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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Strategy toExecution Partners is a boutique consultancy firms that assists CEOs adn leaders develop and deploy strategic direction through an innovative process. The ongoing improvemnt process begins with an assessment exercise and moves to visioning and strategy development. The process then moves into execution and governace mode with a set of tools and scorecards to measure the progress and effetivenss of the plan execution. The model allows leadership teams to deploy transformative change while managing the current day to day operations. The last step in the process is the annual review and calibration process which sets the ongoing direction and objectives for the new year ahead. It becomes a valauble part of a companies operating system and high performance culture.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Bedford Funds is an opportunity zone private equity fund currently raising $2.0 billion to deploy through an investment strategy designed to generate exceptional investor returns net of all fees, costs, carry and federal income tax. ​Bedford is not a real estate fund, rather its focuses predominately on operating technology companies that will scale nationally into dozens of opportunity zones across the U.S. This strategy not only builds the scale need to successful exit assets but also provides a critical catalyst of good jobs and large scale investments allowing local Opportunity Zone leadership to begin rejuvenating their communities from within.

Minneapolis, Charlotte, Chicago And Los Angeles

The Imagine Group is North America's leading provider of visual communication solutions for retailers with the objective of assisting our partners in Driving Consumer outcomes. The company has annual revenue of approximately $500MM supporting BlueChip retail partners drive great brand experiences through a highly efficient supply chain solution that leverages its proprietary technology to deliver localized marketing solutions. As the CEO, my accountabilities were to work with Executive team and the Board in setting strategy and executing the business plan annually.

Louisville, Ky

As the COO of RSCS my accountabilities included the Supply Chain organization that supported the procurement and exclusive supply of all food, packaging and equipment for the store in the KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut systems. Each brand had dedicated SC teams that worked directly with them and sat on the Executive teams of the YUM Brand teams.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

As President of the US Food Service division my accountabilities were to lead and manage a$1B division of HJ Heinz focused on servicing the Food Service Channel in the US. Our team worked to create innovative culinary solutions to help restaurants and distributors created differentiated product solutions that enabled them to create outstanding dining experiences at great value leveraging Heinz manufacturing and logistics network.

Pittsburgh, Pa

In this capacity I was responsible for the customer facing organization responsible for creating strategic partnerships that drove solutions to drive category growth and channel solutions. The US Consumer Products team drove growth consistently in HJ Heinz largest global operation with $4B in sales annually.

- Held various sales leadership roles in the United States and United Kingdom to include: Vice President of Sales UK & Ireland, Vice President of Strategic Accounts, Vice President of Channels, Vice President of Strategic Sales Services, and Vice President of HUSA.

My career at Crown BBK spanned almost 8 years and included various roles from VP of IT, Group VP of Sales and finally EVP of Marketing. Crown was at the time, one of the largest independent sales and marketing companies in the CPG industry focused in the Southern California market.

My career at IBM included several sales and marketing roles spanning new business marketing to large account sales. My primary role was to advise customer on how to leverage technology solutions to drive competitive advantage and business efficiency.

My tenure at P&G was in the packaged Soap division and my repsonsabilities were managing both a sales territory of stores and key accounts.

Ba, Business Administration

Executive Program