The Branded Pantry

Successful solutions and innovation executive with extensive experience as CEO, CMO and Chief Customer Officer in startup, developmental and corporate environments.  I have led Consumer Packaged Goods service and technology companies and divisions of companies with revenues from $0 to $350,000,000.  The cornerstone strengths are:

·         Building, augmenting, tapping and leading great teams

·         Innovating new, profitable revenue generation strategies to create stakeholder value

·         Making strategic adjustments necessary to adapt to market realities and take advantage of emerging opportunities

·         A well honed ability to ferret out salient data with emerging market dynamics

·         Establishing or building upon relationships with clients, suppliers and industry forces to encourage early bets on emerging service or product concepts. 

Proven industry competencies in:

·         Innovation in the B2B, B2C and B2B2C digital media/e-commerce space particularly with regard to FMCG.  A steady track record of register ringing products, services and enhancements that have generated the most successful functional capabilities in grocery.

·         Leveraging current information in new ways or combining with new sources of information to either uncover fresh insights leading to market opportunities or to package and commercialize. 

·         Combining multiple channels of information about products and their consumers to yield and exploit new directions

·         Understanding product data vulnerabilities and opportunities

·         Unconventional approaches as well as traditional market and marketing research

·         An uncanny appreciation for and understanding of the intersection or the buyer, banner and brand at the point of purchase.

For a comprehensive list of innovations please see : http://panthermountaincompanies.com/Win-Novation.html

The collision of emerging technology, R&D and product management will often reveal under-appreciated/utilized assets which when appropriately tapped will generate profitable growth.  Leveraging this same set of skills also leads to extraordinary new ideas and breakthrough product solutions.   

I run a consulting group http://panthermountaincompanies.com/where I work with companies to achieve some of the activities above.  

In late 2008 we started ShelfSnap http://www.shelfsnap.com/.  ShelfSnap transforms digital pictures of in-store conditions into products, facings, positions and conditions.  With this image-recognition, unique technology we offer a clear view of the shelf that is unheard of in any industry, much less the rough and tumble FMCG space.

Give us a call at 224 848 4790