UW Foster School of Business

University of Washington

Managing Partner and CEO at Clayton Kendrick INC

HR Lead, Operations Lead and Enterprise Sales Lead for Black Tie Mercantile, an Amazon partnered CPG E-Commerce sales and marketing business. HR Business Lead responsible for hiring, training, reviewing and retaining 12 FTEs. Key Account Lead responsible for growing 45 CPG companies 3PL businesses on Amazon.com. Responsible for P & L of $6mm ARR business. Responsible for manufacturing operations and supply chain efficiency from Seattle production site to Amazon FCs. Responsible for $200k annual Paid Search spend. Owner of KPIs for 700 SKU E-Commerce Business. Created core SIOC offering of the signature BlackTie Box that became #1 Specialty Confection Gift brand on Amazon. 12 FTEs recruited, hired, retained and annually reviewed. Responsibilities included KPI definition and tracking, CQI with products and processes, expanding category specific NPIs per vendor sales initiatives and implementing agile change management strategies to comply with FBA adaptive supply chain. 300k unit volume per annum. Key Accounts included Jelly Belly, Ghirardelli and Tootsie Roll.

Black Tie Mercantile

Senior Managing Partner

REFLX Labs Inc. is a Seattle, Washington based company dedicated to the development of wireless gaming hardware which may be used across all gaming platforms and systems. Boogio is no longer a going concern.

REFLX Labs, Inc.

Financial Modeling, market analysis, cash flow analysis and go to market strategy.

Infinite Bottling

CLAYTON KENDRICK, INC.

Founder and CEO

Over the course of my 5 year run at Amazon, I had 10 different bosses, 11 different work stations, and I migrated from being the Specialty and Gourmet Food Category Manager to Seller Tools and then to Fulfillment by Amazon as a senior PM. Details of these various roles available on CV.

Amazon.com

Sr. Product Manager Amazon

Inventer  of  the  first  caffeine  based  confection  by  researching,  developing,  financing,trademarking, creating and launching Penguin®Caffeinated Mints and Energy Gum•Directed  the  debt  financing,  packaging  design,  go  to  market  strategy,  PR/  Ad  campaign,trademarking, corporate structure, FDA compliance, hiring of staff and pro-forma financials•Built company from $200k to $2.0mm in sales in 4 years•Built broker network to reach distribution to 5,000 retail locations and then hired and passed this to Director of Sales•Converted from retail distribution business into consumer direct Internet commerce site with 25,000 direct customers.

Penguin Caffeinated Breath Mints

CEO and Founder

Key Account Manager for merchandising and selling relationships with National Book, Software and Toy Retail Chains. Accounts included Target, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, AAFES, Borders, Gamestop, Software Etc., Electronics Boutique, B. Dalton, Waldenbooks and Toys R Us.

Brett Canfield