Alene Candles is a full-service contract and private-label manufacturer of superior home fragrance products for the gift, cosmetic and retail markets. Our industry expertise has allowed us to produce for some of the world's best-known brands. We pride ourselves in exceeding quality and delivery expectations, and in our ability to customize solutions across a range of candle and home-fragrance products.

Founding partner of a startup to facilitate communications between suppliers and sales reps in independent sales channels. Conceived and delivered initial value proposition and overall product strategy. Integrated and rationalized organization through one merger and one acquisition during post-bubble economic downturn. Established internal processes in finance, operations, and sales.

Represented technology and manufacturing interests in a joint venture with CSL Limited (Parkville, Australia) to produce a pentavalent pediatric vaccine for Asian and third-world markets. Restructured startup activities and staffing for final phases of a bacterial fermentation and purification process transfer in an adversarial, politically-charged relationship with a third-party toll manufacturer. Led 15-member cross-functional team in execution of an estimated 29-man-year effort to startup and demonstrate an automated production-scale protein purification process capable of producing more than 100MM doses Hepatitis B vaccine annually.