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Chicago, IL, US

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, US

Lead all revenue-generating functions, including sales, marketing, and customer success.Growth over 2.5 years - 3X ARR, 2X EBITDA, 2X Customer Base- Converted from an On-Premise/License Model to a SaaS/Subscription Pricing Model- Exceeded stretch targets for bookings and EBITDA- Rolled out our first customer NPS program to great success- Maintained 100%.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, US

Atlanta, GA, US

Banyan Software acquires, builds and grows great enterprise software businesses. Banyan is backed by a world-class group of CEOs and investors with deep technology experience. Banyan focuses on a buy and hold for life strategy for growing software companies that serve specialized markets.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Member of Pacific Lake Partners' Executive Leadership Program, focused on building the executive talent base for Banyan Software's portfolio companies. Currently, supporting Banyan Software as part of the executive team of Next Chapter Technology (NCT), a high growth, GovTech SaaS business in the health and human services industry.

Mclean, Virginia, US

• Responsible for identifying long-term, high growth strategic opportunities across categories and new consumer jobs for the transversal portfolio, developing new go-to-market strategies, and collaborating with global.
• Develop and incubate strategic and new-to-Mars growth initiatives, developing the portfolio of the future across global brands and consumer insight territories, building a multi-year pipeline for emerging and.
• Lead one of Top 3 strategic Big Bets for Mars Wrigley’s Global Growth Transformation. Incorporates development of new product formats, marketing strategy, and route-to-market for DOVE® and SNICKERS® master brands.
• Forged external partnerships and co-branding collaboration efforts stretching Mars Wrigley portfolio into the athletic performance & gaming performance spaces for the North American and European regional growth.
• Accelerated NPD and new brand commercialization of RESPAWN Esports gaming gum into European markets through e-comm and retail.
• Lead multiple agile cross-functional teams (marketing, sales, R&D, supply, sustainability, legal, regulatory, etc.) to develop innovation platforms across the portfolio including new categories, channel-specific, price.

Mclean, Virginia, US

• Responsible for the creation, change implementation, and cultivation of a new agile innovation operating model and culture for the $15B+ Global Mars Wrigley Business Unit. Develop new brands and business models for.
• Serve as the Chief-of-Staff to the VP of Innovation, supporting the Chief Growth Officer. The scope spans across all our portfolio of brands along with the creation of new brands & business models to drive sustainable.
• Led the creation & continuous improvement of our first internal venture funding arm consisting of the Executive suite of our business (CEO, CFO, CGO, and Regional Presidents)
• Created culture of learning and experimentation. Coached cross-functional, breakthrough innovation teams on agile methodologies linked to hypotheses driven, evidence-based experimentation to drive continued funding.
• Established global operational excellence program for treats and snacks portfolio to drive sustainable core business and grow innovation portfolio. Constructed business performance visualization tracking platform in.

Mclean, Virginia, US

• Served on leadership team for North American Ice Cream business operations. Led organizational transformation to autonomous work teams through development of strategic capabilities at all levels. Managed 5 direct.
• Developed advanced problem solving and data analysis capabilities across Ice Cream business and Mars Inc. North American Supply network by implementing a lean operating model and embedding agile ways of working.
• Served as problem solving coach for cross-functional Tiger Team turning around declining core SNICKERS® ice cream brand by growing sales and market share, and improving P&L shape.
• Key member of competitive “war games” simulation for KIND® brand launch into Frozen treats/ice cream category.
• Advanced NPD, marketing & innovation strategy for new brand, KIND FROZEN, launch into emerging health and wellness frozen treats category.

Mclean, Virginia, US

• Led 5-member team in developing & commercializing $20M of major capital projects for site, totaling $45M+ of incremental NSV and $2M+ annual savings for Ice Cream business. Key member of Operations Leadership Team.
• Managed a team of project leads responsible for the site's $20M+ worth of capital project vertical startups
• Responsible for the development and execution of the continuous improvement process for the Ice Cream manufacturing site
• Lead the delivery of YOY financial and KPI improvements through the development, implementation and ongoing improvement of a sustainable Lean Operating System at the Burr Ridge manufacturing site.
• Drive a learning culture that embraces standardized work, information flow, problem solving/root cause analysis, strategy deployment and continuous improvement.
• Responsible for the development and coaching of the supply leaders on the execution of the Mars Supply Network Lean Transformation towards a TPM environment.

Westchester, Illinois, US

• Led a multiple business unit continuous improvement program consisting of 10 cross-functional teams, reducing costs by more than $500k per year for each department. Led 24/7 business unit operations team consisting of.
• Led the continuous improvement program across the site resulting in savings of $200K/year
• North American CI Water and Wastewater Team Member that developed $430K per year in water and steam saving opportunities, equivalent to an 11% reduction in plant water usage
• Optimized front end evaporation process control loops improving the overall operational effectiveness and providing $250K annually in steam savings.
• Led a $300K plant-wide implementation of real time automated downtime analysis software measuring Overall Equipment Effectiveness and Asset Performance Management
• Led the collaboration across multiple value streams to establish key performance indicators to produce a cost effective 570K lbs. of commercial and pharmaceutical grade dextrose sugar per year

Westchester, Illinois, US

• Managed a 24/7 operations covering three shifts of 20 total hourly union associates that exceeded the value stream's safety, quality, production costs, and customer delivery goals.
• Led a Six Sigma Green Belt project extending the life of pharmaceutical grade filters providing a cost reduction improvement of $80K YoY along with improving life-saving quality control measures
• Coached multiple Six Sigma CI project engineers generating over $500k in cost reduction savings and productivity improvements across the site

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Developed key initiatives for each quarter to improve towards the lines' 73% System Utilization goal
• Created the next fiscal year's departmental plan for improvements
• Summarized total planned and unplanned downtime losses of each line for the past year
• Prepared Water Cooling System project to reduce the water and chemical overuse within the department
• Updated department's Manufacturing and Quality Information Systems (MQIS) Reason Code Log for better tracking and diagnosis of stops on the lines
• Lead Continuous Improvements tools/events for the casepacker and capper and found the root cause of issues to increase the mean time between failures by over 75%

Columbia, MO, US

• As a full-time student - Assisted the radioactive lab technicians & microbiologists to develop life-saving radiopharmaceuticals for patients around the world.
• The University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR®) is the highest-power university research reactor in the United States, operating at 10 megawatts.

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

Master Of Business Administration, Marketing & Entrepreneurship

Digital Marketing Professional

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering & Minor In Mathematics

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