Mitch Lapides Email & Phone Number

Doylestown, PA, US

Member of the Board of Directors at Water Systems Consulting, Inc. (WSC), a civil and environmental engineering firm that specializes in the planning, design, evaluation and optimization of municipal drinking water, wastewater and recycled water systems, as well as water resources.

Outside of my board positions, currently on a wonderful break from the corporate world to spend more time with my family and friends and to pursue my passions and hobbies. I am excited about my new adventures! I remain open to the possibilities of helping and supporting my many friends and colleagues, so please don’t be strangers.

Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States

Responsible for developing, integrating, and executing upon a vision that drives a disruptive model for distributing and operating bare-metal infrastructure servers and related technologies. Oversaw product management (cloud, infrastructure, and storage), commercial solutions (product pricing, procurement, and capacity management), and business.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Leader of the product-management and design team for the LexisNexis suite of intellectual property (IP) tools and solutions. Managed overall product and related business strategy direction for the global.
• Trained and mentored product team in current best practices for product management, leveraging Silicon Valley Product Group methodologies, Lean Startup, design sprints, and more.
• Developed global product strategy, & restructured product and design team to align; recruited to fill gaps.
• Established and implemented operational plans and requirements management to fast-track improvements to address product shortfalls and leverage strategic opportunities; drove substantial improvements in NPS.

• Founded and managed FulcrumTech, a leading U.S. email marketing agency. Managed full P&L, strategic business development, sales, marketing, project management, process development and improvement, recruitment of.
• Established, grew, and managed day-to-day operations of industry-leading product and services-based email-marketing agency which delivered strong profits 14 years straight.
• Completed a thorough product marketing and technology assessment for a major metropolitan newspaper; overhauled the marketing tech, campaign strategy, and supporting marketing analytics, generating a 90% increase in.
• Created a consistent, repeatable business development and sales process that resulted in a 57%+ close rate, delivering a steady flow of digital-marketing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) email-service-provider contracts.
• Spearheaded creation and continuous improvement of key processes for operations, technology development, analytics, and management necessary to scale the organization through growth phases and achieve industry-leading.
• Designed, built, and launched comprehensive email-analytics system used to uncover email-optimization opportunities and to track ongoing campaign performance trends, typically resulting in double to triple-digit.

• Led digital-products group for a world-leading Health Sciences publisher targeting physicians, nurses, and other health professionals. Member of Health Sciences Executive Management Board. Managed global electronic.
• Established strategy, vision, and marketing leadership to complete a turnaround of digital-products group (SaaS, clinical reference, educational courseware, and mobile applications) which resulted in revenue growth of.
• Recruited talent and established a world-class organization, including business processes, to drive ongoing strategy development, product management, and launch of over 30 new products, contributing to double-digit.
• Launched 2 groups of transformational products (Evolve for education and First Consult for medical mobile handheld products used at point-of-care), driving double-digital revenue and market share growth.
• Refocused salesforce through launch of innovative e-medical product line with a pricing strategy that opened significant revenue opportunities at over 5,000 hospitals.

• Managed gartner.com, Gartner’s flagship website including product strategy and business strategy, development, design, and operations at this prominent technology consulting, research, and publishing firm. Directed.
• Led the team and managed an 8-figure project budget to redesign and rebuild the gartner.com website after building consensus for requirements over multiple business units; increased website usage 50%+ and ensured.
• Turned around, raised capital internally, and then recruited, organized, and managed project execution team of over 150, including 20+ vendors to recreate gartner.com.
• Drove the integration and turnaround of a recently-purchased, underperforming division, resulting in a successful migration through Year 2K and substantial improvement in IT development output; promoted to Group Vice.
• Collaborated and built effective strategy with Purchasing, delivering 30% in vendor cost savings (>$1 million) by negotiating over 20 contracts with CRM, document management, and other technology suppliers.Awarded.

• Served as division Vice President for U.S. leading publisher of journals, books and resources for nurses and allied-health professionals. Led strategic planning, vision, new product development, and operations of.
• Actively led multifunctional project team from concept through implementation of Springnet.com, which became the nursing industry’s leading advertising-based clinical-reference website which reached over 2 million.
• Built the nursing industry’s largest online continuing education site, introduced as part of Springnet.com and made over 230 contact hours available via ecommerce to practicing nurses across the U.S.
• Developed an innovative, advertising-based funding strategy, leveraging pharmaceutical, device, and other firms, to fill gap in capital resources required for the development of corporate ecommerce and.
• Conceptualized and managed development of ancillary digital products to drive market-share gains of Nurse’s Drug Guide and other publications.

Mba, Marketing And Finance

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma (finance honor society)

Ba, Biology, Chemistry, Economics

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa