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Today's Featured Biography
Peter Klein
Peter founded PK Associates on the belief that fact-based, information-driven insights, need-to-do analytics, and the proven experience of a proven 'seniors-only' team will meaningfully benefit client's in more predictably growing, managing and leading their businesses.
From March, 2001 through September, 2005, Mr. Klein was Senior Vice President and Corporate Officer of The Gillette Company, responsible for Strategy, Planning, Business Development and Global Marketing Resources; reporting to the Chairman/CEO. He left Gillette after change-in-control following the sale of Gillette to Procter & Gamble, which he actively participated in.
Previously he was Executive Vice President and Corporate Officer of Strategy, Business Development, Marketing Services and Global e-Business at Nabisco Holdings Corp. from January 1998 through December, 2000; and departed Nabisco, along with other senior executives, following Nabisco's public auction and sale to Phillip Morris/Kraft Foods in late December, 2000.
Mr. Klein came to Nabisco with about 12 years of consumer product company experience and 17 years of management consulting experience. He directed Nabisco’s long-term strategy, assured the alignment of corporate strategies with operating unit and functional group plans, developed and implemented cross-company internal and external business development (acquisitions, divestitures, licensing, JV's), and directed integrated marketing intelligence, marketing services (i.e., market research, consumer promotion, media buying) and global e-Business. He also directed the Nabisco acquisition of United Biscuit (voted European Deal of the Year in 2000) and the auction of Nabisco (largest auction of a U.S.-based public company and voted U.S. Deal of the Year in 2000).
Mr. Klein joined Nabisco from The Cambridge Group, where he was a Partner & Managing Director for 7 years of its east coast office, which he opened in 1991. Prior to joining The Cambridge Group, he was a senior partner for 10 years at Marketing Corporation of America ('81-'91), where he led the Consumer Products management consulting practice.
Before consulting, he worked in line sales, marketing and business development at Sterling Drug (Vice President, Business Development), The Gillette Company (Director of Marketing & Sales for Braun North America and Group Marketing Manager in Personal Care), Johnson & Johnson (Consumer Trade Promotion and Marketing), and Richardson-Merrell (Field & Headquarter Sales).
Mr. Klein was educated at Syracuse University (B.S. in Marketing & Finance, '68) and Harvard Business School (MBA, '71) and holds two U.S. patents. He is on the academic advisory board at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management. Peter retired from the Braun AT board of directors in Germany and the advisory board of the business school at North Carolina A&T. He is a Board Director of Culinary Health Inc.
He currently provides 'of counsel, advisory' consultative services to CEO's and senior executives on an annual retainer basis (e.g., 2 days/month), and speaks and facilitates worksessions across a number of business management and process topics (on a per diem basis), based on his strategic and hands-on experience working for blue chip public companies as well as management consultancies.
Advertising Age on October 3, 2005 recognized Mr. Klein as one of "10 Innovators", including a 2-page article on him. THEDEAL.COM wrote a feature article on Mr. Klein on their May 11, 2007 website and repeated it in their July 8, 2007 hard copy magazine issue.
Mr. Klein published articles and has spoken on topics such as growth management, innovation, cross-functional business teams, acquisition, new product development, private label, business success factors and the sale of the Nabisco and Gillette companies. PK ASSOCIATES is located in Naples, FL.
Mr. Klein's acquisition experience includes working on over 40 transactions across strategic value, financial value, manageability and integration/transition planning... including:
- the largest global Consumer Products Industry Deal to date; with the highest sales, EBITDA,
Net Income and Cash Flow multiple paid for any public company with sales over $2bn in any Industry (P&G's acquisition of Gillette Company)
- voted 2000 Deal of the Year in U.S. (largest auction ever at that time of a U.S.-based public company: Nabisco, acquired by Phillip-Morris/Kraft Foods)
- voted 2000 Deal of the Year in Europe (Nabisco's acquisition of the UK's United Biscuit)
Media Recognition -
(1) The Tonto Files, by Lisa Gewitz-Ward; The Deal Magazine (from THEDEAL.COM), June 25 & July 8, 2007
(2) Top Ten Innovators (Advertising Age/POINT Magazine)
(3) Peter Klein: Gillette Savior Rides into Sunset, by Jack Neff. Point magazine, October 2005
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