Robert Rene Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

Operating and advisory services, personal investment.Select advisory and operating engagements with Founders/CEO's include: -$2B social media/e-commerce platform with over 25M followers (6+ years, including growth strategies, building organization and operating initiatives) -$11B real estate/media investment and development concern (including growth, systems, organization)-$5.5B retailer- Initiated go-private transaction with top 5 global PE firm-Growth SAS technology companies in EV charging, real estate service, and spirits sectors-Advisor to multiple PE firms on potential acquisitions in consumer goods, retail, e-commerce.

Calabasas, California

Chief Operating Officer during the period where HFT became one of the fastest growing and most successful retailers in the U.S, with $3.8B in sales, 20K employees, 40M customers, 800 locations, adding a new store every 3.5 days. Brought in by founder/CEO to help reinvigorate the company: -Complete strategic, financial and operation transformation -Led to historic growth and exponential enterprise value creation ($$ confidential) -Innovative marketing programs delivered industry-leading sales growth -Comprehensive, ongoing cost reduction process helped sustain profitability -Metrics-driven control and executional discipline implemented across the entire enterprise -High-performance management team poised for continued growth

Laurelton is an advisory firm established to provide management and advisory services to boards and large investment funds. Clients included companies owned or controlled by large investment funds.

CEO (Chairman/CEO, co-CEO or Interim CEO) for various entities owned or controlled by F500 companies or large investment funds: MDHI; Electro Source (Consumer); Hartwell (Apparel); InnMedia (Interactive, owned by Hilton Hotels)

Los Angeles, California, United States

Retained to head Marketing and Strategy for period during IPO of this healthcare technology exchange. Initial market cap exceeded $3 billion.

Head of Marketing, hired to reinvigorate national marketing for the 185-station/fifth largest U.S. broadcast network.

Head of marketing and strategy for the $500M interactive TV and distribution venture of Disney, SBC, BellSouth, GTE, SNET and Ameritech.

Actively involved in the corporate strategies that helped lead to the turnaround of Y&R, Inc. and Account Managing Director involved in a number of industries including financial services, media, consumer products and telecommunications industries. Worked on business incluiding Citicorp, Dupont, Colgate, Viacom, AT&T. Headed the team that won the KeyBank business.

Seven years in banking in media M&A, corporate finance and international finance, including as Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions, at Oppenheimer & Co.

Programming executive in charge of Magnum pi and on team which developed series such as Miami Vice. Also, independently developed television and feature film projects at Warner Bros. during this time.

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Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa; Rhodes Scholar Nominee