Experience

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  Prette.

  • Greater Boston

  • Founder and CEO

    • Aug 2021 - Feb 2024
    • Greater Boston

    Prette is a niche online marketplace that connects people who sew their own clothes with sellers of designs and materials for fashion sewing. Fabric, sewing patterns, trims, notions and tools, it's a single place to get all that's needed to complete a garment project.

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  Compass Marketing Boston

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Partner

    • Dec 2008 - Jan 2022
    • Greater Boston Area

    Compass Marketing is a strategic marketing agency focused on uncovering, evaluating, and developing new growth opportunities in consumer products. We are guided by decades of client-side experience launching, managing, and growing world-class brands. We bring our clients:- An actionable roadmap f...

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  Procter & Gamble

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Marketing consultant

    • Jan 2007 - Jul 2008
    • Greater Boston Area

    Helped launch the Venus Embrace razor

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  Johnson & Johnson Inc.

  • Montreal, Canada Area

  • Group Product Director

    • Sep 2002 - Aug 2005
    • Montreal, Canada Area

    Responsible for managing brand teams developing short term and long term strategy for Canadian market for Baby (Johnson's Baby, Penaten), Wound Care (Band-Aid Brand), Women's Health (StayFree, Carefree, O.b.), Intimacy Enhancement (K-Y), and Oral Health brands (Reach). Participate on wor...

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  Microsoft

  • Greater Seattle Area

  • Product Manager at MSN

    • May 2001 - Sep 2002
    • Greater Seattle Area

    Responsible for strategies to better value the web advertising inventories on MSN.

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  The Gillette Company

  • United States
  • Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Product Manager

    • Jun 1996 - May 2001

    Product Management, both in Canada and the United States. Brand responsibilities over the years have included Male Blades and Razors (including Good News, Sensor, Mach3), Rechargeable toothbrushes (Braun Oral-B) and manual toothbrushes (Oral-B Stages).

  • Category Manager - Eastern Region

    • 1998 - 1999

    Saved a ton of Oral-B listings, followed the launch of Mach3 right trough to the retailer's desk, conducted category SKU rationalizations for all shaving categories.

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  The Gillette Company

  • Supervisor, Marketing Information

    • Jun 1992 - Jun 1996

    Responsible for all primary and secondary market research and syndicated data requirements for the Canadian consumer marketing group.