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West Palm Beach, Florida

Responsible for building organization capabilities and teams across NEP’s portfolio of companies by providing a breadth of organization design, talent strategy, compensation design, team development, coaching, acquisition integration, and human resources advisory support needed to successfully scale growing businesses. Leads the firm’s operating advisory team, portfolio services, DEI steering team, and human resources function. Since 1961, NEP has created opportunities, jobs, and value by investing in and building industry leading middle market companies. NEP invests nationally from offices in Minneapolis and West Palm Beach.

Greater Boston

Coretelligent is a leading provider of comprehensive managed IT, cybersecurity, and cloud services. Offering differentiated solutions designed to secure and enhance IT operations for optimal business performance, Coretelligent serves as an outsourced solution for clients’ IT spend on storage, compute capacity, security, and computer software and hardware.

Minnesota, United States

Great River Greening is Minnesota's leader in nature-based climate solutions through land restoration. Great River Greening inspires, engages and leads local communities in conserving and caring for the land and water that enrich our lives.

Iowa City, Iowa

As a part of the Tippie College of Business, Iowa JPEC is the hub for entrepreneurship education and outreach at the University of Iowa. Iowa JPEC has grown its influence in the entrepreneurial community and inspired thousands of entrepreneurs to start a business in Iowa. Today, we’re committed to helping every entrepreneur, no matter their level of expertise, to start something great.

Eden Prairie, Mn

Co-founded River Rock Partners, a management consulting firm comprised of consumer products senior executives. We partnered with our clients by partnering with and guiding leadership teams through critical business transformations including: aggressive growth; changes in ownership; building scalable infrastructure and capabilities; mergers & acquisitions; business and location integrations; divestitures; start-up, early stage and turnaround phases. We assisted our clients in developing and articulating their Company’s vision, business strategy & culture and then partnered with them to operationalize their strategy through designing and implementing the planning, people, process and technology capabilities necessary to achieve their vision. My focus included:- long-term fractional or interim HR strategic leadership roles for several private equity owned companies and a large publicly traded retailer.- Acquisition due diligence & integration process leadership- Strategic planning and business process development- Organization design and strategy including building leadership teams, capabilities planning and assessment, executive compensation structure, HR structure & strategy, talent management