Steven Prod

Senior Partner

Steven Prod is a dynamic global marketing leader with a successful career building startup, turnaround, and high growth organizations. Steven delivered strong and sustainable financial results in challenging global business environments through leadership, influence, and decisive action at companies including: Procter & Gamble, Ashland, Capital One, and Reliant Energy.

EXPERTISE

Sustainable Growth Strategies
Business Transformation and Turnarounds
Marketing Strategy

INDUSTRIES WITH DEEP EXPERIENCE

Chemicals
Retail
Telecom
Energy

17 years operating experience • 13 years consulting experience

Operator Spotlight

Ashland: Steven built and aligned 300+ person global team of Sales, Business/Product managers, Marketing, and R&D professionals around 3 high-growth Industrial Markets. Business model built around best-in-class customer intimacy, differentiated product platforms, and specialized “applications + service” domain expertise to deliver customer value.

Established new global capabilities in the areas of market segmentation, branding, customer insights, and innovation through the creation of formal training modules, embedding marketing staff in regional commercial teams, and building partnerships across key functions
Delivered $300MM+ in incremental gross profit through Product Launch teams via new global product rollouts over 5-year period
Refreshed new product pipeline for all strategic markets via organic development, technology licensing, and external partnering

Steven held Senior Operating roles for these brands:

Secret, Reliant Energy, Oil of Olay, Ashland

Consulting Spotlight

Steven led a joint client/consulting team for $3B+ global distributor of chemicals needing to generate sustainable organic growth. Solution included:

Identifying $40MM in annualized profit growth through creation of 5 individual growth platforms via segmentation, customer analytics, and operational benchmarking
Building several models, tools, and 90-day implementation roadmap to support platforms
Implementing detailed testing A/B agenda including resources, investments, expected ROI by stage. Established $8M run-rate profit growth in Year 1
Training sales, marketing, and operations teams on capabilities needed for ongoing success

A few of the brands that Steven has served in a Consulting role:

Kraton Polymers, Frito Lay, Holiday Inn, Nexeo Solutions, Graphic Packaging, Luxottica, T-Mobile, Smurfit Stone, Blockbuster Video, FleetPride, Visionworks

Community

Deacon – Upriver Bible Church, Fernwood, ID

Children’s Sunday School Teacher – Upriver Bible Church, Fernwood, ID

Volunteer – Hope’s Haven Animal Shelter, St. Maries, ID

Chairman, Board of Directors – The Mission of Yahweh, Houston, TX