Harvest Chocolate

Harvest Chocolate, is a bean-to-bar chocolate company that handcrafts seasonal chocolate bars and Snacking Chocolate for everyday moments. We use simple, organic ingredients, source fresh cacao seasonally, using local fruits from the season to add unique flavors to our chocolate.  

We make chocolate that anyone could enjoy, regardless of allergies or dietary restrictions and support farmers locally and abroad by using only the season's best harvest—from cacao beans to local fruits.

Co-Founder and Head Dishwasher

Pros & Content Community

Community Manager

Knotch

Leading the social strategy as part of the growth team at Knotch, an early-growth customer journey intelligence software. Including strategic planning for the go-to-market, account-based marketing, paid media, email marketing, and sales development.

Growth Marketing - Social and Community

Verint

As a Customer Experience Manager with Verint, it is my responsibility to help our clients research, develop, and execute a customer experience program that will result in customer satisfaction and loyalty, insights that can be shared organization-wide, and omni channel experience strategy and measurement.

Verint as a whole has more than two decades of experience helping more than 10,000 organizations worldwide create lasting value. A global leader in customer engagement, Verint helps businesses evolve and modernize the entire customer engagement operation while protecting legacy investments.

We are built on five core values that shape the way we do business with our customers, partners, and each other: 

⇢ INTEGRITY to do what’s right
⇢ INNOVATION to create leading solutions for real-world challenges
⇢ TRANSPARENCY that fuels mutual trust and productive, collaborative working relationships
⇢ HUMILITY to view our successes as milestones in our journey and our mistakes as opportunities for improvement
⇢ PASSION for making our customers and partners successful.

Associate Account Executive

ForeSee

As a Business Development Representative, I developed and executed an account-based marketing strategy to increase sales efficiency and accelerate new business acquisition for an integrated CX intelligence platform, which helped companies prioritize CX decisions and profit from customer feedback.

⇢ Produced an accurate and high-quality sales pipeline by researching prospective customer accounts using insight tools, creating customized outreach strategies, prospecting calls through multiple channels, and conducting exploratory calls with inbound leads, leading to $3M in pipeline growth to-date.

⇢ Partnered with the marketing team to understand the campaigns and activities with the highest response rate for validation of marketing optimization efforts.

Business Development

First Federal Bank of the Midwest

Financial Sales Manager

As a Relationship Banker, I worked with individual and small business clients to complete an assessment of financial needs and consultatively sell a full range of products such as deposit accounts, loans, and credit cards to support the overall banking center sales objectives.

⇢ Secured at least $45k of new loans each month (vs. target of $25k/month), 10 customer referrals to partners (commercial loans, insurance, merchant services and wealth management), and cross-sold  50 new products per month to existing customers.

Relationship Banker

As an Account Representative, I served as a trusted advisor to small business and personal banking clients by understanding their needs and promoting the appropriate products and services. I also identified cross-selling opportunities, surpassing a personal sales goal of referring 20 new customers per month.

Account Representative

Self-Employed

As a restaurant operations consultant, I provided an operational evaluation of an emerging restaurant and streamlined the restaurant’s ordering process, reduced food cost by negotiating with suppliers, and worked with their team to create premier events to attract top-spending clients.

Freelance Restaurant Consultant

SCM Hospitality

As a Corporate Sous Chef, I provided culinary leadership, support and expertise at celebrity chef Scott Conant’s six restaurants and corporate partnerships across North America by creating dishes featured in publications under the SCM Hospitality brand. I also mentored staff at each of the restaurants on sales techniques, menu design, and marketing strategies.

Corporate Sous Chef

Torc

As a Sous Chef with Torc, I oversaw the kitchen staff while developing and maintaining relationships with vendors to acquire high-quality products. I also served as the opening management team and contributed to the restaurant’s first-year sales goal of $2MM through enforcing quality control measures, maintaining relationships with top-spending clients, and implementing daily menu changes.

Sous Chef

Quince Restaurant

As a Sous Chef with Quince Restaurant, I managed 20 kitchen staff employees in daily production, ordering, cost control and quality assurance at a 2 Michelin Star restaurant featuring California contemporary cuisine.

MattGPT™: AI + Content = Growth

Matt Cross 🍫 🤖

Knotch is solving one of the biggest challenges that B2B and B2C Marketer's face today - a "missing middle" of the audience journey which leads to guesswork, waste and lost revenue. With Knotch, Marketers can track the impact of every content asset, page and channel at every stage of the customer journey–no matter the length to reveal what content is ACTUALLY leading to conversions.

SVP, Chief Customer Officer

SVP, Revenue

Member

Crowdtap

I joined Crowdtap in April of 2013 as part of the original Sales and Business Development team, tasked with growing revenue through direct Fortune 100 client relationships, building and coaching a successful sales team and contributing to overall business and product strategy.

VP, Business Development and Sales

Thismoment, Inc

Thismoment delivers a cloud-based enterprise platform for digital experience marketing, called the Distributed Engagement Channel (DEC). In active deployment by hundreds of Fortune 500 brands, DEC is used to create, distribute and measure dynamic brand experiences across multiple sites and devices at a global scale. Deployed in more than 43 countries and 60 languages, DEC powers hundreds of brand experiences and channels spanning Facebook, YouTube, Web, tablet, mobile, and digital outdoor for many of the world's biggest brands. To learn more, please visit thismoment.com.

Account Executive

Flite

Flite is a cloud-based ad platform that enables marketers to deliver ads people love. Our platform-as-a-service approach to advertising makes it possible to deliver real-time advertising, online building tools, and comprehensive analytics—all from the Cloud.

Unlike rich media vendors, the Flite platform allows marketers to produce ads that express the power of their brand as effectively as the brand’s website. The result? Dramatically improved ad performance, brand recall, and purchase intent, with marketers receiving up to a 10x increase in ROI on their brand spend with ads developed in 1/10th the time.

Senior Director of Sales

JAGTAG Inc.

JAGTAG marketing technology tranforms any existing static marketing property into an interactive, on-demand digital media experience via the consumers mobile phone. JAGTAG was acquired by AUGME Technologies in 2011.

Director of Sales and Business Development

USRowing

Moving Boats, fast....

2008 World Champion, Gold Medalist, LM8+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PeGOoV7J80
2008 Olympic Team Member, LM4-
2007 World Championships, LM4-
2007 Pan American Games, Silver Medalist, LM4-
2006 World Championships, LM2-
2003 World Championships, Silver Medalist, LM8+
2003-2008 Multiple National Championships

USA Rowing - Athlete 

The Oxford Princeton Programme

Senior Account Executive

International Raw Materials Ltd.

Assistant Trader

Content Intelligence | Host of the Pros's & Content Podcast | Chief Customer Officer @ Knotch | 🇺🇸 Ex-National Team Rower | World Champion🥇

With almost two decades of experience in strategy, sales, and marketing for SaaS marketing companies, I am the Chief Customer Officer at Knotch, the leading content intelligence platform that helps marketers measure and optimize their content across every stage of the customer journey. 

At Knotch, I ensure that our clients get the most value out of our platform and achieve their content goals. I also host the Pros & Content Podcast, where I interview top marketing leaders and share insights on content strategy, measurement, and optimization. Additionally, I am a frequent speaker at industry events and webinars, where I showcase how content intelligence can transform marketing performance and outcomes.

Before my life in digital marketing, I was a member of the US Rowing team, starting in 2002 through to the 2008 Olympics. During that time my teammates and I won multiple National Championships and were World Champions in 2008.

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