Weekly Featured Talent in Health and Wellness – April 11, 2024
Kalon Executive Search & Staffing will find you the right match in any health & wellness sector, including nutrition, beauty, and fitness. Here are our top 4 candidates of the week:
Exton – CEO
Exton, a seasoned C-suite executive with a distinguished career at several top-tier businesses, excels in transformative change and delivering exceptional results globally.
She led revenue growth, including a 15x increase to $50 million in the product category.
Exton turned around a nutraceutical company, reversing a 200% EBITDA loss to 20% profitability.
She built high-performance cultures, increasing operational efficiency and profitability.
Exton negotiated supply agreements, reducing costs and boosting profitability.
She tripled revenue to $15 million in 6 months in Central America.
She launched 500+ products globally, generating over $1 billion in new revenues.
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David – Sales Professional
David is a highly experienced sales professional with an extensive and diversified background in the life sciences.
He brought growth and profits to each of his roles in the past 12 years of his professional career and is a supreme advocate for health, life science, and well-being.
Since graduating from USC with a bachelor’s in human biology, David has combined his science degree and sales skills to be a constant sales champion in each of his roles.
He is a major advocate for health, life science, and longevity.
David has generated over 20 cold clients to repeat order clients in the first year of his current role and brought in over $1.2M in total sales for his current role selling lab consumables to universities, research centers, biotech companies, and the like-many of which are interloped with this industry.
David grew his territory by a minimum of 100% at each of the sales roles he has taken, continuously earning awards and recognitions for his success, such as the coveted President’s Club award at a top-tier pharmaceuticals company, given only to the top 12 representatives in the nation out of 500 sales representatives.
David understands his territory comprehensively and is very well connected in his networks, especially in Southern California.
With over 10 years of experience in B2B sales, pharmaceutical sales, and biotech sales, he is an ideal candidate.
In addition, he has successful experience helping to launch brand new products to market and continuously ranks amongst top sales leaders.
He can handle a diversified range of responsibilities, including leading an effective sales team.
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Shain – Sr. Sales Leader
Shain has been a dynamic Senior Sales Leader in the cannabis space for 5+ years and has developed strong business contacts.
Shain increased retail sales by 3,600% within the 1st year at his current position at a premier cannabis business while building numerous sales opportunities that include direct retail, e-commerce, distribution, and wholesale channels.
He also has spent the last 5 years in the cannabis industry building brands and operations to support the brands while managing teams to grow business units into multimillion-dollar revenue streams.
Shain brings a wealth of skill sets to the wellness industry, having been involved at the grassroots level in cannabis, creating consumer goods packaging, supply chains, inventory management, and logistics.
He creates SOPs, pitch decks, pricing, sales forecasting, and planning, manages budgets and P&Ls, secures strategic partnerships, establishes sales quotas, measures sales pipelines, manages brand ambassadors, marketing, and PADs, secures investor funding, and more.
Shain spent more than two decades in executive-level roles, managing sales teams regionally and nationally within complex sales environments.
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Shaun – VP of Global Sales
Shaun is an accomplished Vice President with extensive experience leading sales, development & maintenance for key global accounts for ingredients, nutrition brands, and CPG companies.
In addition to key account management, he is a natural “hunter”, and his new business acquisition abilities remain accessible when needed.
Shaun has diverse experience in engaging with key stakeholders from the commercial/operational side and the technical/science audience.
Shaun’s professional experience within the nutra/supplement space ranges across the full value chain; at the ingredient level, as a CDMO, and as a CPG brand owner.
Because of this, he understands the needs and pain points of almost all key functions in these sectors.
Shaun also has experience launching a company from the ground up (CPG brand) and managing commercial responsibilities of spinning out an organization to a new entity (ingredient supplier/CDMO-level).
Shaun has led, negotiated, and fully executed numerous global sales contracts/supply agreements with leading firms within the dietary supplement and nutraceutical industry.
He worked with several big-name clients.
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