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New York, Ny, Us

Industrious delivers the world's best workplaces by making the office a welcoming, empowering, and delightful experience. From private offices to suites, meeting rooms, and desks, we make it easy to find a workspace that works for you, whether you want to use an office every day or just a day or two a week. Founded in 2012 and recognized as one of America’s 500 fastest-growing companies by Inc. Magazine, Industrious offers flexible workplaces at more than 200 locations in over 65 cities globally. For more information, visit industriousoffice.com.

Fractional CMO, advisor, and marketing consultant to consumer startups. Select Clients:- Pinch | Fractional CMO (Consumer marketplace - at-home medspa services; Seed stage)- Sound Advice | Fractional CMO (Mobile app making professional financial advice accessible for Gen Z) -PartySlate | GTM/Product Marketing Consultant (Event planning marketplace; Series A)- Gabbi | Consultant (Digital health platform aiming to make late-stage breast cancer obsolete; Seed stage) - Otter | Fractional CMO (On-demand childcare marketplace; $24M Series A from Sequoia & a16z)

Chicago, Il, Us

Oversaw 15-person marketing team including brand, product marketing, comms (PR, partnerships, influencer, social), creative (design/copy), and lifecycle/CRM (retention).FIRST HEAD OF MARKETING: Over 5-year tenure, built out the entire brand marketing org from seed to Series C ( $100M+ in revenue) during a period of hyper-growth.MARKETING LEADER: Hired, developed, and led marketing team, agencies, and partners across brand, product marketing, comms (PR, partnerships, influencer, social), creative (design/copy), and lifecycle/CRM (retention). Worked closely with the exec team and BoD to drive the business.BRAND AND COMMUNICATIONS: Stood up Tovala’s first-ever brand org which led all brand creation, development, and management spanning PR, Creative (TV, FB/IG, Direct Mail), Social/Influencer, Partnerships, and integrated campaigns. Led a strategic rebrand in 2021. Highlights: Landing Oprah’s Favorite Things, launching our first TV spots, partnering with incredible chefs and brands, and launching our first give-back program. PRODUCT MARKETING: Built product marketing function responsible for customer research, product and feature GTM/adoption, and customer feedback loops. Responsible for launching continuous menu innovations and new hardware products. GROWTH & ACQUISITION: Spearheaded earned and paid channels to drive efficient meal subscription growth (ex. TV, Direct Mail, 3rd-party retail (QVC & Amazon, Affiliate) and scale channels while diversifying customer segments and audiences. Frequently partnered with Growth org to ensure performance metrics were achieved.RETENTION / LIFECYCLE: Managed the email/CRM function that was responsible for engaging, retaining, and reactivating a large subscriber base via email, SMS, and in-app messaging. BUSINESS OPERATIONS: Owned annual marketing budget and forecast. Introduced internal operating procedures to drive rigor. Supported the rollout of company-wide OKRs and quarterly planning.

Work From Anywhere, Remote, Oo

Toptal (https://www.toptal.com/) is a network of the world’s top 3% of software engineering, design, and finance talent -- available on demand to help companies accelerate, adapt, and scale. With $100+ million in annual revenue and triple-digit growth, Toptal is the largest fully distributed workforce in the world and has worked with over 2,000 clients to date, including Airbnb, J.P. Morgan, Zendesk, Artsy, IDEO, and Pfizer.Partnered with growth, sales, design, engineering, product, and operations to drive high-impact digital customer experience initiatives to maximize growth.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Oversaw acquisition and brand marketing strategy across 1 consumer and 2 B2B product lines.Led go-to-market strategy for new enterprise product line. Built marketing operations infrastructure that included Salesforce, Hubspot, Google Analytics and Infer. Implemented full lead-to-sales process between Marketing and Sales.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Base (ACQ Zendesk) is the next generation CRM. Over 10,000+ companies use Base cross-platform, Post-PC software to manage sales and customer relationships across all their devices. Leveraging new patterns of usage with ubiquitous mobility, Base offers substantial productivity gains. Venture backed by Index Ventures, Social+Capital, RRE Ventures and others.

Chicago, Il, Us

Kaleidoscope is the world premiere integrated design and realization agency headquartered in Chicago with locations in New York, UK, and most recently, Los Angeles. Kaleidoscope’s multi-disciplinary teams believe in Co-Creation or collaborative partnership with clients to apply consumer-insight-driven design strategies to brand communication. Iterative Design Thinking®, the agency’s proprietary approach to design, includes the use of Rapid Ideation, Iterative Prototyping and Rapid Research to quickly gather and build on feedback from key stakeholders and consumers, bringing best practices to market. Kaleidoscope specializes in the areas of brand strategy, visual identity, product design, structural and graphic packaging design, and realization, which encompasses design implementation, artwork production and prototyping.

Best Online Universities LLC develops top quality higher education websites to help students accomplish their career and education goals. Our websites directly connect students with accredited online degree programs located throughout the United States. We provide useful information to visitors, while simultaneously generating highly qualified leads for online universities. Our websites contain a robust catalog of current information as well as links to over 1,000 accredited online degree programs offered by both non-profit and for-profit institutions.

Boston, Ma, Us

Acquired by Follett in 2016, ValoreBooks is the students' #1 marketplace to rent, buy, or sell affordable college textbooks. The ValoreBooks online marketplace offers inexpensive textbooks, up to 90% off the list price, to students from over 10,000 booksellers across the country. ValoreBooks' mission is to be the best textbook marketplace for college students, offering the lowest prices and best customer service around. Learn more at www.ValoreBooks.com.

New York, Ny, Us

Merrill Lynch is one of the world’s premier providers of wealth management, securities trading and sales, corporate finance and investment banking services.

Bs, Business Administration - Finance

Integrated Marketing