Canada
Seasoned Executive with 30 years of General Management & Marketing experience in leading FMCG firms. Strong drive for results with a consistent track-record for accelerating growth & exceeding business goals. Strong consumer focus, strategic approach, business acumen & contingency planning. Global mindset with broad FMCG experiences across North America, China, Singapore and other Asian markets. Proven ability to build teams and drive business impact across diverse cultures. Leadership agility with demonstrated capability to quickly adapt to new environments, focus energies to improve key business drivers, build teams and make significant contributions to accelerate overall growth.
GreenSpace is a North American branded food business that develops, markets and sells premium, predominately plant-based food products to consumers within the fast-growing Natural and Organic Food Market. GreenSpace owns LOVE CHILD ORGANICS, a producer of 100% organic food for infants and toddlers made with natural and nutritionally-rich ingredients, CENTRAL ROAST, a clean snacking brand featuring a wide assortment of nut and seed mixes and GO VEGGIE, one of the leaders in the US plant-based dairy market. All brands are wholly-owned and retail in a variety of online, natural and mass retail grocery locations.
Kona Trail Consulting Group unlocks significant value for its diverse clients across the Packaged Foods and the broader Consumer Products Industries. Kona Trail Consulting Group's clients include executive teams across leading food manufacturers, globally-renowned confectionery & snack firms and leading consumer products marketers and manufacturers. Kona Trail Consulting Group unlocks value for its portfolio of clients across North America and Asia via its proven Focused Growth Model approach: quickly assessing, reimagining and rewiring each businesses' strategic foundations, unleashing new growth vectors with urgency and transforming business models and organization capabilities to enable breakthrough business and financial results.
Responsible for building the Dole Packaged Foods business across the Asia-Pacific Region. Business scope includes all Retail, Foodservice and Industrial commercial units across Asia, 5 strategic manufacturing sites and over 20 co-manufacturing partners supplying high quality fruit products, fruit beverages and fruit snacks to global markets. Championed significant business and organization transformation, dramatically improving EBIT and Net Income to highest-ever levels of profitability in the history of the Division. Led diverse team to aggressively improve innovation, marketing and quality impact, radically simplify sku complexity, reduce overall product costs, close or sell non-core assets, streamline organization structure and improve culture of accountability across team of 25,000+ associates across Asia.
Operating Company leader for Perfetti Van Melle's enterprise in China. Responsible for building a world-class team and turning around its China Confectionary business, including well-loved brands such as Alpenliebe candy, Mentos candy & gum, and Chupa Chups lollipops. Responsible for restoring the business to growth, significantly improving commercial disciplines and competitiveness, boosting market shares in key categories and making China the #1 Country within the Group globally. Overhauled Route-to-Market design for the business, boosting Sales and Trade Marketing capabilities & business impact across a 5,000+ person commercial team. Significantly improved manufacturing disciplines & organization model across 4 manufacturing sites, resulting in breakthrough customer service, quality & productivity improvements. Drove talent and organization development, strengthened capabilities & leadership across functions, resulting in dramatic improvements in organization streamlining and employee engagement results.