Valencia Capital LLC© is a family owned private equity firm managed by individuals with broad and diverse experience. Our board members' backgrounds include companies such as ITT, Thomas Tilling Inc., Ernst and Young, IBM, Duracell, Quaker Oats, Emerson Electric, Merecedes Benz, Cole Haan and Tommy Hilfiger to name a few.Our individual areas of expertise include operations management, accounting, finance and marketing and our current portfolio consists of investments in the following industries: health and beauty products, specialized packaging, thermal and pressure related controls, adult novelty products, online limousine booking and niche food product manufacturing.

Verosity Marketing provides strategic and tactical marketing solutions to small businesses looking to expand their capabilities and increase brand awareness. Spanning classic marketing techniques to the latest in digital marketing developments, Verosity Marketing brings large company marketing expertise to small business.Examples of services:-market penetration strategies-positioning elements-advertising collateral-web development & communications-email campaigning-SEO/SEM/PPC-social media integration

Concentrations:Marketing Strategy, Analysis and DevelopmentDigital MarketingFormerly taught:New Venture Discovery The strength of the UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA degree comes from a school culture in which members live the business school’s core values of excellence, leadership, teamwork, integrity and community.

The board provides the University and students access to an exclusive group of individuals from diverse industry backgrounds who all have obtained expertise in the area of digital marketing.

The advisory board provides the Center for Entrepreneurship's faculty, staff, and students important insights and guidance from the Tampa Bay entrepreneurship community that in turn shapes curriculum, educational delivery, and student development.

Support role developing and fostering relationships between new and existing sponsoring organizations and the Tampa Bay AMA.

Taught courses that I helped to co-author on Business Process Management.

Founded in 1971, Bisk Education has grown to become the nation's largest exclusive online facilitator of degree and certificate programs from the country's leading universities, offering end-to-end, lifelong-learning solutions that allow working adults to reach their personal and professional goals through education. Universities such as: Villanova, Notre Dame and Tulane.

Catalina Marketing is the global leader in behavior-based marketing solutions, providing brand manufacturers, retailers and healthcare providers with targeted marketing solutions to meet growth objectives. Utilizing a sophisticated database, Catalina Marketing enables you to reach consumers and patients with precision targeting on a truly mass scale.

Independant consultant specializing in companies re-energize the way they bring their products/services to market. This is done by analyzing their internal practices, their available tool set, the relationships that they create with their employees/customers/end-consumers and of course the image that they project.A sampling of projects:Medical device company wanting to re-brand their product for introduction into new market segments. Focus is on branding, collateral creation, lead generation and tracking.Telecommunications consultant selling emergency services to a state agency. Main body of work centers around delivery of concept and projection of being larger than company really is.Start-up pest control company needing branding, logo work, tag line creation and image consulting.Technology company needing to sharpen its messages relating to service offering and value proposition. Also assisting in bringing core service offering to new market segments.

Manage all aspects of Marketing of firm's services while also managing top accounts.

Redesigned and relaunched a stagnant product line accounting for 45% of company's revenue.

Managed the Internet Marketing, Product Development and Product Engineering groups. Also spearheaded our Philippine based design center and European joint venture projects.

Manage all aspects of ClosetMaid's e-commerce and e-marketing.

Manage all marketing activities related to a $100M business unit.

Atuomotive electronics mfg servicing automotive industry and aftermarket industries.

Managed retail operations for Flrorida, Georgia, South and North Carolina.

Trained all sales representatives in Duracell's $100M Southern Region. Produced all sales related collateral.