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Focusing on growing food service and retail sales. Working on developing and launching brand extensions to accelerate brand and revenue growth.

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Provides a full suite of client services for emerging CPG brands.• Guided brands through successful GTM strategy, product development, ingredient sourcing, operations, Amazon, and eCommerce strategy.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Grew the brand presence from concept to store shelves in six months and from 0 to 1000+ stores doing over $2 million in sales.• Spearheaded rebrand and development of a strategic plan for a new product launch that became a top seller within 18 months.• Devised and implemented a comprehensive marketing strategy increasing brand awareness to a top 10 PB brand on Amazon while growing DTC sales.• Forged strategic partnerships with suppliers to ensure consistent ingredient supply and while keeping gross margin steady.• Led successful Kickstarter and WeFunder campaigns to raise several rounds of capital and eventual acquisition of the business in 2020.

Portland, Oregon Area

Responsibilities included keeping value added stocked with fresh items, rotating product, anticipating inventory needs and ordering product. Additionally was tasked with streamlining and implementing systems to increase efficiencies and production output.

Portland, Oregon Area

Portland, Oregon Area

Portland, Oregon Area

Portland, Oregon Area

Seattle, Wa

Seattle, Wa

Brooklyn, Ny