KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Revenue Growth & Profitability: Delivered over $150M in increased revenue and cost savings through strategic restructuring, operational improvement, and digital transformation. Taking a private forty-seven store retail mall jeweler, Whitehall Jewellers, from forty-seven stores to four hundred plus stores and going public.
• Team Leadership & Development: Built and led high-performance teams across multiple sectors, focusing on talent acquisition, performance management, and employee engagement.
• Operational Excellence: Led large-scale operational turnarounds, reducing costs by over $10M annually while improving service levels and operational efficiency.
• Mergers & Acquisitions: Orchestrated multiple successful mergers, integrations, and business restructuring efforts, including:
o The $100M integration of Pillar/Guggenheim and Cohen into SunTrust/Truist
o The growth, acquisitions and restructuring of $1B Apria Healthcare.
Experience
Seniority LevelMid-Senior level
Current StatusActive
Certification
Total Certifications2
FINRA Series 99: Operations Professional (6015564) - Dormant
Vistage CEO Peer Advisory Group (Leadership and Executive Coaching)