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New York, NY, US

New Haven, Connecticut, US

Embedded senior advisor to CI’s VC-portfolio of startups in the clean tech and energy transition markets. Hands-on collaboration partner for founders and C-level leaders to build and execute commercialization and growth initiatives and advance strategic opportunities.

Enact Advisors provides actionable go-to-market commercialization and growth strategy services for emerging clean tech and energy transition firms. We provide hands-on, multi-disciplinary support for projects and engagements of all sizes. Learn more at enactadvisors.com.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Shaping the narrative of the clean energy transition with an industry leading community solar developer.Dimension Energy is a leading community solar developer, owner, and operator. Dimension has executed more than 450 megawatts (MW) of community solar and invested $400 million into clean energy assets since its 2018 founding. The company plans to invest.

Sandy, Utah, US

• Vutility is enabling transformative energy insights at scale for leading global organizations. In my role as Chief Marketing Officer, I lead the business development, marketing, inside sales and sales operations teams.
• NREL Industry Growth Forum Outstanding Growth Stage Company - 2023
• EDP Energy Starter Participant - 2023
• Smart Open Lisboa Accelerator Participant - 2023
• Tracxn Emerging Startups - 2023

Sandy, Utah, US

• Vutility is the leading provider of real-time, high-resolution, energy data monitoring, enabling businesses to optimize energy consumption and improve operational efficiencies. Using our award-winning, innovative and.
• AWS Sustainability Cities Accelerator Participant - 2022
• Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award for IoT Energy Monitoring Solutions - 2021, 2022
• Energy Tech Challengers Finalist - 2021, 2022

Baltimore, MD, US

Strategy and execution leader for the Innovation, Growth, and Digital Initiatives team at a Fortune 100 leader in clean energy, home services, and America's largest energy supplier. Incubating and commercializing new products and services in home energy management (HEMS), home services, and smart home/consumer IoT. Driving business growth and evolution by.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Valhalla, NY, US

• (Experiences at ConEdison Solutions, group later acquired by Constellation) Direct report to VP of Retail Energy Supply business line. Oversaw branding, marketing strategy, campaign execution and customer experience.
• Managed multimillion-dollar annual marketing budget, leveraging a variety of media to capitalize on market opportunities
• Increased year over year sales 33% through the development of new marketing collateral, creative testing, updated sales scripting, call center training and improved tracking and analytics
• Improved call center close rate on new sales, retention and winbacks with cost-effective customer and agent incentives
• Developed Wordpress-based, responsive design landing pages, enabling improved campaign tracking and greater creative control and end user editing via CMS BRAND EXPANSION
• Nurtured thought leadership position in market through numerous activities, including e-newsletters, peak demand notifications, blog posts, educational training, media coverage, expo attendance and event sponsorship

Norwalk, CT, US

• Direct report to CMO at a high-growth, Inc. 500 and Forbes “100 Most Promising” leader in renewable energy. Led the development of strategic relationships with key partners, while managing a $2M+ annual marketing and.
• Took over partnership marketing in 2015, growing channel from less than 5% of volume to nearly 40% of total sales at present.
• Industry award winner in 2014 for creating “The Free Energy Challenge” - a customer referral incentive that generated thousands of incremental low-cost enrollments within its first 12 months and stimulated an ongoing.
• Partnered with direct marketing channel leads to build an omni-channel campaign management strategy, which led to A/B testing verified improvements of over 15% to net conversions. BRAND DEVELOPMENT
• Introduced "Understandabill", a SAAS-based energy efficiency platform to deepen customer relationships with personalized content and recommendations.
• Formed marketing partnerships and strategic alliances across several "essential services" categories including residential solar, home automation, communications and home warranties.

Stamford, CT, US

• Reported to the VP of Product at a $1.5B loyalty services and customer engagement company. Developed marketing and product strategies, performed competitive analyses and research studies, while identifying strategic.
• Launched and managed SAAS platform for small/local business marketing solutions. Services included turn-key mobile websites and social media management.
• Executed against condensed timeline to complete market analysis, vetting and contracting with service providers and marketing agreements with key distribution partners.
• Led marketing and creative strategy to reduce CTA by over 50% using A/B control testing.ID Theft Protection Solution Enhancements:
• Sourced cutting-edge, app-based credit card fraud detection solution that compared GPS-location of phone to card transactions.
• Oversaw integration of service into existing ID Theft protection programs.

Stamford, CT, US

• Managed Product Development team and project groups to create new services. Conducted primary customer studies and collected market research to inform product enhancements and identify market opportunities. Developed.
• Led development of an innovative cell phone warranty program from ideation to live in-market.
• Upon launch, the new service outperformed the control product by 35% in live market testing.
• Built business plan and market research and sourced multiple new vendors to fulfill benefits.
• Managed cross-functional internal and external resources to create and file service contracts, develop administration processes and SLAs, map customer experience and run QA testing, and build website and marketing.
• Drove the formation and ongoing management of the enterprise mobile strategy task force.

Stamford, CT, US

• Two-year MBA rotational program at leading customer engagement and loyalty solutions provider. Rotational experiences included project management, senior leadership consulting, account management and business.
• Created B2B marketing strategy that resulted in nearly 200% of annual revenue goal for a high growth business line. Cultivated thought leadership position using webinars, white paper research publication, newsletters.
• Led winning RFP responses to sales opportunities with nationally recognized brands in the financial services and retail space – notable wins include L.L. Bean and Lockheed Martin data breach business.
• Conducted organization wide analysis of new client and product launch processes, uncovering numerous internal inefficiencies. Recommendations led to formal project management training, increased utilization of Six.

Storrs, CT, US

• Multi-semester participant in prestigious and competitive graduate business student program. Leveraged Six Sigma project management methodologies to deliver finance and marketing consulting projects for the school’s.
• Developed a comprehensive 4P marketing plan to diversify the client verticals for the Zoologic e-learning platform
• Conducted detailed ROI and SWOT analyses, incorporating extensive primary research
• Determined CTQ features using VOC exercises such as in-depth interviews, focus groups, surveys and data-miningPitney Bowes:
• Worked directly with the Director of Growth to support a Fortune 400 company’s growth strategy plans by analyzing business model, core competencies and competitive landscape
• Developed stochastic based enterprise risk management and decision making tool using @Risk software for PB executive team

Colorado Springs, CO, US

Served group of 40+ Christian college students from across the country in summer-long leadership and personal development program. Responsibilities included activity and service project organization and student mentoring.For more information on the Navigators Summer Training Programs, please visit.

Willimantic, Connecticut, US

• Supervised and led customer service and teller operations at the largest and highest volume branches of one of Connecticut’s biggest local banking and financial services companies. Exceptional performance and peer.
• Focused staff training efforts on improved product knowledge, customer acumen and personalized, consultative selling
• Enhanced sales disciplines led to team exceeding 200% of target for investment product referrals and in-branch cross-sells of banking services, credit card, online banking, consumer lending and insurance products.
• Collaborated with branch management and corporate marketing team to create local marketing and in-branch promotions to expand customer awareness and meet monthly/quarterly sales goals
• Oversaw consumer lending applications and loan closings, debit card issuance, activation and replacement, overdraft administration, branch security and fraud prevention
• Mentored team members and managed branch staffing activities, including interviewing candidates, employee evaluation, discipline and shift scheduling

Mba, Finance, Management Consulting

Ba, Economics, Marketing