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

Personal Highlights