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Blaine, Minnesota, US

Oakdale, Minnesota, US

• Responsibilities Ran the Americas operation of the Bibliotheca Group including the US, Canada, Brazil, and Latin America Partners Entities and acted as member of corporate executive team. Supervised multi-site.
• Transferred 3M team Library Systems team move and carve-out from 3M new US headquarters within months of sale ensuring a swift exit and fostering positive morale
• Charted Americas organization structure, chose management team, defined out roles and responsibilities, sales compensation program, staff bonus program, and drove execution throughout operation.
• Engineered post transaction customer communications initiative to eliminate the potential for customer defection and ensure that the company drove market narrative.
• Ensured transition and renewal of reoccurring government service contracts.
• Devised and implemented significant operating expense budget savings.

• ResponsibilitiesLed the Library business through corporate divestiture and sale process from inception through carve out while resuming leadership of global businessAchievements
• Formulated and presented divestiture plan to the Chief Executive Officer and Corporate Operating Committee including likely outcome range. Gained corporate agreement to the plan.
• Interviewed and choose investment banking team to lead external market efforts to key strategic buyers and equity firms.
• Built and organized relevant content for Confidential Information Memorandum, investor presentation, and standalone P&L forecast.
• Handpicked leadership team to represent the business to potential investors, pulled them into the confidential sale process, and ensured focus on the key objectives.
• Headed the sale presentation and due diligence with 9 potential investors over a seven month period

• ResponsibilitiesDirect global strategy, operational plan, and team to deliver global growth, cost, and cash objectives for the global Library Systems business, a hardware, software, service business.Key Accomplishments
• Developed clear strategy to leverage market position & brand to maintain core business and penetrate fast growing market adjacency. Developed comprehensive product vision, key strategies and multi-year product roadmap.
• Took a legacy lumpy hardware business and created an agile software services business focused on delivering predictable SAS, Service, & other reoccurring products.
• Created and built $15MM + business in 3 years (3M Cloud Library). Launched milestone plan for staged funding, reported progress out to executive management, and met milestone expectations. Created team structure based.
• Drove rebranding strategy to align business promise with the aspirational needs of key decision makers in core market
• Remade library ebook market landscape by pioneering several pilots with 4 of the big 5 publishers and bringing all to the market within two years.

St Paul, MN, US

• ResponsibilitiesLed the team charged with developing and executing the marketing, sales, and operational plans, and for this corporate crown jewel.Achievements
• Drove sales shift from product push focus to end user solutions focus by rewarding specification behavior, promoting technical seminar approach, and orchestrating e-business optimization.
• Drove US launch of major acquisition that opened major category opportunity. Coordinated approach sped channel engagement, accelerated account conversions, and led to exceeding year one forecast.
• Developed, sold, & directed e-business shift from informational sites to a holistic solutions oriented community to drive customer awareness, conversion, & retention to realize tens of millions in opportunity.
• Developed a penetration & resourcing strategy for 4 unconventional growth opportunities worth $500 MM in market potential and gained management buy in.
• Crafted channel strategy to target niche partners to extend product / market reach. $5 MM in growth.

St Paul, MN, US

• ResponsibilitiesDirected global strategy, operational plan, and global business team to deliver growth, cost and cash objectives for this global business.Achievements
• Exceeded top line forecasts of 7.5% growth and 32% profit growth in difficult economic and supply environment.
• Developed strategic and tactical objectives for the five product categories based on market lifecycle analysis.
• Set clear targets, prioritized top projects, and aligned resources to speed delivery of key project milestones.
• Developed global strategy to double the protective business in 3 years and gained approval on large scale capital expenditure and acquisition plan to expand in Asia.
• Generated the strategy and gained corporate approval to expand the masking Scotch™ Blue branding to sustainably revitalize the industrial masking line.

St Paul, MN, US

Accelerated the delivery of high priority commercialization projects through direct leadership, cross functional engagement, & coaching.

St Paul, MN, US

Led cross functional team to achieve operational plan, profit delivery, product commercialization, portfolio management, and market penetration for this global business.

St Paul, MN, US

Directed sales & marketing plans, & training for Adhesives Division through international subsidiary network.

Mba, General Management

B.A., Jackson School Of International Studies