Experienced entrepreneur and product leader with over 20 years of experience in operations and product development management across multiple industries, including e-commerce, hospitality, food tech/ag tech, restaurants, food supply chain and distribution. Led cross-functional and international teams of designers, engineers, QA analysts, sales & marketing consultants and business analysts to design, develop and launch new web and mobile products from the ground up. Managed the entire product life-cycle and used design thinking and lean start-up methodologies to uncover customer needs and find product-market fit. Skilled at analyzing operations to evaluate performance of a company and its staff in meeting objectives, increasing productivity and maximizing its return on investments, and to determine areas of potential cost reduction, program improvement, or policy change.Major Accomplishments• Launched Supply Chain Marketplace – Envisioned, developed and launched first-of-its-kind wholesale B2B e-commerce marketplace for the $670 billion US food distribution industry that at its peak had thousands of restaurants transacting with over 500 suppliers carrying millions of products on the platform. • Fundraising – Raised millions in funding for the first ever e-commerce food distribution marketplace from a venture capital firm, angel investors and a government agency.• Rapid Customer Onboarding – Signed up and on-boarded over 50 major food distribution companies and farms in the Mid-Atlantic region within five months of product launch which well exceeded the timeline to onboard such customers.• Nominated for the 2012 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.