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Chester Springs, PA

Provide collaborative strategic consulting and board advisory services focused on identifying, developing and prioritizing strategic growth initiatives, assessing M&A opportunities, large strategic project plan development and execution, and development of holistic Enterprise Risk Management processes. Project work has included: Supporting strategic plan.

Board member and chair of the Development Committee

King Of Prussia, PA

Provide leadership and oversight of Radial’s strategic planning process as well as operationalize and lead a management process for Radial’s critical Strategic Initiatives. Company was sold to bPost in November 2016.

Lancaster, PA

• Oversight for leading strategic planning, new business development, M&A, Enterprise Risk, Government Relations and Corporate Communications.
• Worked globally to develop business plans for significant investments in Asia and Russia for Board of Directors approval as well as growth strategies for ASEAN and Brazil.
• Oversight of the annual strategic planning process for the corporation.
• From 2011 to 2015, grew EBITDA 20% in a flat market, exited non-strategic and underperforming businesses and invested $300M in new manufacturing capabilities in the US and emerging markets.
• Developed a cross-functional risk management process to regularly assess corporate risks and mitigation plans.
• Appointed to lead the separation of Armstrong into two separate publicly traded companies.

• Worked for the Ricoh America’s Chairman on a multi-phase integration plan for Ricoh’s 30K employee US operation after the acquisition of IKON in 2008.
• Developed and presented integration plans to Ricoh’s CEO and senior management team for approval.
• Within 24 months, successfully integrated the Ricoh America’s senior leadership team and backroom functions, the 5K-person services workforce and field leadership responsible for managing >4K sales resources with.

• Oversight for the development and execution of IKON’s M&A strategy to grow core business and expand into adjacent markets including assessment of new markets, target identification, acquisition and integration.
• Developed and implemented an integrated coverage model by establishing a 200-person call center integrated with the internet to support 3K-person direct salesforce.
• Worked with the executive staff to develop IKON’s three-year strategic plan for presentation to the Board of Directors.

• Oversight for $100M supplies P&L, and IKON’s e-business group responsible for $75M in revenue generation and new business initiatives.
• Developed and launched a private-label printer supplies program.

Leader of an e-business group responsible for defining and implementing vertically-focused web sites encompassing the capabilities of multiple GE Capital business units.

Provided market-focused leadership to GE's corporate recruiting function in a highly competitive employment market(’98-’00) – developed corporate employer brand as well as launched and branded one of the original corporate recruiting web sites – gecareers.com (1998).

Responsible for evaluating new adjacencies and developing business plans for this commercial leasing business to enter.

Evaluated the North American Energy Performance Contracting market, developed a business plan and managed a pilot to assess the business potential.

Led a cross-company benchmarking and pilot project for GE's CFO to examine how companies across the world were using operational measurements to drive financial performance. Conducted visits with several Japanese and US companies.

Led a group of internal marketing consultants to structure and conduct strategic marketing and market research projects across GE’s businesses. Developed and analyzed market research, analytic and modeling tools to assess customer satisfaction, new products and markets and acquisition opportunities.

Started as a technical contributor and moved into marketing for this large government information systems developer and integrator. Ultimately responsible for developing capture strategies and proposal positioning for $100+ million business opportunities.

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