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President

Fellowes , Inc. is a staffing and recruiting agency which located in IL,United States.

A brand & marketing executive leader with extensive background in both consumer packaged goods marketing leadership + leading external and in-house agencies. Deeply convicted advocate of a "consumer first" marketing and branding approach to create powerful consumer & brand connections that drives growth. As a CPG marketing and innovation leader, I've led growth and served in various executive leadership roles across household brands such as Sara Lee, Hillshire Farm, Quaker Oats, Fellowes, Bankers Box, Perdue, Hillshire Farm, Hunt's, Orville Redenbacher, EarthGrains, Ball Park, Hebrew National and Healthy Choice. I've had the opportunity to lead at the executive level across routes to market including and B2C, B2B, DTC, and DSD routes to market. As an innovation leader, I've helped start-up innovation teams, filled new product pipelines, and commercialize successful new launches. As an agency leader, I've created and led a best-in-class in house agency within a billion dollar global organization, scratched my entrepreneurial itch by starting a creative design agency that has thrived for the past 10 years, and served as President/CEO of a digital, packaging and innovation agency. Across these roles I've integrated and built capabilities across strategic brand positioning, digital marketing, SEO, social, photo, video, public relations, external agency management, integrated advertising campaigns, CRM, MarTech, new product launch, events, sports partnership, Amazon A+, packaging, in-store, and shopping marketing. Notable Experiences: PIVOT FORWARD | Founder (2012-current) | www.pivot-forward.com Founded and launched a creative design agency that specialized in creative brand identity, digital, packaging and activation for various industries including consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, service, education, and start-ups. Clients include Perdue, State Fair, Johnsonville, Tony Romo’s, Treehouse, Urban Farmer, Kronos, Designetics, Terminix, and Elim Schools. RUN ACROSS ILLINOIS - Founder Run Across Illinois is a 158 mile relay that is run by over twenty two participants across the state of Illinois, from the Mississippi River to the Indiana Border. 100% of the proceeds for the run will go to benefit the Alzheimer's Association fight to find a cure. www.RunAcrossIllinois.org