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I am a strategic marketing expert with decades of experience as an entrepreneur and corporate business leader.

Hire me if you need a consultant to help with a food or beverage start-up, growing a B2B brand, developing a new brand or product name, developing marketing plans, or finding an advertising agency.

Or, if you want to conduct qualitative or quantitative research, build a new website, or accelerate growth, I can help.

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  • How a CPG Kid Found His Roots
    How Marc Connor is building rootberry Some founders stumble into the food business. Marc Connor was raised in it. I met Marc through my friend Mike Schall, who has a gift for connecting people who should know each other. Mike was right again. A few minutes into our call, I knew I wanted to tell… Read more: How a CPG Kid Found His Roots
  • Arshad Bahl is The Reluctant Businessman
    How Arshad Bahl Built AMRITA When I interview a founder, I always start with their childhood. I do that partly because of my own story. My maternal grandfather was an immigrant and a commercial photographer, and when people ask me how my career began, I take them back to the day he put a camera… Read more: Arshad Bahl is The Reluctant Businessman
  • The Proof Is in the Pint
    Jenn Randall and Dirk Brown Are Building PROOF Hard Ice Cream Back in the late 1970s, my wife and I sold our brownies frozen. It was the only way an all-natural baked good could survive the trip from our Philadelphia kitchen to a convenience store counter. I quickly learned that frozen is hard. Freezer trucks… Read more: The Proof Is in the Pint
  • Kraut Krackers Wants a Direct Line to Your Gut
    How a small team in California turned a juice bar side project into a fast-growing cracker brand by making everything themselves and selling direct. In the last year, I have used one brand as an example with my clients when we talk about innovation. Most food founders I meet want to compete inside an existing… Read more: Kraut Krackers Wants a Direct Line to Your Gut