Marketing professional with extensive background in strategy, research, branding and planning. Highly creative thinker who enjoys the challenge of working with and building middle market brands. Significant knowlege of retail, channel, Category Management and trade strategy and tactics. Significant background in new product development and launches. Have worked with over 220 brands in my career, of all sizes and facing almost every challenge. There is an art in marketing to recognizing recurrent patterns and learnings from one business situation that can then be successfully applied to completely unrelated experiences and clients. I believe this is my most unique skill.Specialties: New Product Development. Branding. Market research. Marketing plan development and implementation. Channel Strategy.Marketing for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Pet, Automotive Aftermarket, Natural / Organic Products, Healthcare, Technology.