Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
Winston Churchill once said, “The pessimist see difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist see opportunity in every difficulty.” An optimist by nature, I have spent 25+ yrs turning business roadblocks into organization growth and success. Working across teams and leaders, I create and communicate plans that answer the “what”, “why”, and “how” of every objective. Positioning data at the center of all my work, I execute decision making with business objectives and operational needs in mind. Disruptive in the marketplace, I create service offerings others have not thought of to ensure cutting-edge solutions. I am excited about solving business and industry problems of tomorrow and today. Innovative executive with bottom line focus. Proven leader in comprehensive business development, financial management, and operations excellence. Experience in Fortune 500, Private Organizations, and Private Equity. Market builder with multimillion dollar contract wins, lead significant restructurings, and implement various cost-effective programs. Skilled in mobilizing and garnering support from diverse stakeholders to build world-class organizations and human capital that consistently deliver high levels of success and profitability. Demonstrated success in repositioning companies to strengthen brands and achieve market leadership. Keen sense in assessing market promise with proven ability to navigate companies toward a maximum ROI business. Skilled in mergers and acquisitions to include integration. A hands-on, value base decision maker with the interest of the organization/employee relationship at forefront. Entrepreneur, with commitment to ethics and excellence in all activities. Each assignment has made positive change in EBITDA, net income, growth and margin. These successes involve incremental acquisitions, enhanced platforms to scale, revenue acceleration, operational excellence, and talent management. With over 20 years successful achievements in market growth, general management, operations, sales and strategic planning across multiple industry sectors has provided a cross disciplinary strategic and tactical acumen. This provides me ability to lead in aggressive and shrinking economies. My strength lies in the ability to both grow business and return troubled operations to successful and profitable enterprise. * Interested in brainstorming on ways I can support your organization or potential opportunities. * Feel free to connect with me to access my network deep in industry leadership.
We are on a mission to end waste. We help our partners find economic value in their waste streams and confidently execute on their sustainability goals. It’s not just about the physical waste that businesses and organizations produce in their daily operations—it’s also about wasted time, wasted money, and wasted energy. So while our work started with keeping materials out of landfills and creating a more circular economy through recycling and reuse, it continues to grow toward creating a more efficient and effective society. We manage all waste and recycling services through an extensive network of more than 8,000 vendor and hauler partners that service 200,000 customer locations. Our programs span cardboard (OCC), plastic, paper, metal, glass, electronics recycling, construction and demolition (C&D), organics recycling (including food waste and composting services), and single-stream recycling (SSR), hazardous materials, and many hard to recycle waste streams. A true solution provider for our customers. Our subject matter experts manage commodity markets, zero-waste programs, and other sustainability offerings across our portfolio.
Reshaping Plastic's Future ByFusion turns plastic pollution into a building solution. The ByFusion Blocker takes any category of unsorted, unwashed plastic and transforms it into ByBlocks and advanced building material with superior thermal and sound insulation. By 2050 humans are anticipated to produce 34B metric tons of plastic. Today only 9% of plastic is recycled. ByFusion’s solution is to give 100% of plastic a new life and make used plastic useful. My role is to assist the CEO on market strategy, relationships, thought partner, recruiting, capital raises and funding. I am honored to be apart of this journey with the talented CEO. Great strides have been made since inception with a positive future not just with sustainability but business scale. A value based business of doing the right thing with plastic waste ByFusion is doing their part to turn waste into opportunity that is best for society and our environment.
Divert is a provider of resource recovery services intended to manage food and organic byproducts from industrial, retail, and business. The company offers tools for organics tracking, and provides transparent date that integrate with existing workflow of industry operations. Divert enables clients to exceed diversion goals, progress reports on individual location performance and ensure cost savings. The organic waste is collected via best in class logistics, de-packaged, and used to create RNG at Divert anaerobic digesters located throughout the United States. As part of the Board of Directors I advise on the mission of the corporation, and act as a consultant and thought partner to Divert leadership team to aid and assist in the execution of the vision and ensured success.
Circulus utilizes cutting-edge technologies to transform olefin plastics into resins suitable for a variety of commercial and industrial applications. As the leader in the domestic circular economy, our advanced approach ensures post-consumer plastics are recycled and converted into resins for their highest and best use, keeping plastics out of landfills, incinerators, and they world’s waterways. Circulus is contributing to the circular economy by recycling plastics and eliminating waste. Circulus is leading the way in PCR flexible packaging offering multiple product lines to include FDA Food and Drug Administration applications. Select Achievements * GTM strategy evolution to broaden customer base and product lines. The result is diversified customer base, and ability to provide resin in multiple product applications. * Lead capital investments and engineering to ensure production rates, improve quality of materials, and automate processes. * Achieve FDA broad use LNO for multiple plant locations and able to provide PCR that is able to contact food and beverage. * IOT and sensor technology deployed for predictive maintenance to prevent unplanned maintenance and downtime. * Development of quality standard above and beyond market expectations, utilizing state of the art lab processes, industry partnerships, and proper procurement of feedstocks utilized to create best in class LDPE/LLDPE resin.
Ara Partners - Private Equity with focused investment strategy in the decarbonization and industrial sector. My role in the organization is to evaluate investment thesis, M/A activity as well advise portfolio company leadership related to operations, commercial, and human capital strategy. Assist in KPI development, interim leadership, talent sourcing, and other focused areas of concern within the portfolio companies. Portfolio companies that are supported: Blue Whale (Battery Recycling), Divert (Organic Waste & Energy), Circulus (Plastic Resin Production and Recycling), Repeats (Plastic Resin Production and Recycling - Europe), Genera (Plant Based Packaging)