New York City Metropolitan Area
I'm a hands-on, results-oriented IT executive with 25+ years of end-to-end technology leadership at small-to-mid-sized Consumer Packaged Goods companies — dairy, smoked seafood, spirits, and food & beverage. I'm currently open to my next opportunity, ideally as CIO or Head of IT at a small-to-mid-sized CPG company where my hands-on style and end-to-end experience can make an outsized difference. Equally comfortable serving as CIO of a $325M family-held food processor and as a senior IT leader at a $19B global CPG. Proven success driving private-equity carve-outs, ERP transformations, M&A integrations, supply chain and manufacturing modernization, cyber security, data and analytics, and IT operations stabilization. What I do: • Build, transform, and modernize IT functions in CPG environments — applications, infrastructure, cyber, service delivery, data and analytics, and the team itself. • Lead private-equity carve-outs, M&A integrations, and Transition Service Agreement (TSA) exits — most recently Horizon Organic's carve-out from Danone under Platinum Equity. • Select and implement ERP and core business systems (Infor M3 CloudSuite Food & Beverage, SAP ECC, Oracle Financials, Workday, ADP), and rationalize sprawling application portfolios. • Stand up supply chain, manufacturing (MES, OT/IT, cyber compliance), and e-commerce capabilities — and make them work together. • Partner with CEOs, CFOs, Boards, PE sponsors, executive teams, and PE operating partners so technology is a value driver rather than a back-office afterthought. Where I've done it: • Horizon Organic Dairy (Platinum Equity carve-out from Danone) — Director, IT D2D • Acme Smoked Fish Corp. (~$325M, family-held, 4 plants) — Chief Information Officer • Diageo (~$19B global CPG) — VP Global Diageo Business Services NA / Sr. Director Portfolio Delivery • Earlier: General Electric (CIO, GE Capital Market Services), HBO (Director of Financial Systems), The Travelers. How I lead: high energy, fair, open, hands-on. I build high-performance teams, coach and motivate, and I'm comfortable being both strategic with the board and tactical on the plant floor. Industries: Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Food & Beverage, Dairy, Spirits, Smoked Seafood; earlier in Financial Services, Entertainment, and Insurance. Let's connect if you're a CPG company, a PE firm with a CPG portfolio company, or an executive search partner working on CIO, Head of IT, VP, or Director-level technology roles.
IT leadership engagement at Sound Associates (est. 1946), a family-owned Tony Award®–recognized pioneer in theatre technology serving Broadway, Off-Broadway, concert halls, and performing arts venues worldwide. Known for introducing the first infrared assistive-listening system on Broadway in 1979. · RESERVATION PLATFORM: Implemented an assistive-listening online reservation system, integrating internal operations with WordPress / WooCommerce via APIs. · PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: Managed development of a new accessibility product — engineering firm oversight, full product and compatibility testing, and custom enclosure development. · WEB MODERNIZATION: Converted legacy HTML website to WordPress to enable internal content maintainability.
Senior IT executive at a global CPG / beverage-alcohol leader (~$19B net sales, 200+ brands including Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray, Baileys, and Guinness; 143 production sites, 30,400 employees, 180 countries). Owned IT for Diageo North America (NAM): $25M project portfolio, $46M annual operating budget, and IT services across 45 sites (US, Canada, USVI) supporting supply chain planning, logistics, manufacturing, maturing, distilling, procurement, and facilities. Built and led NAM Service Delivery (40 employees + 30 consultants) and the BRM/PMO (10 PMs and BAs). · INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION: Implemented SAP EIS (inventory optimization), generating $10M in inventory / safety-stock savings and fully automating the inventory optimization process for North America. · PRODUCTIVITY & COST-OUT: Delivered $9.5M+ in productivity savings over 4 years as accountable lead for GDBS NAM cost-out. · SUPPLY CHAIN MATURITY: Spearheaded selection of the Global Distributor Collaboration platform (Kinaxis) to drive a Demand-Driven Value Network and move Diageo up the Gartner supply-chain maturity curve. · IT TRANSFORMATION: Drove North America transformation — data center move, ServiceNow implementation, new outsourced support vendor, and email migration to the cloud — supporting a ~20% lift in NAM user satisfaction. · CYBER & PCI: Led global cyber security and PCI compliance program across 9 manufacturing sites and 3 visitor centers; selected and rolled out a globally PCI-compliant POS platform. · PORTFOLIO RATIONALIZATION: Led global application rationalization across 21 markets, deploying an Application Portfolio Management system and onboarding 900+ applications with full data and CMDB (Configuration Management Database) linkage. · PROJECT DELIVERY: Delivered 46 projects across all functions including Anaplan-based commercial planning; integrated IT for a SAP implementation in Brazil and the wines divestiture.
Provided IT leadership to assess client technology capabilities, advise on technology decisions, and ensure information technology was enabling clients to achieve their business objectives. · Evaluated e-commerce platforms (Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce) for SMB clients and produced selection proposals.
Recruited as the company's first true CIO of a family-held food processing & distribution CPG (~$325M revenue; ~1,000 employees; 4 manufacturing locations plus Norlax in Denmark and a Chile partnership). Brands: Acme, Blue Hill Bay, Ruby Bay, Great American, Spence & Co. Owned all aspects of IT — strategy, ERP, manufacturing, cyber, service delivery, data and analytics, and the IT team. · ERP TRANSFORMATION: Selected and implemented Infor M3 CloudSuite Food & Beverage — 8-vendor RFP, business-requirements-led selection, contract negotiation, and Agile implementation through COVID-19. · MES MODERNIZATION: Implemented CAT2 MES and integrated it with M3 — automating manufacturing data collection, providing real-time alerts on product specs, improving yield, and capturing audit-ready Water Phase Salt and 3rd-party testing data. · DATA & ANALYTICS: Spearheaded creation of a new data warehouse, selected Tableau, designed Acme's future-state data model (Tableau, Birst, QlikView, Power BI), and launched a data strategy initiative for a single, reliable version of the truth. · IT OPERATIONS STABILIZATION: Centralized support, stood up the IT helpdesk and 24/7 coverage, standardized desktop image and OS deployment, eliminated Windows 7, and migrated email from on-premise Exchange to Exchange Online / O365. · E-COMMERCE & POS: Launched B2C e-commerce and corporate site on Adobe Magento in 8 weeks end-to-end; rolled out POS enabling credit card payments, curbside pickup during COVID-19, and improved inventory tracking. · M&A INTEGRATION: Led IT integration of the Spence & Co. acquisition — full hardware and network replacement, payroll and timeclock implementation, and multiple application replacements. · TEAM BUILD: Restructured the IT team end-to-end — grew from 5 employees to 11 staff plus 10 consultants — shifting the function from reactive support to strategic partner.
Joined Danone in February 2024 to provide IT strategic direction across the Design-to-Delivery value chain, then transitioned in April 2024 to lead all business applications for Horizon Organic Dairy following Platinum Equity's carve-out from Danone (~$650M revenue, 200 employees, 1 manufacturing site plus co-manufacturers; brands include Horizon Organic milk, butter, cheese, and Wallaby Yogurt). Owned development, support, and transformation of all business applications for the standalone Horizon company; served as primary IT interface with Platinum Equity operating partners, Danone TSA counterparts, and Horizon's CIO and Head of Cyber Security throughout a 16-month carve-out and value-creation program. · TSA EXIT: Delivered a clean, on-plan exit from the Danone Transition Service Agreement — SAP ECC clone and full integration testing, replacement of multiple 3rd-party applications, and new EDI maps for customers, 3PLs, and Uber Freight built on webMethods. · OPERATIONAL RESILIENCE: Replaced critical-path Danone proprietary finished-goods application in 5 months with an Ignition-based solution enabling continued production and shipping when SAP is unavailable, simplifying operator processing and improving inventory accuracy. · VENDOR & ITSM FOUNDATION: Selected, negotiated, and onboarded the Application Managed Services partner (GyanSys) covering SAP ECC, webMethods, and Concur — transitioned support prior to exiting hypercare; stood up Freshservice for incident, request, and change management across all business applications. · OT/IT CYBER: Partnered with Cyber Security and Infrastructure leadership to remediate multiple high-severity vulnerabilities across the manufacturing OT and IT environment.