Bruce Browning

Proforma offers a full suite of marketing services to brands and agencies of all sizes. Services include: ☑️ Strategy, Design & Creative Development ☑️ Multi-Channel Direct Marketing Campaigns - online and offline ☑️ Corporate Printing & Direct Mail Marketing programs ☑️ Packaging - promotional and primary ☑️ Brand Merchandise Programs incl. Apparel ☑️ Tradeshows and events (LOVE the deadlines!) ☑️ E-commerce / Company Stores Corporate marketers, agencies and business professionals from various industries rely on me for creativity, production expertise, reliability and my whatever-it-takes attitude to help them; sometimes under really tight deadlines. Adjectives like "entrepreneurial, creative, fast, innovative, nimble, techy, high energy" seem to be used often to describe me.

Full service business-to-business, commercial print marketing company servicing organization's business and promotional printing and mailing needs in the tri-state area. Delivered unprecedented growth in revenue, profitability, market share, and brand performance through a combination of acquisitions, restructuring initiatives, cost controls, and implementation of leading-edge technology. Spearhead strategy, business development, operations, new product development, customer relations, negotiations, sales, and marketing. Managed 5 direct reports; 36 employees total. ✔ Growth & Profit Performance ● Grew sales over 500% during entire tenure. ● Successfully researched and entered new markets through the development of new product and service offerings. ● Created new line of business targeting YMCAs nationally. Identified niche market, developed productized service offerings. ✔ Corporate Development ● Drove acquisition strategy, identified potential acquisition targets, structured proposals, led due diligence, secured funding, negotiated terms at the C-level, and developed and executed key employee retention and integration plans. ● Grew sales $10M over 5 years through 3 successful tuck-in acquisitions ✔ Financial & Operational Improvements ● Spearheaded successful turnaround, transformation, and growth strategy. ● Directed technology upgrades, including cutting-edge technology infrastructure supporting embedded marketing techniques to personalize marketing content. ✔ Project Management ● Led multi-year, complex, data-driven market research project. Seamlessly executed highly targeted campaign with $1M+ in liability, high level of security, and stringent regulatory requirements with zero room for error. Results audited by Ernst & Young. ● Created automated print manufacturing, mailing, and distribution marketing program for nation’s leading prescription drug discount provider, enabling increased speed to market, growth and scalability.