Functional Skills

Product Strategy
Business Planning
Go-to-market Strategy
Market Mapping
Voice of the Customer

Software Skills

Microsoft Office

Sector Experience

Consumer Goods

Languages

English

Experience

Strategic Ingredient& Food Solutions LLC Management Consulting
Consultant
3/2016 - Present
Collaborates with food ingredient manufacturers in providing strategy, innovation & business development guidance.
Parabel Research
Vice President
6/2020 - 1/2021
Responsible for product development, refinement, characterization, and formulation; strategic direction of the pilot line; regulatory and clinical studies. Drives new product offerings and enhancements, and executes the product roadmap; shaped, supported, and launched the test marketing of Lentein product portfolio. Cross-functionally collaborates with senior stakeholders on roadmap priorities and provided strategic recommendations; drives change as a function of research and refinement.
Kaleido Biosciences Product Management / Strategy
Project Management Director
1/2019 - 11/2019
Kaleido Biosciences is a healthcare company with a chemistry-driven approach to leveraging the microbiome organ to treat disease and improve human health. Spearheads the implementation of project mission, vision, values, strategy, milestones, timelines, and financial modeling and analysis for the cardio-metabolic team.
Cadena Bio Product Management / Strategy
Sr Director of New Business Development
8/2016 - 12/2018
Shaped and supported strategic and new business planning including markets to target and maximizing opportunities. Conceptualized, developed, and implemented iterative high throughput human trials to guide product development and drive stakeholder confidence. Architected and authored an efficient and innovative research model at the intersection of consumer, clinical and sensory insights; the vision was to identify compelling consumer nutrition business opportunities.
DuPont Nutrition & Health Product Management / Strategy
Director of Strategy & Global Business development
1/2011 - 3/2016
Orchestrated the identification, development, and commercialization of new non-soy protein business opportunities, including generation of strategy and business case, validation of value proposition, and business transition. Pressure tested the market value propositions of various new proteins and/or technologies, leading to implementation of projects in beverages and nuggets, and drove new business in 2016.
DuPont Nutrition & Health Marketing
Director of Dairy Venture Team Marketing
12/2007 - 12/2010
Guided the Identification, development, and commercialization of new soy protein business opportunities. Created a strategy and implementation plan to enable participation in the global social feeding market, igniting new channel sales revenues of $700,000 dollars. Drove ~30% of the total global business growth from 2010-2012 through the strategic development of process and content for project decision making.
Cargill, Inc Marketing
Marketing Manager
1/2001 - 11/2007
Discovered, identified, developed, and commercialized new business and emerging technology opportunities. Shaped, supported the executed business case for mixed tocopherols waste product as a functional antioxidant in plastics apps resulting in Y1 and Y2 sales of $150,000 dollars and $750,000. Developed a business case and launched a novel sodium reduction system and revolutionary sugar replacement design capability in 2007.