Michelle is a senior corporate leader who is passionate about scaling new business and growth focused opportunities. Her specialties include 30 years of experience in global supply chain, building high performing global teams, quality products and profitable outcomes.With an exceptional track record of P&L accountability combined with deep experience across all aspects of international operations, manufacturing, supply chain management, and commerce, she builds strategic partnerships across a diverse group of stakeholders and distribution partners. Additional extensive accomplishments include building long term partnerships with top apparel brands and distribution partners such as Lululemon, Lands’ End, and The North Face. Michelle brings a customer focused point of view, balance, and an inquisitive approach to problem solving and creating innovative solutions. Career highlights include:• Making critical invest/divest decisions and formulating acquisition strategies to fill brand voids, including evaluating potential targets for leadership value, product lines, market impression, liabilities, and upside in competitive growth or manufacturing.• Building a top-performing North American Sales organization and fueled stellar growth in a complex macroeconomic trade environment, requiring 24/7 global communication to achieve timing/margin requirements.• Catalyzing breakthrough sales levels by identifying and incubating some of the world’s most famous brands to achieve maximal value, long-term profit, product innovation pipelines, and revenue growth.• Acquiring and constructing US real estate facilities, creating premium facilities to host global staff, create unique client-focused experiences, and enable closer relationships - with many of these investments doubling in value since inception.• Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as a Board member to the Camber Outdoors nonprofit organization, focused on evangelizing the benefits of DEI throughout the outdoor industry; involvement spans Executive Committee roles in Finance and Development, in addition to recent election as Co-President of the organization at large.• Supplying internal/external thought leadership in numerous functional business areas including Brand Development, Change Management, Center of Excellence (COE) Implementation, Global Sourcing, Business Development, Manufacturing, Logistics & Supply Chain Planning, Sustainability, and ESG considerations.