About
As an accomplished business leader with decades of professional experience creating, managing and enabling high performing management teams driving success in both private and publicly traded companies, I have lived through the highs and lows of growing and scaling companies. In that time, I have built a deep reservoir of experience and capabilities in defining strategy, aligning teams around a core purpose, and implementing systems of execution and accountability throughout an organization. My business expertise is complemented and enhanced by a prior career as a corporate/transaction attorney and public-company general counsel.
I have seen the effectiveness of the Scaling Up methods and tools as a CEO, and have experienced first-hand the value of engaging a coach to drive adoption and implementation of the Scaling Up methodology. With that bank of knowledge and experience, and having been trained and certified by the Scaling Up Coaches organization, I now pursue my passion for helping others succeed by offering coaching services to a diverse set of growth companies. These services are customized and include helping them implement Scaling Up in a manner that facilitates their strategic thinking and execution across their organizations. I understand the challenges that growth companies face across the domains of people, strategy, execution and cash, and help CEOs and their management teams learn to do things right and solve their most critical business problems. Those I have coached praise my practicality, reason, directness, ethics and ability to foster success and manage crisis with even temperament and sound judgement.
Executive Team Building
Mergers & Acquisitions
Corporate Strategy
Business Development
Corporate Partnerships 7 JVs
Investor Relations
Employee Engagement
Succession Management
Crisis Management
Sounding board to Board and senior leadership
Leadership Expertise
Seasoned CEO of multiple private and public companies
Trained as corporate/securities/M&A attorney
Public and private company board experience
Rose from General Counsel to CEO of 700 employee Nasdaq-listed company
Led JV with Fortune 500 company
Led deal team in $450 million sale of U.S.-based publicly traded pharma company to Japan-based publicly traded company and served as CEO of their US subsidiary for over six years
Led small-cap publicly traded biotech company through strategic transformation process
YPO member since 2010
Professional Highlights
Accounting degree from the Wharton School of Business
Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School
Live in Miami Beach, FL and travels frequently to the Boston area
Married with two children and two grandchildren
Enjoy learning, travel, golf, hiking, sports and spending time with family in Maine