Direct/Manage National Retail Sales, while building an EXTRAORDINARY brand!Job - Take a $250K year local CPG business and grow! Results - Expanded nationally in Natural and grew the business to over $6MM year in sales - 42% CAGR over 5 year period. Distributors - Manage/Partner with multiple National Natural Distributors. Broker - Partner/Manage National Broker - Building Strategic Plans/Profitable Promotions to drive everyday and incremental sales. Customer Development - Continued effort to build and develop strategic relationships within multiple channels - Whole Foods, Sprouts, etc.

-Spicewood Branding LLC, is a branding and marketing company primarily focused on creating new brands, and servicing brands in the rapidly developing beverage space. -Consulting with entrepreneurs and helping bring their ideas to fruition. This includes a refrigerated Chai Tea which we took from inception to shelf at Whole Foods and other retailers.-My partners and I developed Ballotin Whiskey from inception to shelf. With 4 flavors (Chocolate, Chocolate Mint, Bourbon Ball, and Pecan Turtle), Ballotin is in distribution in multiple states across the U.S.

-Leading a business with multiple strategic customers (Kroger - Ralphs, Food4Less So Cal, Food4Less Midwest, Fry's, King Soopers, and Smith's) with sales in excess of $115MM.-Managed a +$3MM customer trade budget which included forecasting.-Managed and directed our Retail Broker Team in So Cal, Arizona and Utah.-Created long range strategic plans while developing top level business relationships within a (7) state geography.

Strategically developed and executed new Retail Operations Program for Campbell’s Retail Sales Team.