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New York, Ny, Us

West Haven, Connecticut, Us

Sabatino is North America's largest importer of fresh truffles. Producing a wide assortment of truffle food products as truffle honey, truffle salt, Truffle ZEST and truffle oils, under the SABATINO TARTUFI brand in the only accredited and largest truffle manufacturing facility in the North America. Sabatino is also the producer of SKIN & CO Roma, a truffle-based cosmetic line.

Ny, Ny, Us

Advise small to mid-size companies, focusing on strategy development, market position and revenue growth. Draw from previous experience to guide entrepreneurs in startup, turnaround and improvement of ongoing operations. Merged with The HighCrown Group LLC in July 2016.

WeRecycle, a multimillion-dollar domestic electronic recycling and processing enterprise, was bought out of bankruptcy in 2009 by the Hugo Neu Corporation.Created and implemented new business model that would include electronics collections and refurbishing, adding to the company’s profitability. Built alliances for outsourcing specific areas of process to reduce cost. Managed 160 employees.Arranged business into four distinct P&L centers; established cost saving initiatives and financial benchmarks. Launched legislative collection activities in PA that yielded 3.2 million pounds of electronic recyclables in 2012.

As Vice President of Commercial, oversaw sales and marketing, pricing, customers, supply chain and customer service. Promoted to COO within two months to provide operational leadership and jumpstart expansion.Rebuilt company infrastructure. Expanded from three locations in NY and CT, including one plant with shredding equipment, to two collection and manual dismantling plants throughout the US. Led cultural change of company including training, job descriptions and career paths. Implemented successful 10-week blitz to engage New York state municipalities for recycling collection contracts. Oversaw 80 employees at multiple locations.Expanded Connecticut Legislative Electronic Collections from 31 sites in 2010 to 103 sites in 2011 increasing collected volume.Installed a Collective Electronic Waste Acceptance Program in New York to satisfy 2010 Electronic Recycling and Reuse Act. Introduced manufacturing metrics/protocols that improved operating effectiveness and increased system throughput from 40,000 pounds to 110,000 pounds per day.Restructured 164 hourly manufacturing employees into formal Self-Directed Work Teams increasing work productivity and reducing overtime from 24% to less than 10%.

Frankfurt A.M., Hessen, De

Turned around loss-generating, multi-plant, multimillion-dollar international manufacturing operation of alumina-based products. Restructured and relaunched new business model creating a vital, streamlined growth organization. Led senior staff of five and indirect team of 60 across two manufacturing facilities. Owned full accountability for division: manufacturing, marketing (including product management) and sales, business development and customer service activities.Diversified North American market, generating $9M YOY revenue growth and claiming 50%+ market share.Rolled out two new $1M revenue lines that expanded specialized/high-value applications in premiere markets.

Frankfurt A.M., Hessen, De

Following successful sale of Adsorbents & Catalysts division, selected to create first ever marketing and business development organization within Almatis. Built organization from the ground up. Staffed, set strategic directives and developed and implemented strategic marketing plans. Established an integrated product management, marketing and business development team.

Frankfurt A.M., Hessen, De

General Manager, Adsorbents and Catalyst (2005)Vice President – Sales and Technology, Adsorbents & Catalysts and Specialty Hydrates (2005)Drove global revenue growth across the existing sales, sales development and technology teams. Revised business model to match a new marketing plan.As General Manager, led turnaround of multimillion-dollar newly acquired Adsorbents and Catalyst division (two plants with 118 employees globally). Oversaw all operations including manufacturing and engineering; finance, marketing/product management, business development, sales, plant customer service/shipping (North America), HR and administrative affairs.Doubled EBITDA in less than one year; increased annual revenue by $6M; slashed operation expenditures $2M in eight months; and eliminated 20 unprofitable lines, decreasing portfolio from 80 to 60 offerings.Sold business in three months for 3xs the price purchased 14 months prior.

Critical player in sale of GE Specialty Chemicals and transitioned to Crompton, a US specialty chemicals and polymer products company, to lead startup operations and set strategic direction of this multimillion-dollar Organometallic division.Opened new marketing channels in Asia/Pacific and the Americas, adding a new $2M customer base. Assembled and drove a five-year plan forecasted to increase revenues 20% and double overall earnings. Exceeded first year goal expectations.

Boston, Ma, Us

Established new global marketing organization for GE Specialty Chemicals sector of this multimillion-dollar conglomerate. Led product management, marketing and business development activities. Implemented strategies that achieved long-term profitability and market position.Created $31M revenue opportunity by establishing call-center to track samples and follow-up with lead targets. Immediately gained $500K in incremental revenue in first three months.Revamped pricing structure to curtailed price leakage. Improved contribution margins by $11M.Delivered two business development ventures projected to generate $15M over three years.

Boston, Ma, Us

Created and implemented turnaround strategy for underperforming multimillion-dollar e-commerce JV between Albemarle, Cytec and GE Specialty Chemicals. Using Six Sigma tools, re-engineered business model and optimized fulfillment processes minimizing operating cost and improving customer satisfaction. In this interim role, lowered Internet fulfillment costs and increased on-time delivery efficiency 24%.

Riyadh, Sa

Commercial head of a multimillion-dollar business unit serving North America. Despite PBT market surplus and an economic downturn maintained market position, raised prices and increased revenues. Achieved contribution margin of $176M. Restructured pricing policies to offset material costs inflation by delivering $14M incremental revenues. Only NA supplier to increase price while retaining customers.

Riyadh, Sa

Crystalline Marketing Manager – GE Plastics (1999) GELON Product Manager – GE Plastics (1998 – 1999)Crystalline Business Development Leader – GE Plastics (1997 – 1998)Crystalline Product Specialist (1996 – 1997)

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering (Dual Degree Program With Clark Atlanta University)

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Physics (Dual Degree Program With Georgia Institute Of Technology)