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Global Commodity Manager IT Software & Software Services

LBR Innovations, LLC

Advisor

• Strategic Investments in Tech and AI: Achieved a 22% ROI across 12+ companies through targeted investments in emerging tech, AI, and innovation-driven start-ups.
• Increased Portfolio Value through Market Forecasting: Conducted market analysis and trend forecasting, enhancing portfolio value by 25% with data-backed insights into high-growth sectors.
• Lifecycle Analysis for Enhanced Returns: Applied lifecycle analysis and reporting to optimize start-up investments, leading to a 25% increase in ROI for technology and digital media ventures.

Investor (Tech, AI, Innovation)

• Boosted Engagement through SEO and Optimization: Increased website traffic and social media engagement by 50% by optimizing 300+ web pages and 12 profiles, leveraging SEO and audience-focused content.
• Delivered High-Quality Content with High Satisfaction: Produced 35+ premium articles and blogs with a 96% client satisfaction rate, increasing repeat business by 15%.
• Refined Content Strategy with Data-Driven Insights: Analyzed performance metrics to optimize content strategies, enhancing user engagement and conversion rates while providing actionable client recommendations.

Digital Copywriter/Ghostwriter

Undisclosed

• Optimized Global IT Vendor Management: Spearheaded vendor management initiatives, achieving a 15% cost reduction through strategic contract consolidation and partnership alignment.
• Enhanced Software Procurement Efficiency: Overhauled procurement processes, aligning strategies with organizational goals to achieve a 20% faster procurement cycle.
• Managed SaaS Budgets and Forecasting: Led SaaS expenditure management with accurate forecasting and financial analysis, reducing overall spending by 10%.

Program Manager, Technology Sourcing

Out of Ink, Inc.

• Led strategic planning initiatives that drove the development of secure, high-performance Web3 components, optimizing team performance and resource allocation.
• Directed annual budgeting, reducing expenses by 10% through strategic cost management and optimized resource allocation.
• Conducted comprehensive program analyses, leading to a 12% overall efficiency and productivity increase.
• Managed developing and deploying innovative Web3 components, ensuring project milestones were met and quality standards upheld.
• Cultivated a collaborative team environment, promoting innovative solutions and continuous improvement.
• Identified key areas for operational improvements, streamlining processes, and leveraging data-driven insights to support strategic decision-making.

Co-Founder and Vice President

tribeOS

Coordinated $60 Million in LOIs: Orchestrated the successful coordination of Letters of Intent (LOIs) totaling $60 million at a major web3 event, significantly enhancing the company's growth trajectory and market presence.
Led Cross-Functional Agile Teams: Led multiple cross-functional teams using Agile and Scrum methodologies to develop cutting-edge advertising tools. This initiative resulted in a 20% increase in user engagement and a revenue increase exceeding 10%.
Developed and Executed Project Plans: Crafted detailed plans incorporating stringent timelines and milestones, reducing project turnaround time by 20%. Achieved a 95% on-time delivery rate, ensuring consistent project success and client satisfaction.
Enhanced Stakeholder Communication: Established robust communication channels with stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment throughout project lifecycles. Conducted regular updates and progress reports to maintain stakeholder engagement and trust.
Optimized Resource Allocation: Strategically managed resources to optimize project outcomes, ensuring efficient use of budget and personnel while maintaining high quality and performance standards.

Project Manager, PMO

Investor Relations Support

General Motors

Optimized Multi-Million Dollar Contracts: Successfully optimized contracts with SAS and ETL tools, resulting in a 20% reduction in purchasing costs. Utilized advanced strategic sourcing techniques and negotiation skills to secure highly favorable terms and conditions.
Executed 60+ Cross-Functional Projects: Spearheaded the execution of over 60 cross-functional projects, consistently meeting designated timelines and delivering profitable outcomes. Implemented effective project management methodologies to ensure seamless coordination and successful delivery.
Revitalized Ongoing Contracts: Revitalized existing contracts, achieving a 10%-15% reduction in supplier costs through targeted renegotiation and strategic supplier management. Enhanced supplier diversity, expanding the company’s vendor base and improving procurement processes.
Strategic Supplier Relationship Management: Fostered strong relationships with key suppliers, ensuring long-term collaboration and favorable contract terms. Regularly reviewed supplier performance to identify opportunities for further cost savings and process improvements.
Implemented Cost Optimization Strategies: Developed and implemented cost optimization strategies that resulted in significant savings and enhanced the overall efficiency of the purchasing process. Monitored market trends to make informed purchasing decisions.

Purchasing Project Manager

Achieved 95% User Adoption Rate: Delivered SAP training to 300-1000 users per plant, achieving a 95% adoption rate through tailored and comprehensive training programs.
Enhanced System Performance by 15%: Led SAP landscape management and upgrades, increasing system performance by 15% and decreasing downtime by 20% through strategic optimizations.
Boosted Process Efficiency by 30%: Developed GM SAP procedure documents that boosted process efficiency by 30% and reduced process errors by 50%.
Led Cross-Functional Training Sessions: Organized and conducted cross-functional training sessions and workshops, ensuring thorough understanding and effective use of SAP tools across departments.
Customized Training Materials: Created and tailored training materials, including detailed manuals and guides, to meet the organization's specific needs and enhance user engagement and retention.
Monitored and Evaluated Training Effectiveness: Implemented continuous assessment and feedback mechanisms to refine training programs, ensuring high user competence and satisfaction sustained.

Project Manager: SAP Training & Facilitator

Unicorn Exchange Co

Operations and Content Manager

Ally Financial Inc.

Information Security Analyst

Utilizing data-driven strategies, I specialize in empowering entrepreneurs and solopreneurs to build wealth and achieve financial freedom.

This Isn't a Market. It's a Moral Black Hole.

We have reached the endgame of corporate capture. The system has now produced a business model where human suffering is the product, and war crimes are a market expansion strategy.

• The Product: Palantir's CEO, Alex Karp, openly states that making war crimes "constitutional" would be suitable for business, as it would require more of his company's "precision" surveillance technology. This is the explicit framing of atrocity as a market opportunity. 1


• The Casino: Platforms like Polymarket have created a global, multi-billion-dollar gambling market on active military conflicts. Users bet on the fall of cities, ceasefire timelines, and even the probability of nuclear detonation. War is no longer a tragedy; it's a tradable asset. 2


This is the logical conclusion of shareholder primacy. When profit is the only guiding principle, the system will inevitably optimize for the most profitable outcomes, even if that means monetizing mass death.

This isn't a failure of the system. This is the system working as designed. It's time to ask ourselves whether we are willing to live in a world where the stock market and the battlefield are the same.

#CorporateCapture #WarCrimes #Palantir #Polymarket #EthicalInvesting #SystemicRisk #HumanRights

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Brian Robertson, MBA

tribeos

out-of-ink-inc

Talks about #web3, #money, #wealth, #writing, and #wizardry

Doctoral Student in Business Administration | Researching Shareholder vs Stakeholder Theory | Digital Writer & Copywriter | Problem Solver | Father

Is Your Workplace a Human Zoo? The High Cost of Ignoring Our Evolutionary Needs

As leaders, we talk a lot about employee engagement, burnout, and mental health. But what if the problem is more fundamental? What if our modern workplaces are so fundamentally at odds with our evolutionary programming that they are inducing a state of mass zoo psychosis?

In the wild, animals have autonomy, purpose, and a deep connection to their environment. In a zoo, they are confined, bored, and stressed. The result is a range of pathological behaviors—pacing, apathy, self-harm.

Now consider the modern office:

Lack of Autonomy: Micromanagement, rigid hierarchies, and a lack of control over one's own work.

Lack of Purpose: Meaningless tasks, bullshit jobs, and a disconnect from the end product of one's labor.

Lack of Connection: Alienating open-plan offices, performative team-building exercises, and a culture of competition.

Is it any wonder that our workplaces are breeding grounds for anxiety, depression, and burnout?

We have created a human zoo, and our employees are the captive animals.

The 'wellness' industry is a multi-billion-dollar attempt to treat the symptoms of this problem. But yoga classes and meditation apps are no substitute for a healthy environment. They are the equivalent of giving a caged tiger a new toy to play with.

As leaders, we must ask ourselves a difficult question: are we zookeepers or ecosystem designers?

Are we content to manage the decline of our captive workforce, or are we brave enough to build a new kind of organization that is designed to meet the fundamental needs of the human animal?

The future of work is not about better cages. It is about rewilding the human spirit.

FutureOfWork #Leadership #MentalHealth #EmployeeEngagement #Burnout

How to Destroy a Healthy Company in 5 Easy Steps: The Private Equity Playbook

Private equity isn't about "building better businesses." It's about legalized asset stripping. The playbook is simple, brutal, and devastatingly effective:

1. Leveraged Buyout: Use massive debt to buy a company.

2. Load the Debt: Force the company you just bought to take on all the debt.

3. Strip the Assets: Fire workers, cut wages, sell off real estate, and slash R&D to service the debt.

4. Extract Fees: Pay yourself millions in "management" and "monitoring" fees from the company's dwindling cash reserves.

5. Exit: Sell the hollowed-out shell or let it collapse into bankruptcy. You keep the fees.

This isn't capitalism. It's a parasitic business model that has destroyed countless companies, from Toys"R" Us to Sears. It's time we stopped calling it "value creation" and started calling it what it is: economic vandalism.

#PrivateEquity #CorporateRaiders #AssetStripping #EconomicJustice #Leadership #BusinessEthics

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Billionaires are a Policy Failure, Not a Sign of Success

For too long, we have been told that the existence of billionaires is a sign of a healthy economy. We have been told that they are the job creators, the innovators, the philanthropists. We have said that their wealth will trickle down to the rest of us.

This is a lie.

The existence of billionaires is a sign of a sick economy. It is a sign of a system that is rigged to benefit the wealthy and powerful at the expense of everyone else. It is a sign of a society that has lost its moral compass.

Billionaires are not job creators; they are wage suppressors. They are not innovators; they are monopolists. They are not philanthropists; they are tax evaders.

Their wealth does not trickle down; it gushes up. It is a torrent of money that is being sucked out of our communities and into the offshore bank accounts of the super-rich.

It's time to stop celebrating billionaires and start holding them accountable. It's time to tax the rich, to break up the monopolies, and to build an economy that works for everyone, not just the few.

NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EconomicJustice #FairEconomy #The99Percent

The K-Shaped Economy Isn't a "Recovery." It's a Wealth Extraction Machine.

Stop calling it a "recovery." The K-shaped economy is the result of a deliberately designed system—a rigged game—that systematically transfers wealth from wage earners to asset owners. It's not a bug; it's a feature.

Here's how the game is played:

1. The Two-Tier System: The economy is divided into two separate playing fields. The upper tier (asset owners) gets bailouts, cheap money, and guaranteed profits. The lower tier (wage earners) gets austerity, inflation, and stagnant wages.

2. The Quantitative Easing Exploit: The Federal Reserve prints trillions of dollars, which inflates the value of assets owned by the wealthy, while the resulting consumer inflation erodes the purchasing power of everyone else. This is a direct, systemic wealth transfer.

3. The Illusion of Meritocracy: The system is designed to look like a meritocracy, but it's a pay-to-win scheme. The primary determinant of success is not hard work or innovation, but access to capital.

This isn't about individual success or failure. It's about a system that has been captured and redesigned to serve the interests of a tiny elite at the expense of the vast majority. The first step to changing the game is to understand how it's played.

#KShapedEconomy #WealthInequality #SystemicRisk #CorporateCapture #EconomicJustice #FederalReserve

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The Most Successful Con in Business History? Telling People to Pull Themselves Up By Their Bootstraps.

Did you know the phrase "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" was originally a 19th-century joke used to describe something physically impossible? 1


Somehow, this joke became the foundational myth of American capitalism. It's a brilliant and cruel piece of psychological warfare that serves one purpose: to individualize systemic failure.

• It blames the victim: If you're struggling, it's not because of stagnant wages or a rigged system; it's a personal moral failing.

• It protects the powerful: If failure is always individual, the system itself can never be questioned.

• It justifies inequality: The wealthy "earned" it, while the poor "deserve" their fate.

The ultimate hypocrisy? The people who preach this myth the loudest are the ones who received the most help. From inherited wealth to massive government subsidies, the "self-made" billionaire is a fiction. Amazon has received over $14 billion in subsidies, while Tesla has received over $3 billion. 3


It's time to retire this toxic myth. Success is never purely individual. It is the result of a complex web of social, economic, and public support. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something.

#BootstrapMyth #CorporateHypocrisy #SystemicInequality #Leadership #BusinessEthics #EconomicJustice

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