Senior operations leader responsible for building and leading a diverse team of over 120 people across sixproduction and agriculture facilities. Lead the Supply Chain, Extraction Manufacturing, Planning, Engineering, Quality and Construction functions.

Reporting to the CEO & President, I lead a wide range of business initiatives that drive the overall success of the organization, including: new market entry, capital allocation, operational efficiencies, organizational change, and business model design. I partner with senior business and function leaders to simplify and solve unstructured problems and deliver results.

Direct government relations and business strategy across targeted markets for a leading national health services company. • Oversee all government relations activities across twenty states, including strategic planning, business development and risk management.• Proven success working cross-functionally with corporate and operations leadership to develop and lead strategies that drive business growth and market access in challenging regulatory environments. • Co-Led company’s COVID-19 federal government relations task force, reporting to the CEO and working cross-functionally with the COO, CLO and CSO. • Lead the company’s policy development at the federal level and serve as the primary point of contact for all third-party allies and stakeholders, including trade associations, advocacy organization and think tanks.• Develop executive-level briefs, distilling complex public policies into actionable business recommendations for audiences including executive-level leadership.• Represent the company before state and national trade associations as well as before lawmakers and regulators.• Manage a dozen external government relations consultants.

Consultant on over fifty projects for a boutique government relations and political consulting firm.• Managed all facets of multiple corporate, non-profit, city, state, and issue-based government relations campaigns simultaneously, balancing competing client interests while driving each client’s agenda.• Expertise in community engagement relating to land use and local regulations.• Worked with clients to create targeted grassroots advocacy campaigns to shape public policy, drive business and/or mitigate risk.• Supervised project staff and subcontractors, streamlining workflows, and re-prioritizing tasks daily.• Engaged community stakeholders and built broad-based support for clients’ projects.