Wilton, Connecticut, United States
Thirty four years of international advertising, marketing, and sales management experience within the consumer products, management consulting, and professional services industries.Expert in marketing high end professional services to multinational and middle –market companies in financial services, high technology, health care, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, retail, energy, consumer products, utilities, real estate and construction. Directed consumer marketing and sales promotional programs for consumer products including salted snack foods, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, footwear, engineered products, tires and rubber. Prior to joining Boyden as Chief Marketing Officer, Mr. Graupner was Senior Managing Director with Citigate Global Intelligence with responsibility for business development and case management. Prior to Citigate, Mr. Graupner was Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Kroll Inc., the international business investigations and strategic intelligence firm, a unit of Marsh McLennan . Before joining Kroll, Mr. Graupner was Director of Marketing at A.T. Kearney, Inc. the consulting arm of EDS, and Managing Director of Marketing at PriceWaterhouseCoopers with responsibility for new business development, market research, business analysis, communications, and marketing consulting. Previously, for nearly a decade, he was the National Director of Industry marketing at Ernst & Young where he helped create and manage the firm’s strategy to market along vertical industry lines. He also helped create that firm’s highly acclaimed “ Entrepreneur of the Year program”. Earlier roles in his career include tenure as the Director of Marketing for Culbro Corporation, a Fortune 500 manufacturer and marketer of tobacco, snack foods and pharmaceuticals, and Director of Advertising and Sales Promotion for Uniroyal Inc. Mr. Graupner is a Vietnam era veteran having served in the U.S. Army as a non-commissioned officer in both infantry and intelligence. Specialties: Marketing, large account management, strategic intelligence