Innovation Strategy Expert Consultant

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Summary

This Innovation Strategy Expert Consultant has broad and deep business leadership and operating experience with the distinct advantage of (10 years) business analysis and finance, (20+ years) C-level and more recently consulting for private and public large/mature, start-up and growth-stage, pivoting and turnarounds in financial and business services as well as numerous SaaS/Cloud and technology services businesses. Importantly, his long-demonstrated ability to be effective in varied and challenging situations has not been hindered by a lack of previous experience in a role, environment or industry. This Innovation Strategy Expert Consultant is naturally entrepreneurial, focused on building and growing, but also disciplined in his thinking and execution. He is a consummate leader that in addition to significant skills and experience uses natural collegiality, good instincts, solid intuition and integrity to guide his approach and decision-making.

This Innovation Strategy Expert Consultant has led numerous entrepreneurial and turnaround endeavors in both financial services and technology businesses quickly and effectively analyzing situational conditions, hiring and formulating teams, collaborating on direction-setting/planning based on strategic imperatives, establishing necessary processes and providing hands-on effective execution largely meeting expectations under often very challenging circumstances. This Innovation Strategy Expert Consultant adds an analytical mindset, a preference for data-driven decisions and sufficient deliberation while maintaining a sense-of-urgency about acting and optimal execution. He is an articulate, high energy, dedicated, hard-working, completely dependable, trustworthy and results-driven executive capable of working at all levels within and across an organization and external stakeholders.

Highlights

• 10 years commercial and investment banking
• 20 years C-level start-up/pivot experience
• 4 years fractional executive and consulting
• B2B, B2G, B2C and B2B2C markets
• Analyzing, negotiating, financing alliances
• Investment and acquisition due diligence
• Leader, mentor, coach, manager
• Team building, strategy, operations
• Plan, process, metrics/KPI development
• Transformation, innovation, change management
• Direct and channel sales, client and partner relationship management

Relevant Accomplishments

• Conducted due diligence on an early-stage software business for an 8-figure investment by a Fortune 316 financial services company and supported follow-on business integration.
• Led stabilization, turnaround and repositioning of a mission-critical global Cloud Operations department at a $130 million end-point data back-up, security and recovery business.
• Led financial, operational and strategic turnaround of a 200 employee, 25-year-old customer experience measurement business in decline for over 6 years.
• Co-founded and have led the start-up phase of a new SaaS/Cloud-based solution for enterprise stakeholder engagement and marketing content creation tool (simultaneous to the above two).
• Hired by venture capital investors into a struggling-to-emerge early-stage software business to operationalize, pivot strategy, build new product and go-to-market in large enterprise.
• As first employee/President led the start-up, emerging and growth phases of a new SaaS/Cloud-based B2B product/brand security solution. Led initial and ongoing planning, product development, fiscal management, global channel sales development (e.g. 3M), client sales efforts, etc. for 9 years.
• Hired to turn around an insolvent legacy systems integration business and simultaneously start a new network management software business to fulfill a contract to the Iowa Communications Network. Finalized turnaround within 2 years, divested legacy business and built software business to $5m in revenues, 55 employees and negotiated an offer to acquire the business by Polycom.

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