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✦ DRIVES PROFITABLE GROWTH THROUGH STRATEGIC PRODUCT AND PROCESS INNOVATION ✦I am an Entrepreneurial-Minded Executive who drives top- and bottom-line results by creating and executing winning strategies and building great products, companies, teams, and processes. Throughout my career, I have been an innovator with a distinctive set of expertise including D2C and B2B marketing, business development, engineering, financial, change management, and project leadership experience for startups to multibillion-dollar global enterprises across multiple business industries. I’m respected as someone who has a natural talent of bringing global perspective managing strategic initiatives, portfolios, and teams within matrix organizations in North America, Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia. I have extensive experience in collaborating and empowering leaders who engage top professional talent and inspire creativity and commitment to repeatedly achieve personal and professional best. Identifying Unrealized Market Opportunities: Built a fast-growing company (EarthRoamer.com), effectively positioning the new expedition vehicle concept within an established industry by employing integrated marketing techniques. Ranked as one of the fastest-growing companies by INC, being recognized as the market leader for aesthetic design and functionality while achieving 11% net profit margin within the first three years for a capital-intensive vehicle manufacturing company. Spearheading Effective P&L Management: Delivered $15M in incremental profit growth by creating value propositions, engineering sales enablement tools, engaging in partner marketing, driving customer segmentation and ABM, and facilitating product lifecycle management. Leading Process Improvement with Lean Methodology: Developed and implemented a strategic process to streamline and focus $35M of R&D spend from 325 disparate product development projects to 25, reducing time to market by 50%, and generating $210M increase in annual revenue and 100% increase in yearly new products introductions.  Collaborating with the Business and Key Stakeholders: Created a new product design and a supporting financial business case, synthesizing cross-functional needs of the customer, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, marketing, sales, and finance.Specialties include: Identifying Unrealized Market Opportunities | Spearheading Effective P&L Management | Leading Process Improvement with Lean Methodology | Collaborating with the Business and Key Stakeholders