Orchid Holistic Search

🌿 Founder of a boutique, high-impact executive search firm, personally billing $500K–$1M annually while leading a team dedicated to placing purpose-driven leaders in natural products, wellness, and sustainability. Partnering with conscious companies (🌱Startup - $500M) and Private Equity firms to build leadership teams that drive long-term success.

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Blanco y Negro Sostenible

Connecting our community to their food, and to one another. One bite at a time.  Leading growth strategy for a 2.5 acre regenerative woman-owned farm, packaged goods, retail food and experiences business in the Cartago province of Costa Rica.

Vice President of Growth & Culture 

Regenerative Magic Retreats

Taking busy executives out of their comfort zones and into the wild, lush beauty of Costa Rican nature.  Curated groups will explore farming, food as medicine, nature and authenticity as sources of connection and community.  Filling our cup regenerates our own personal magic. ✨

Founder

Venteon Finance

Managed a split-desk (business development & recruitment). Specialized in accounting, finance and HR professionals for direct-hire and contract placement in the Metro Detroit - Ann Arbor areas. Pioneered new market segments of not-for-profit, education and healthcare. Implemented strategic marketing initiatives to grow and retain client base.

Sales & Recruitment Executive

Let’s find YOUR people! 💎🌺🔎

For a decade and a half, I have had the honor of stewarding conscious hiring for Natural CPG brands and manufacturers, Private Equity firms and other adjacent orgs doing good in the world. We build leadership teams that align with mission and fuel growth. At Orchid Holistic Search, we take on just a few searches at a time to go deep and get it right for our Clients. No mass emails. No bots. Just precision matchmaking for purpose-driven brands with an average time to fill of 36 days. ⚡️

🌿 Regenerative Hiring: Living on a farm in Costa Rica has reinforced what I’ve always known: growth thrives with care, diversity, and the right conditions. So do leadership teams.

✨ Beyond hiring, leaders need S P A C E to thrive. I curate wellness & personal growth retreats in Costa Rica for women in industry, giving founders and executives time to pause, realign with purpose, and lead with clarity. In 2023, I was honored with the New Hope Joy Award, nominated by retreat guests who found deep transformation & joy in these experiences.

Angela Marturano

Compass

Streamlined and optimized product management processes and workflows to improve efficiency and quality. Organized data-driven customer onboarding journey development with product, engineering, marketing, legal, and operations. Leveraged data insights to optimize the educational onboarding process and empower our customers to grow their businesses.  Utilized customer segmentation data to personalize the onboarding experience, which led to increased customer satisfaction (5/5) and technology adoption of 70%. Led the process for monthly and quarterly business reviews with the Chief Operating Officer (COO). Provided insights into team performance and progress toward business objectives. Worked closely with leaders to understand their pain points to develop new products.  Oversaw the successful launch of a new customer-facing alert system called Gainsight to enhance communication, engagement, and trust with customers. Ensured compliance with onboarding systems for 100+ customers per day.  Used strategic planning to create an onboarding roadmap for national scalability.  Provided insights into trends using dashboards for the senior leadership team.  Identified and implemented automation opportunities and worked with overseas engineers to develop specifications and improved efficiencies for real estate agents.  Hack-a-Thon ’21 winner with a Dream Big project that encouraged underserved populations to reach for home ownership using online tools.

Senior Program Manager II

Hamilton Home, Inc.

Managed a diverse internal team of three.  Responsible for developing profitable classroom auction projects earning over $200K per year for three years, assisting teachers as a trusted classroom volunteer, subbing for school front office staff, and leading a Girl Scout Troop for 11 years.  Selected as operations manager for a community-based school carnival in 2020 and the parent coordinator for SunDance performers.  Managed costumes for SunDance performers and procuring instructor gifts.

Career Pause

Amazon.com

Managed an international category expansion team of three senior program managers working on worldwide projects.  Provided monthly communication updates to Senior Vice President of Retail.  Provided quarterly and yearly employee reviews, including salary and stock recommendations.  Met weekly for one-on-one sessions including project guidance and career growth opportunities.  Managed three consultants for software work, web development, and quality assurance.  Understood team business goals and objectives which defined and organized program-level deliverables. Used a naturally inquisitive mindset, strong bias for action, strategic planning skills, quantitative analysis, and the ability to organize and deliver new initiatives across cross-functional teams.  Represented worldwide category expansion during all company-wide Holiday Planning meetings.

Manager, International Category Expansions

Implemented time-critical shopping enhancements for six international websites.  Oversaw the development of automated tools to decrease implementation time for new store launches.  Developed requirements and specifications, reviewed and integrated technical specifications, and executed worldwide project timelines.  Rapidly launched 15 new stores in three years by creating new-store protocols to decrease the time from concept through go-to-market. Increased the effectiveness of change management, communication, scaling mechanisms, and functional tools within this department.

Senior Program Manager, International Category Expansions

Launched 4 new stores: Jewelry, Toy & Baby, Outdoor Living, and Computers. Expanded 2 stores: Home & Tools and Apparel.  Internal launched the Human Resources Reviews portal.  Deep dove into each category to learn about the intricacies of each product line resulting in new database features, operational handling procedures, storage requirements, and customer return processes.

Program Manager New Categories

Ensured the success of new ventures within Operations including the distribution centers.  Represented the Operations team for the new category launches of Home, Tools, and Apparel.  Worked with software engineers and warehouse safety managers to develop protocols for receiving, storing, picking, and shipping dangerous and delicate products such as chainsaws, kitchen knives, ladders, lingerie, and baby clothing. Selected for a leadership role in the cross-functional initiatives or Target dropship and the ToysRUs integration. Collected business, product, and operational requirements then wrote functional specification documents to guide the successful launch of each project. Drove the schedule from design to release with optimized time-to-market.

Program Manager Operations

Launched the Toy category which was a huge departure from storing and shipping books.  Developed metrics and reports for the Toys management team.  Attended trade shows to increase the selection of toys for customers.  Worked with software engineers to solve the ‘colors may vary’ problem unique to online retailers.  Represented the Toys team at the distribution center during the holiday rush for immediate on-site problem-solving.  Built trusted relationships with videogame distributors ensuring the desired selection for holiday was available for our customers.

Program Manager & Retail Buyer, Toys

Used internal inventory management systems to predict weekly sales trends.  Purchased book inventory and negotiated pricing with publishers. Established and maintained positive relationships with publisher representatives as well as internal warehouse management.  Prepared and presented publisher ‘report cards’ at quarterly meetings. Established operational protocols for confidential large book releases such as Oprah’s Book Club and the Harry Potter series.

Retail Buyer, Books

Hatton Garden Agency, London

While living abroad in London worked at Amoco Oil Company, Deloitte and Touche, Technical Connection, BP Oil, and the University College of London.  Developed Access database to catalog filing system, taught secretarial staff how to create PowerPoint slide presentations, set up department library, and assisted with graduate recruitment mailing strategy.  Ensured the smooth operation of the executive offices for BP Oil, London.  Assisted visiting employees from Texas navigate the office systems of the London location.  Created a database system using Microsoft Access so that other executive assistants could enter data as needed to support the team visiting from Texas.  Managed phone calls, letters, copies, lunch reservations, report revisions, and confidential memoranda.

Junior Database Architect & Executive Assistant

Panalpina Inc.

Created documentation for international freight, negotiated with airline and steamship representatives for shipping services, prepared billing statements,  correspondence, and invoices, and tracked inventory using in-house computer system.

International Export Agent

University of Washington Medical Center Department of Neonatology

Transcribed confidential doctors notes from tape and hand written documents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).   Assisted the department administrator with various office tasks.

Medical Transcriptionist

Professional experience in the areas of Product Management, Program Management, Customer Onboarding, and Category Management, with strong focus on e-commerce. Specialized in new product line launch projects as well as International Projects. Skilled in defining business requirements collaboratively with product owners to translate them into actionable and manageable technical requirements. Demonstrated experience in working with business and technical stakeholders as well as high executive leaders to meet project deliverables on time.

Proven track record launching and growing customer-first e-commerce businesses and scaling products internationally. Adept at leading product development, opportunity analysis, implementing working-backward user experiences, solving complex customer challenges, using data to drive decisions, and building high-performing cross-functional teams.

My mission is to cultivate a culture of collaboration, trust, and accountability with my co-workers that results in remarkable outcomes for both the organization as well as the individual.

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