Vice President Corporate Communications

Marketing & Advertising Professional Redwood City, California, United States

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I am a people-first executive who helps companies of all sizes achieve massive success in any market condition by embracing a human-centered communications philosophy. I take a fresh, efficient, outcomes-first approach to how work should be executed in the digital economy, fostering and creating long-term growth. I channel the energy of a relevant, mission-based narrative, as well as key business priorities, to galvanize high levels of success for organizations. This approach rewrites the rules of what is possible in the areas that matter the most: Loyalty and retention among employees, customers, and stakeholders.

Communication is easier than ever, but more difficult to achieve than ever before. I create strategies to make sense of what can be an intimidating mix of traditional and digital communication platforms. The result is the right mix of emotion, messaging and channels required needed to shape ideas into positive mindsets and support business growth.

Career highlights:
VP/Global Head of Corporate Communications for Avellino Lab, an exciting Silicon Valley biotechnology company where I created both the external and internal communication functions from the ground up. Avellino is a pre-IPO company who is focused on one of the most advanced areas of genomics, polygenic risk scores.

Communication leader for Becton Dickinsons (BD) fast-growing $4.7B Life Sciences unit with 10K+ employees globally, and also for its Biosciences business.

Guided BD Life Sciences management and the business during critical events via highly effective communication strategies, including the response to Covid-19; shift to a remote workforce and to 100% virtual events; furloughs; and business response to acts of social injustice.

Developed and led the communications strategy for UCPath, the University of Californias cloud-based HR management platform valued at $500M and implemented across the entire university system.

Successfully developed and implemented the communications strategy of the $950 million sale of the CPG division of Honeywell to Rank Group Limited.

Architected the communications strategy and guided Intermec through the $600M acquisition of the company by Honeywell.

Lead architect responsible for creating the global internal communications function for Adient and its 85K employees. Included developing the companys employee value proposition (EVP); an employee-centric communication philosophy and approach; and a digital literacy training series.