Chris Browning, a global commercial leader with broad experience across the Consumer-Packaged Goods industry has joined the disruptive executive search firm, Carpe Diem Global Partners.
Effective immediately, Chris Browning will lead the firm’s commercial engagements across all verticals. As a Managing Partner, Chris will be an active client engagement leader in retained search and in the firm’s diagnostic consulting services.
“With the addition of Chris to our team, Carpe Diem Global Partners extends its functional expertise to growth minded clients looking to target, assess and acquire world class commercial leaders. Examples might be commercially leaning Chief Executive Officers, Chief Customer Officers, Chief Commercial Officers, Chief Growth Officers and/or SVP Sales and Marketing roles,” stated Jeff DeFazio, founding Partner of Carpe Diem Global Partners.
For decades, Chris has led Fortune 500 multinational customer relationships including Yum Brands, Costco, Walmart, Sam’s, Aldi, Shell Oil, BP and numerous retail and foodservice customers around the world. Chris has accumulated a deep understanding of the levers and leadership skills needed to drive over-indexed commercial results within some of the world’s most progressive and commercially innovative brands, Tyson Foods, Coca-Cola, and Gallo Winery. Chris has monetized those skills for private equity companies by rapidly growing and taking portfolio companies, Blue Rhino and Circle Foods, through successful exits.
Chris’s functional leadership expertise includes building sales team capabilities, go-to-market channel strategies, and brand building taking account of consumption trends, growing investments in digital marketing, merchandising and activation strategies.
“Chris’s arrival strengthens our ability to design targeted search strategies and rigorously assess candidates at more precise and faster cadence for our clients,” stated DeFazio.
“I am truly excited to join Carpe Diem Global Partners and help extend the firm’s reinvented executive search experience for clients and candidates into commercial roles for Consumer, Industrial and Technology oriented clients. Having worked globally with many search firms as both a client and candidate, I have received a varied set of experiences. The reinvented search process at Carpe Diem Partners, combines industry best practices, a world class technology stack, razor-sharp client delivery capability and an exceptional team environment where highly collaborative functional leaders deliver superior service and results to clients and candidates” said Chris.
“We are absolutely delighted and honored to have Chris choose Carpe Diem Global Partners for its culture, community, mission and values,” stated DeFazio.
Carpe Diem Global Partners is a consultancy intent on reinventing the conventional experience to executive search for clients and candidates. The firm is focused on Talent Management and Acquisition of world class talent: Boards Members, Chief Executives, CXO’s, Presidents and their direct reports. Carpe Diem advises multiple Fortune 100, Private and Investor-backed companies on leadership imperatives. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA with national presence and global experience in all regions. For more information, contact us at info@carpediempartners.com.