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Charlotte, NC, US

Ithaca, US

Professionally transitioned organizational leadership to the incoming Chief Executive Officer.

Ithaca, US

Founded in 1894, Student Agencies, Inc. (SAI) is the oldest independent student-run company in the nation. Its experiential learning mission is to provide Cornell University students with an extraordinary opportunity to gain practical experience starting and running businesses while earning a substantial portion of the cost of a Cornell education. SAI.

Ithaca, US

Founded in 1894, Student Agencies, Inc. (SAI) is the oldest independent student-run company in the nation. Its experiential learning mission is to provide Cornell University students with an extraordinary opportunity to gain practical experience starting and running businesses while earning a substantial portion of the cost of a Cornell education.

Student Agencies Properties, Inc. (SAP) is a non-profit IRC 501(c)(2) organization wholly-owned by the Student Agencies Foundation (SAF). The assets of SAP include all of the organization's real estate assets, including the Student Agencies Building, an award winning seven-story, 60,000 square foot, 100-bed mixed-use luxury student residence opened in 2021.

Ithaca, NY, US

eLab is a student accelerator program at Cornell University that helps students launch businesses. Established in 2008 by the Student Agencies Foundation in collaboration with Entrepreneurship at Cornell, eLab has worked with hundreds of students in turning concepts into real businesses.

Ithaca, New York, US

The Student-Run Business Association (SRBA) is a nonprofit Association dedicated to shaping the future of higher education and positively impacting society by promoting, connecting and cultivating experiential learning-based student-run business (SRB) programs. Created in late 2018, the Student-Run Business Association was established by eight founding.

• Red Pearl Advisors is a strategic growth consulting and international M&A advisory firm focused on providing global growth strategy development, execution and transaction advisory services to small and middle market.
• Served as a sell-side advisor for small and mid-market clients from North America, Russia, and South Korea.
• Served as the primary consultant on strategy projects for North American clients.

Recruited by the Founder/CEO of Harris Black International, a small traditional phone-based market research company (< $ 18M in revenue, < 100 employees) to join the company as its new ‘Internet Director’ (i.e. employee #1) and build the world’s first internet-based market research company. We achieved that objective by growing annual revenues to $ 260M.

Maintained full responsibility for all aspects of the firm’s corporate development and M&A activities. Specific responsibilities included designing and executing the firm’s global expansion strategy by analyzing the worldwide market for market research services, identifying high-priority regions and/or country markets, identifying desirable in-market.

Maintained full P&L responsibility for a $ 50 million revenue operating group comprised of the Technology & Telecommunications Research, Automotive & Transportation Research, and Products Solutions (branded solutions) business units. With the acquisition of Wirthlin Worldwide in late 2004, and a subsequent internal reorganization, the integrated business.

Maintained full P&L responsibility for an operating division comprised of the following business units: Technology Research, CPG Research, Automotive & Transportation Research, General Markets Research, Financial Services Research, and Advanced Analytics/Marketing Sciences. The division delivered $ 22 million in revenue at 27% net operating profit in.

Maintained full P&L responsibility for an expanded Technology Research business unit encompassing all technology and eBusiness-related work conducted by Harris Interactive. Specific responsibilities included rebuilding the firm’s technology research fulfillment resources, re-launching the firm’s existing research capabilities to the technology markets, and.

Maintained full P&L responsibility for a new horizontally-focused eBusiness Research business unit as part of a company-wide reorganization intended to shift corporate focus to vertical and horizontal markets. Specific responsibilities included integrating and leveraging all of the firm’s eBusiness-related products, services and capabilities into an.

Assumed full P&L responsibility for a new syndicated products business unit in the spring of 1999 as a result of personal efforts to champion a strategy focused on leveraging the scalability, high margins and branding opportunities associated with syndicated market research products. The new business unit delivered $5.5 million in revenue in fiscal year.

Hired to lead all aspects of the firm’s development activities relating to its new Internet-based market research model. As this was effectively a start-up situation, taking a small traditional (phone-based) market research company and using it as a platform to pioneer the use of the Internet as a new data collection medium for market research, initial.

Responsible for all aspects of strategy, product development, sales and marketing, operations, facility planning and hiring for a start-up aftermarket repair and field service business. Generated first-year revenues in excess of $ 6 million.

As an analyst in the office of the Corporate VP of Operations, provided internal consulting services to General Signal’s 15+ business units ($2 billion in annual revenue). Completed both strategic and tactical projects dealing with mergers & acquisitions, operations and productivity.

Dublin 2, IE

Worked on numerous operations and systems consulting engagements for clients in the telecommunications, aerospace and defense, transportation and pulp & paper industries.

Mba, Strategy And Operations

Bs, Operations Research & Industrial Engineering