling the EBITDA, growing revenue 35% and sales 22%, and integrating 2 acquisitions. As the VP of Sales & Marketing, I owned commercial strategy development and execution, as well as sales and marketing operations, teams, and best practices.► Building a massive pipeline of high-potential, profitable.

• ► Almost doubling the EBITDA, I turned around financial performance:
• Guided the development of data analytics on manufacturing performance and costs for all production lines.
• Redesigned the enterprise product profitability model for better accuracy and predictability. The new model facilitated adjustments to pricing, product mix, quoting lead time, sales product cost modeling, and the sales.
• Cut manufacturing waste by revamping raw material specifications and sizes, production scheduling, and the lamination process.► I elevated sales 22% and the EBITDA 118% through the acquisition and turnaround of a.
• Integrated and trained key employees to ramp up production.
• Expanded days and shifts of manufacturing operations and added new production lines.

• ► To mitigate the loss of our largest customer comprising 20% of total sales, I led the integration of an acquired company’s operations:
• Launched a temporary third-party manufacturing supply chain while the new equipment was being delivered, installed, and set up.
• Integrated manufacturing equipment, suppliers, raw materials, and supply chain practices.
• Trained all operators on the new equipment, product quality requirements, and customer and market intelligence.

Contract Manufacturing and Food Service Division

Electrical Design and Development Engineer in GE's CT Medical Imaging Equipment Division

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba