Marketing Experts - Biographies
Steve
Adolph
Julie Roth
Bill Colaianni
STEVE
ADOLPH, international marketing expert
Steven
Adolph is an international general manager, marketing
and sales executive with 15 years experience in leading
consumer packaged goods, food ingredient and most
recently consumer durable companies to achieve business
objectives. He is recognized for his ability to drive
sales and profitability by building strong, confident
and passionate teams and successfully lead them through
periods of significant organizational and economic
change. He has a proven track record of not only developing
and launching brands in 30+ countries but also establishing
the supply chain network to bring these products from
manufacturing plant to store shelf.
Steve
recently accepted a new position as the new V.P. International
for the Sentry Group. In this role he will be responsible
for all of Sentry's international business with a
particular focus on Asia/Pacific and Europe. Sentry
currently has offices in China, Japan, the U.K., and
Belgium. They sell into over 60 countries worldwide.
Sentry
Group is the world leader in fire-resistant and security
storage. They manufacture, market and sell a wide
range of safes and containers, predominantly to the
consumer market. They have extensive distribution
in global 100 retailers such as Wal-Mart, Costco,
Home Depot, Office Max, Carrefour, Ahold, and Tesco.
Prior
to Sentry, Steve spent 15 years working both domestically
and internationally for the consumer products division
of Monsanto which was later spun off to become Merisant,
a privately held Chicago based company. During his
tenure he focused primarily on Equal and NutraSweet,
the #1 global sugar substitute brands.
As
the V.P. General Manager of Asia/Pacific, Steve developed
an expertise of the region, living both in Singapore
and Sydney. He set up the marketing, sales, manufacturing
and distribution structure for the 15 countries in
the region which were as follows: Australia, New Zealand,
Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand,
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, India, China, Hong Kong,
Taiwan, China.
More
recently, Steve relocated back to Chicago were he
was the V.P. Global Business Development. He successfully
launched Equal candies and chocolates throughout the
world which represented the first global line extensions
in the company’s 20 year history.
Steve
has a B.A. from Duke University and an MBA from Northwestern’s
Kellogg School of Management.
Contact
Info:
Steven J. Adolph
V.P. International, Sentry Group
Office: 773-645-4461
Mobile: 312-493-5030
steveadolph@ameritech.net
JULIE
ROTH, Senior Marketing Executive
Julie
Roth is a Senior Marketing Executive with an extensive
background in marketing consumer and industrial durable
goods. Originally from El Salvador but of German heritage,
she is bilingual (English and Spanish) and speaks
German. She believes her experiences finding similarities
between different cultures have led to successes conducting
business throughout the Americas, Asia and Europe.
Her career began in the field of research where, as
a market research analyst, she forecasted specific
industry performance by gathering and evaluating published
industry statistics, including country specific Gross
Domestic Product (GDP), leading industry drivers of
GDP (agriculture, electronics, chemicals, automobiles,
etc.), imports, exports, the competitive landscape,
and even demographics, to name a few. She learned
early on that such information is truly the foundation
for uncovering market opportunities.
Market research became the cornerstone of building
a 20+ year marketing career that includes specific
functions of Global Category Management, Global Product
Management, Global Brand Management, and New Business
Development with companies including Knowles Electronics,
Motorola, U.S. Robotics, and Cobra Electronics.
Julie
is a member of the International Executives Group,
a roundtable composed of cross-functional leaders
with special international interests. Julie is currently
in transition and continues to evaluate senior executive
consumer durables and industrial marketing opportunities.
In today’s economy, Julie can make an immediate
impact in:
BILL
COLAIANNI , international marketing expert
Bill
Colaianni is a global marketing executive and general
manager with 25 years experience in all major Latin
American and Caribbean countries. He recently founded
Arawak Consulting, a strategic marketing practice
with a focus on the Americas.
Bill
retired from The Coca-Cola Company in 2002. He was
most recently Vice President and General Manager for
Coca-Cola Caribbean, a $500 million business which
he managed out of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Prior to
that, he was Managing Director for Coca-Cola’s
$1 billion operations in Chicago, Indiana, Northern
Ohio, upstate New York, and Pennsylvania.
Before
joining The Coca-Cola Company, Bill was Vice President
and General Manager, Latin America for Monsanto Company’s
NutraSweet division. He pioneered Monsanto’s
entry into the Latin America food ingredient and consumer
products markets. He created a $50 million business
through the use of distributors, JV partners in Mexico
and Argentina; acquisitions in Chile, Argentina, and
Colombia; and entirely new entities including manufacturing
facilities in Brazil and Argentina.
Bill
has also held a number of manufacturing, quality,
and logistics positions including head of global facilities
planning for G.D. Searle (now part of Pfizer) and
head of production, engineering, and distribution
for Searle’s consumer division.
He
is a past guest lecturer at the University of Miami
on creating and building strategic alliances in Latin
America. He has also been a regular speaker to the
Congressional Black Caucus on industrial issues in
the Caribbean and is an occasional advisor to Kellogg
Graduate School of Management faculty conducting research
on corporate capital allocation decisions.
He
has an MBA in Marketing and General Management from
Northwestern and has participated in advanced management
programs at Harvard Business School. He also holds
an MS in Biochemistry from The University of Chicago
and a BS in Chemistry from the University of Illinois
at Chicago.
Bill
speaks Spanish and Portuguese and lives with his wife
and two daughters in Lake Forest, Illinois.
