Greater Chicago Area
Senior operator that has delivered $300M+ revenue and $75M+ EBITDA impact across manufacturing, CPG, and industrials. Skilled in value creation and organizational transformation across revenue, operations, and analytics functions. I thrive at the intersection of operational excellence, strategic leadership, and analytical rigor. As a trusted executive partner, I excel at: - Developing high-performance teams with exceptional retention rates - Building accountability frameworks that align cross-functional teams - Translating complex data into actionable strategies that deliver measurable results - Establishing effective business rhythms that drive confident decision-making Leadership Experience: - Partner at The Seismic Group, providing comprehensive solutions across procurement, operations, packaging, supply chain, and capital investments. Industries served include private equity, food & beverage, CPG, industrial manufacturing, and distribution sectors. - Founder of Labor Titan, a labor and market pay analytics firm helping enterprises optimize workforce strategy, compensation models, and site selection decisions. - Delivered enterprise value growth for industry leaders including Weil-McClain, Mauser/BWAY, Newell Rubbermaid, Nalco/Ecolab, and Conagra - Established multiple greenfield analytics teams and capabilities from scratch, creating robust analytical capabilities that drove strategic decision-making and operational excellence. MBA from Notre Dame, former Division 1 track athlete at Oregon.
We make it easy to access, understand, and use high quality market pay and workforce information to drive better, faster, more confident decision making and planning. We focus on offering simple, timely, and credible data and analytics for education, government, and industry. Areas of Specialization • US Site Selection – Labor shed and market pay analytics • US College ROI - Provide parents and students with an independent 3rd party perspective on educational ROI along with local job prospects and earning potential post-graduation. • US Cost of Living (COL) Adjusted Pay • US Local Market Occupational Pay • US Occupation and Metro Pay Forecasts While we provide labor and market pay intelligence for all US jobs, our specialization is on-site occupations. These are jobs that require a physical presence to perform the work. These roles make up over 70% of the US workforce. These essential roles form the backbone of our economy: manufacturing workers, healthcare professionals, retail associates, construction teams, transportation workers, skilled trades, and many others who must be physically present at specific locations to complete their core responsibilities.
Strategy Titan is a data, analytics, and AI advisory firm that focuses on helping companies drive top and bottom-line growth using the power of technology.
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Our lending range of $100,000 to $200,000,000 per project, industry leading cost of capital, and robust funding capabilities provides a fresh financing alternative, particularly for private equity backed, capital intensive manufacturing, distribution, transportation, and equipment rental companies. We specialize in OEM solutions, equipment leases, equipment sale-leasebacks, equipment-as-a-service, cash flow solutions, inventory finance, and lines of credit. We offer the opportunity to move away from high-interest equipment lenders while providing creative lease structures that fuel growth, drive EBITDA, and increase enterprise value. We focus on capital heavy industries like: Industrial & Manufacturing | Cold Chain Operations| Warehousing | Food & Beverage | Transportation | Distribution | Equipment Rental | Construction Equipment | Franchise
End-to-End Supply Chain, Operational, Real Estate and Digital Transformation Seismic Facility Solutions is a management consulting firm that aligns a company's strategic vision with short and long-term tactical plans to create holistic, end-to-end supply chain, operational, real estate and digital strategies that allow for flexibility and growth. We act as a resource extension to private equity firms, family offices, management teams, real estate developers, and service providers such as: accounting firms, law firms, investment banks, commercial banks, real estate brokerage firms, general contractors, and other trusted advisors. We have been in your shoes and are all experienced operators. Our team ranges from 15-35+ years of executive leadership roles with private equity owned companies to the Fortune 100. Once the strategy is crafted and team procured, we then execute on that plan by providing oversight, project management, and tracking tools to make sure your management teams have the support they need, giving them time to focus on their day jobs.
Recognized as HVAC “Top 40 Under 40” in 2017. Chosen to develop, nurture and coach HVAC best in class analytics team from scratch. Strategy team leader for our digital transformation, e-commerce, channel growth, and market analysis/research initiatives. Member of leadership team that helped drive record revenues and profits in 2018. SIGNIFICANT STRATEGIC RESPONSIBILITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS • Serve as owner, visionary and change agent for the strategic development and implementation of global reporting, analytical, price management and data visualization platforms. • Proactively formed, led, and coached a team which provides market research and trend analysis, competitive insights, customer and market segmentation, and share of market analysis. • Created a pricing strategy/analytics platform and price management structure to optimize profitability. End result was a more disciplined pricing culture and operating profit expansion. • Constructed and implemented a master data management processes to maintain existing enterprise data and generate new data in support of analytical, digital and e-commerce initiatives • Initiated a data distribution strategy for external stakeholders which facilitates the sharing of insights and knowledge
Reporting to the EVP of Sales, responsibilities include (1) lead the sales analytical insight function (2) serve as the leader for sales on all FP&A, budget and forecasting activities (3) develop enterprise data management strategy (4) design, develop and deploy internal systems and procedures (5) work extensively with executive leadership in Sales/Marketing, Operations, Purchasing, and Finance to drive strategic initiatives. SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS • Lead the analytical insight, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting functions for the Sales organization. • Provide research, business insight, analytical support, and recommendations to executive management to acquire profitable new business, optimize current business, and retain/service current customers. • Responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the strategy for enterprise sales & marketing data infrastructure, reporting and analytics. • Oversee the development, implementation, and enhancement of analytical tools, systems, and policies. • Point person for team that developed pricing analytics methodology and technology to identify price improvement opportunities via market segmentation, giving us the ability to use pricing as a long term strategic advantage. Improved EBITDA $4,000,000 in first 12 months of project. • Worked extensively with Operations, Purchasing, and Engineering groups on sales & operations planning process and capacity planning to drive lower inventory levels, optimize machine utilization, and assemble more accurate volume forecasts. • Serve as resident SAP and BI/Reporting subject matter expert for SAP implementation across 28 plants. Consult with senior management on a regular basis to convey SAP best practices. Also conduct extensive system testing on behalf of the sales group.