Martin Roper Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Richmond, Va, Us

LL Flooring (NYSE: LL) is a $1Bn national specialty retailer of flooring, primarily focused on hardwood, laminate, vinyl and engineered flooring sold through over 380 stores and direct via website. Joined board in 2006 prior to IPO in 2007.

Tampa, Fl, Us

Independent Director for Private Company. Member Compensation Committee. Financial Information Technologies, LLC (Fintech) is the leading solutions provider for beverage alcohol management and regulatory information resource with a suite of profit-building products and services for alcohol distributors and retailers.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Led organic growth, through brand innovation, strategic diversification and operational excellence, for America’s largest craft brewer ($900M revenue) within highly competitive, fast-moving regulated industry, generating industry-leading shareholder returns.- Stock price rose eighteen-fold: 20% CAGR ($8.75 to $230 a share).- Grew Net Revenue (9% CAGR), Net Income (14% CAGR) and EPS (16% CAGR), increasing the size of the organization from 110 to 1500 employees, while preserving a unique entrepreneurial culture.• Built strong leadership team through hiring, development, mentoring, and empowerment. • Led all public company activities including earnings calls, investor and analyst presentations, and board meetings.• Doubled Samuel Adams volume. Revived brand after period of stagnation, building largest craft seasonal and variety programs. Launched Sam Adams Light, Samuel Adams Rebel, Samuel Adams Utopias, Samuel Adams Barrel Room and Samuel Adams '76.• Developed Twisted Tea, the largest 5% alcohol flavored malt beverage, with 17 consecutive years of growth.• Developed Angry Orchard Cider, which became the #1 hard cider in U.S. market within 12 months, driving cider category growth of 500% over two years and finishing with 58% share of category.• Developed Truly Spiked and Sparkling, resulting in #2 brand in hard sparkling water segment. • Expanded international partnerships, generating significant revenue streams in Europe, Australia, Asia, and North America, growing international business 22% CAGR over 17 years.• Led the acquisition of Pennsylvania Brewery ($400MM invested), tripling production capacity.• Introduced Lean tools with significant improvement in line efficiencies and reduced costs.• Redesigned supply chain to reduce wholesaler inventories by 50%.• Initiated savings/efficiency programs that cumulatively eliminated $145M of waste.• Experienced leader in crisis management. Led first large-scale recall in industry for glass inclusion (2008).

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for all operational aspects of Brewer, including all finance, accounting, purchasing, manufacturing, logistics, legal, HR, and information technology functions. Operational and strategic presentations to board of directors. Executive management committee member. Chief Operating Officer (1997 – 1999). Added sales responsibility in 1999. President & COO (1999 – 2001)• Identified, negotiated, acquired, and integrated first production scale brewery (Cincinnati) into organization, culture, and systems. Improved operating efficiency by 40% in one year, reducing cost per case by 25%.• Reduced company cost of goods and improved gross margin to 59% from 51%.• Restructured accounting function. Improved close from eighteen to six days, moved AR to EFT with $10M cash impact.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for all aspects of supply chain, including contract partners, materials purchasing and production planning, customer service, order fulfillment, and distribution and logistics. Hired to solve supply chain, customer service and cost issues, and prepare all operational aspects for IPO.• Upgraded the company’s supply chain during three-year period with annual growth rates of more than 30%, with improvement in costs, customer service, and quality.• Negotiated and developed key vendor programs with annual savings of more than $6M, representing more than a five percent reduction to cost of goods sold.• Restructured logistics network to improve delivery service and reliability. Reduced freight cost by over 10%.• Purchased SAP and led the implementation in four months, a benchmark for successful SAP implementations. Invited to speak at Sapphire to share rapid implementation model. Used in small company SAP marketing materials.

General Manager with full P&L responsibility of a $25M division, manufacturing metal and wood store fixtures and back-room shelving. Reported to company president (SteelWorks, Inc.) and owner (Vanguard Investments), and responsible for profitable operation and growth of division. Director of SteelWorks, Inc.• Transformed business after previous failed management buyout led to pre-packaged bankruptcy.• Generated sales growth of over 70% per annum, improved profitability by over $1M per annum.

Directed all business operations of natural fiber processor (non-woven textiles), manufacturing packaging materials, insulator pads, filters, and erosion control blankets. $19M in sales. • Profit before tax improvement of $3.9M in two years.• Restructured financing, including interest, debt forgiveness, and debt for equity swap.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Member of case teams consulting for clients in UK and Europe. Responsible for research, analysis, presentations, and client team management.

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Meng, Manufacturing

Ba, Engineering