Baruch College

Williams College

Ridgefield High School

Director, Marketing & Communications at Minaris Regenerative Medicine

•	Directs organizational development and communications systems and programs across North America region of a leading contract development and manufacturing organization for the cell therapy industry
•	Developed five year culture transformation plan with input from leadership, employee focus groups, and surveys
•	Designed business case for and launched company's first diversity, equity and inclusion initiative, including regionally adopted position statement, steering committee and charter, and programs for employee and leadership engagement
•	Selected, developed and launched employee engagement survey platform through Microsoft's Glint, establishing a feedback/action cycle and employee perception trends
•	Piloted and launched professional development capabilities of Linkedin Learning, driving system utilization of the program to include more than half of employees
•	Developed three tiers of management development programs in coordination with head of Human Resources, spearheading the introduction of formal manager training programs for new managers and middle managers, as well as a leadership development program for company leaders
•	Developed and launched mentoring program, growing it to reach 20% of employees in its second year
•	Led committee to design and execute the company's first Take Your Child to Work Day, and led company Social Committee to plan and execute celebrations that support social connections and employee morale
•	Managed staff of two direct reports as well as summer interns, investing in their professional and career development, while managing performance and creating a positive and collaborative team environment

Minaris Regenerative Medicine

Director, Organizational Communications and Development

•	Directed marketing, communications, intelligence, and brand management
•	Rolled out company peer to peer appreciation system and company awards system as work transitioned toward organizational development
•	Revamped internal company communications including roll-out of new company intranet, process and controls around company communication
•	Lead a team of marketing professionals and vendors towards executing a digital marketing and conference marketing plan
•	Executed multiple site-wide and company-wide communications campaigns
•	Developed company relationship with Rutgers University towards co-developed course
•	Planned and executed new facility ribbon cutting event with state (Governor and legislators) and local government official involvement

Director, Marketing & Communications

Skills: Internal Communications · External Communications · Teamwork · Versatile Writer · Strategic Communications · Storytelling · Handle Confidential Information · Talking Points · Strategic Communications Counsel

Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions, LLC (formerly PCT Cell Therapy)

Director, Marketing and Communications

Led corporate communications and subsidiary marketing through the sale of subsidiary to Hitachi Chemical, including multiple stakeholder communication campaign and internal team redesign

Caladrius Biosciences

Director, Communications and Marketing

•	Led marketing for contract development and manufacturing subsidiary while leading investor-focused corporate communications
•	Produced two international adult stem cell conferences at the Vatican
•	Developed and executed over fifty press releases, aligning content with CEO and other stakeholders, including clients and suppliers.
•	Coordinated multiple quarterly investor earnings calls and internal company town hall meetings
•	Managed projects including press events, exhibitions, and database/software development

Manager of Communications and Marketing

Sales, marketing, and operations for an adult stem cell collection, banking, and research firm. Project management of press events, exhibitions, and database/software development. Marketing management of website and collateral materials. Marketing strategy advisement. IT management for office.

Project Manager

Specialize in business plan consulting, startup strategy and planning, presentations for investors, customers, and conferences, financial projections, analysis, and strategy, capital formation strategy, and financial risk analysis and management for a variety of clients.

Cayenne Consulting

Principal Consultant

Advise for-profit and non-profit clients including new product start-ups, cellular retailer, event space, language training center, web services, organizer, consulting firm, social service organizations, and theater company. Determine company challenges and objectives with CEO, develop strategy to build equity in the company, audit all company operations and sales processes, design new systems. Analyze financial data to create budget projections and pro forma financial statements in Excel. Manage projects including prorduct development and system implementation (time-tracking system using Freshbooks and wiki knowledge base using PBworks). Marketing and development projects for non-profits through Net Impact Service Corps. Share consulting concepts and frameworks on blog at ericcarlpowers.wordpress.com and business planning articles on Growthink.com

Powers Consulting

Principal

Sold corporate and private language training and translation services for eight languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, English, Chinese, and Japanese. Teachers trained by Dr. Tom Means, company founder and president, using his proprietary teaching method developed through experimental research.

Means Language Center

Director

·	Sold rental space for events in Chelsea resulting in sales over $800,000 to individuals, non-profits and corporate clients such as AMC, Condè Nast, Fox, Bose, NIKE, Hasbro and IBM
·	Grew the company from a start-up to profitability by its third year in collaboration with a small team
·     Created sales reports, analyzed sales and financial data, identified trends and made recommendations for increasing sales and cutting costs
·	Supervised two employees whose responsibilities included all event fulfillment, event management, accounts payable and accounts receivable
·     Administered client accounts, directed venue operations and planned events and meetings 
·     Managed vendor relationships with A/V, lighting, cleaning, security, IT and staffing companies
·     Prepared annual budget 
·     Was fully responsible for event coordination and supervision
·     Implemented ACT! database and Microsoft Excel sales accounting systems

Helen Mills Event Space and Theater

Associate Director

Co-founded start-up website, interviewed and hired staff writers, developed operations plan, edited reviews. Developed strategic plan to increase website visitors and advertising revenues.

offoffonline

Managing Editor

Fundraising coordination, grant-writing, donor appeal letters, new database implementation, website upgrade, Gala and cultivation event planning

Eric Powers