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Vice President Revenue / Sales

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Proven global brand leader with a track record of driving profitable growth across early-stage and established companies. Leveraging 20+ years of hands-on experience leading sales, strategy, marketing, and operational functions to routinely deliver against company objectives through a deep understanding of consumer needs and whitespace opportunities as well as an acute ability to drive teams to action through setting a shared and compelling vision. Experienced in building highly engaged teams and leading at all levels of the organization.

Island is a Cannabis brand that has been around since 2015; it prides itself on being an authentic lifestyle brand that creates holistic experiences for its consumers.

• Established Island as a “must-have” vs. a “nice-to-have” brand through:
              o Identifying new distribution partners to accelerate speed-to-market and data analytics. 
              o Reestablishing the “Island brand story” in a compelling and emotionally relatable way. 
              o Setting up a profit-maximizing financial strategy across all big and small retail partners.

Representative Accomplishments:
• Successfully led coordinated sales strategy across multiple revenue channels through a deep understanding of and attention to different customer and consumer needs.
• Overhauled product strategy with innovation, price, promotion, and placement of products resulting in upwards of 600% same-store growth.
• Increased Island Gross Margin by 10%+ through incremental SKU innovation and supply chain optimization.
• Implemented improved sales tracking and inventory/planning systems to hit key revenue deliverables by territory,
shop, and SKU.
• Stategicly executed a comprehensive sales plan for the brand, outlining bottoms-up strategic opportunities in all top,
mid, and opportunistic door accounts to drive revenue growth amid challenging industry dynamics.
• Built a sustainable sales ecosystem that drives P&L accountability to reps by region and account.
• Rebranded all social/brand channels and messaging, increasing followers and “fans” of the brand by 300%.

Lowell is a cannabis industry leader who sets the standard in branding, packaging, and quality. Our strategic objective is
to create the number one lifestyle cannabis brand throughout the US.
•	Built results-driven sales and marketing teams. Increased revenues from $700k to $4.5 million in less than two years.

Representative Accomplishments:
•	Responsible for topline expansion through channel and geographical expansion. Successfully launched Lowell's D2C
business in April.
•	Grew revenue by 300% in Lowell's top-tier shops through implementation of new brand/merchandising guidelines and shop-in-shop experiences.
•	Expanded Lowell's market share by 200% through developing and launching full lifestyle and key SKU's.
•	Increased same store sales by 150% through a productivity analysis and SKU rationalization.
•	Developed a budtender program to drive brand awareness and top line growth. This resulted in significant month-over-
month sales increasing from 100% to 600%.
•	Sourced and executed brand building partnerships with Gladd, Jack Harar, Fred Segal, and Chateau Marmont.
•	Built high performing teams and established scalable sales systems to track department's KPIs and drive sales
accountability against company objectives.
•	Spearheaded cross-functional systems and processes to manage and successfully launch new products.
•	Expert in building, coaching, and developing teams.
•	Determine and monitor sales/marketing key performances.
•	Developed all sales SOP's, training, and on-boarding materials that resulted in increased team performance and supported company sales objectives.

Vice President Sales / Marketing

•	Family-owned and operated fashion brand, acquired by CAA and Sandow Media to develop a new store concept with expansion through retail and wholesale business globally.
•	Created Fred Segal's first private label brand for the U.S. and global markets while achieving sales of $1M in the first
year and $3.5M in the second year with a 71% blended gross margin.

Representative Accomplishments:
•	Worked collaboratively with the executive leadership team, CAA, and a private equity firm to develop and execute
short-term and long-term strategic business sales plan.
•	Recruited, trained and managed a high-performing global sales team of eleven, provided inspiration, direction, coaching
and results-driven planning to achieve consistent performance in building Fred Segal's start-up brand.
•	Coordinated with Marketing at CAA to maximize product sales strategy, celebrity endorsements, social media, brand
endorsements and global brand initiatives for Fred Segal. Increased website traffic, sales and conversion via drivers,
third-party partnerships, and site optimization.
•	Exceeded global sales goal by 200%.

Executive Vice President

Created and developed a global women's lifestyle brand from conception through execution. Built the company to $50M
in annual sales; successfully and profitably sold the company.

Representative Accomplishments:
•	Built, trained and coached from conception a globally successful and profitable sales team. Set up global sales
distribution in US, UK, Asia, Canada, Australia and Italy.
•	Designed business strategy, brand wireframes, marketing content, and digital platforms.
•	Enabled eCommerce (Shopify, Amazon.com, and other online footprints, giving the brand a true omnichannel presence.
•	Provided leadership to supply chain to ensure production launched on-time and delivered against sales and profit goals;
set and drove accountability against financial targets and project budgets.
•	Successfully built a brand that was featured in Vogue, all fashion magazines, and all major on-line outlets.
•	Major celebrity following of all the A-List Celebrities who endorsed this brand through social media and word-of-
mouth.
•	Created, developed, and nurtured top-line relationships with key accounts including: Barneys, Bloomingdales, Saks, and Niemen Marcus. Forecasted inventory levels throughout all 700 global retail chains through strategic planning.

Co-Founder - President of Sales / Marketing

Built global high-performance results driven global sales team of 45 from startup to $20M annually for this men's and women's denim apparel company. Successfully sold business.

Co-founder -Vice President of Global Sales

•	Responsible for the global business of Men's Denim and T-Shirts for US, Canada, Europe, and Japan.
•	Exceeded plan quarter-over-quarter across all 550 US and 150 international stores.
•	Responsible for 2% of GAP Inc overall business.

Global Buyer / Merchandising

- CA, NV, WA, and OR.
•   Responsible for 150 retail stores and over 350 employees.
•   In-charge of the second highest grossing stores in company.

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Shaun Hurley is a Vice President Revenue / Sales at Island Company in Los Angeles, CA.

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AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY