Experience

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  CoreTrust

  • Greater Nashville Area, TN

  • The Solutions Group. Hospitality, Real Estate & Facilities

    • 2018 - Apr 2024
    • Greater Nashville Area, TN

    Leading a highly skilled team of F&B and Facilities SME's to develop and support game changing solutions for our 2800+ Member companies across all areas of their direct and indirect spend stack."From rooftop to parking lot we have you covered" through best in class agreements an...

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  entegra Procurement Services

  • Harrisburg-Hershey Pennsylvania

  • National Director Business Development, Hospitality

    • 2012 - 2018
    • Harrisburg-Hershey Pennsylvania

    As a former client and hospitality executive, I was hired to lead entegra's GPO entry into the highly competitive hospitality/lodging segments. My depth of first-hand industry experience and extensive network of hospitality peers enabled me to quickly establish entegra as a credible hospital...

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  National Purchasing Network, NPN

  • Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

  • Principal-CEO, National Purchasing Network,

    • 2002 - 2012
    • Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

    Conceived, forged, and successfully grew a national Lodging procurement services company encompassing F&B, OS&E and FF&E areas of Hospitality members spend which exceeded $100M at time of departure.Our contracts, services and F&B expertise focused on the unique needs of the Hospit...

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  GF Management

  • Greater Philadelphia Area

  • Vice President of Food & Beverage

    • 2000 - 2012
    • Greater Philadelphia Area

    Established and maintained standards for all F&B operations across entire GF Managements portfolio of owned and managed properties. Grew revenues substantially with the creation of concept restaurants and a focus on intelligent menu execution(contribution to profit vs. food cost). Reduced ope...

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  Bertucci's

  • Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC

  • Regional Manager

    • 1996 - 2000
    • Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC

    Successfully oversaw the growth of Bertucci's during its public offering growth phase. to charge of the opening and day to day operations of new restaurants in the Maryland area. This region quickly became the most profitable region in the company and I was rewarded with additional oversight ...

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  Au Bon Pain

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • District manager

    • 1992 - 1996
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Charged with full operational and P&L responsibilities for what grew into the company largest district with 13 company owned Cafes. Strong focus on employee/management turnover and exceeding guest expectations created and environment where both revenues and profits exceeded budgeted expectati...

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  Clyde's Restaurant Group

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Corporate Pastry Chef- Executive Leadership Team

    • 1978 - 1992
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Established, built and staffed the first bakery/pastry commissary servicing all Clyde's restaurants concepts in the D.C. market. Create seasonal menus offered in each location as well as hired and trained all pastry staff deployed across the concepts.Concepts included Clyde's restaurants,...