Consumer Products Growth/Turnaround President:

Best Practices Applied to Mid-Cap | Resource-Limited | PE Portfolio Companies

Consumer products growth and turnaround CEO/president with history of mid-cap success delivering superior revenues, profits and market performance for emerging, distressed, and private equity portfolio companies. Financially-oriented, metric-driven marketing strategist, effective team builder and leader able to launch and profitably grow consumer brands in domestic and global markets including healthcare, medical devices, nutrition, consumer durables and housewares. Reputation for quickly assessing company and market SWOT and successfully adapting Fortune 100 best practices (J&J/Gillette) to smaller resource-constrained and non-CPG companies; equally comfortable interacting with board members, investors, customers, and employees in the office, lab, or plant. Fluent in German.

Drive Shareholder Value by 1) focusing on key financials (e.g., gross margin, operating expenses, free cash flow, working capital); 2) setting clear strategy/vision and relentlessly communicating it to the organization; 3) implementing executional and process best practices while continuously improving talent levels within key functional areas; and 4) placing high organizational priority on consistent brand communication to all audiences and accelerated new product development