COMPANY PREMISE: To lend strategic and tactical management skills in the emerging LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) marketplace. MBA-style consultancy with a sense of social purpose and integrity.

PERSONAL PROFILE:

• 20 years marketing and business development experience, including start-up team building and high income generating partnership alliances, usually at "C-level":
• Career professional with "blue chip" communications, media/entertainment and consumer goods industries.** In 1998, following a severe motor-sports accident, professional focus shifted towards socially conscious projects, as an independent.**
• Strategic thinker, able to shape product portfolio, "evangelize" leadership branding and execute communications and distribution plans with P/L responsibilities.
• Creative and diplomatic, with tri-lingual fluency and international management skills

EXPERIENCE

Cause Marketing for Charitable Trust, benefiting India's Poor India, US, Europe 1998-Present

• Achieved world-class news coverage for "Amma", (a rare humanitarian compared to Gandhi and Mother Teresa) in prestige media internationally.
• Negotiated the Gandhi-King Award for Non-Violence conferral, an award given only to Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandela, and Dr. Jane Goodall. Organized participation at the UN Millennium Peace Summit and Global Peace Initiative for Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders at the UN.
• Key Advisor to Charitable Trust

Dragonfly Media/Common Ground Magazine: San Francisco, CA, 2002 - Present

• Credited with substantially reversing advertising sales. Sales reversal helped bolster capital value of magazine, which was sold to Dragonfly Media in 2003. High Ground Consulting was retained to manage sales through the transition from a quarterly publication to a monthly.

Disney Interactive (Europe, Middle East & Africa) Paris, France 1995-1998
Sr. Manager/Director: Regional Marketing and Sales/Synergy

• Strategized and led marketing and sales operations for European launch of Disney Interactive. Reporting to General Manager.
• Sold OEM business development alliances. Key deal (with Hewlett Packard) generated over $14 million to bottom line in Year 1 and was credited for making division profitable.
• Ran console-based business, including selling strategic alliances and royalty agreements with Sony, Sega, Nintendo, Virgin and other Third Parties. P&L $15m+.
• Set-up comprehensive systems ranging from software localization, manufacturing, distribution, and customer service. Managed product branding, marcom, advertising, promotions, press relations, and trade show participation.

Disney Software-(Disney Consumer Products-Europe) Paris, France 1993-1995
Manager: France and Europe

• Managed $5m+ P&L for French territory, while serving as ìteam-leaderî for rest of Europe, driving some of the industryís top selling titles such as "Aladdin" and "The Lion King".
• Sold local and pan European retail partnerships with "blue-chip" companies such as McDonaldís, Coca Cola, Nestle, and IBM
• Negotiated and managed pan European sponsorship events (Disney style press-events) to leverage software and hardware alliances.

The Walt Disney Company (France) Paris, France 1991-1994
Manager: Marketing, Media & Business Development

• Marketing and new business development for Disney Consumer Products, (Licensed Goods, Books, Magazines, Software and Music). Generated new programs and strategic acquisitions
• $600K P&L for Disney media, including radio, telephony and Minitel, (a France Telecom precursor to the Internet). Developed four online B2C sites and one professional B2B site.
• Organized "Disney Synergy" in France, federating Theatrical, Video, Television, Consumer Products, Euro Disney, and retail activities for purposes of cross-marketing and corporate Brand Management.
• Editor in Chief and Business Director of "Disney News", a high image B2B magazine publicizing Disney's market leadership.

New York Trade International New York, NY 1988-1991
Principal: export trade sales and consulting services

• Entrepreneurial B2B initiative; worked with Latin America, Europe, and New York clients.

Conde Nast Publications - GQ Magazine New York, NY 1987-1988
Advertising Sales Representative

• Apparel, Telecom, and Financial categories
• $1.5m+ billings

Grey Advertising, Inc. New York, NY 1983-1987
Media Dept: Planner/Group Supervisor

• Managed $85m+ annual billings plus many new business pitch assignments
• Procter & Gamble (Food Brands), Automotive (Quaker State, BF Goodrich, STP) Consumer Electronics (Panasonic/Technics), Liquor (Gordon's, Piper-Heidseick), U.S. Government (Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines) Hotels (Holiday Inn), Pharmaceutical (3M), others.
• Involved in numerous new business pitches.

CBS Records International Paris, France 1982

• European Marketing: Artist Development/Tours & Promotion. Worked with the likes of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Julio Iglesias, The Clash, UB40, others.

EDUCATION

New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
M.B.A. Management/International Business, Stern Scholar New York, NY

Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC)
International Management Program, Paris (Jouy en Josas), France

Grinnell College
B.A. History Grinnell, IA

The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Born in California: Extensive overseas living, educational, work, and travel experience. High level fluency in French and Spanish. Valid European work permit.

PERSONAL INTERESTS: Spiritual philosophy combined with social service.