Founder and CEO Clean Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Founder and CEO at Clean Partners
- Henry Crown Fellow at Aspen Institute
- Past
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- Strategic Advisor at Revolution LLC
- Vice President- Strategy at Revolution LLC
- Chief Strategy Officer at Patagonia
- Education
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- UCLA Anderson
- North Carolina State University
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Vishal Vasishth’s Summary
A professional with a unique blend of operational and investment experience in the branded consumer space.
Experience across diverse sectors of the consumer economy -- 1) Multi-channel retail business (retail, catalog, internet and wholesale) across three continents (North America, Europe and Asia) 2) Multi-channel media platforms 3) Alternative Transportation 4) Hospitality/Green Real Estate development 5) Healthy Prepared Food 6) Solar as Service Model
Overall strength and passion to understand the market/technology/consumer trends/patterns and based upon that develop growth/investment strategies.
Vishal Vasishth’s Specialties:
Experience in many management areas:P&L Management, Product Launch and Marketing, Team Management, Business Planning and Strategy, International Business and Sourcing, Venture Capital/Private Equity, Financial Modeling, Market Research and Analysis and Production and Manufacturing
Vishal Vasishth’s Experience
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Founder and CEO
Clean Partners
(Management Consulting industry)
August 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)
• Independent strategic consultant/investor targeted towards innovative consumer facing businesses.
• Developed investment thesis around health and wellness/green and middle class consumer market in India.
• Strategic consulting assignments include: healthy prepared food startup funded by MDV, multichannel retail brand, and healthy living branded real-estate company.
• Investment due diligence assignments includes: buyout transaction with Steelpoint Capital Partners in the retail/health and wellness space.
• Worked with a team on an investment in sustainable food space, hired a new CEO.
• Advisor to Good Magazine, Maverick Surf Ventures and Twenty Two shoes. -
Henry Crown Fellow
Aspen Institute
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 2006 — Present (2 years 5 months)
The Henry Crown Fellowship Program, established in 1997, seeks to develop our next generation of value based leaders, providing them with the tools necessary to meet the challenges of corporate and civic leadership in the 21st century.
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Strategic Advisor
Revolution LLC
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
March 2007 — January 2008 (11 months)
• Served as advisor/consultant (part time) to Revolution Living LLC, a private investment holding company started by Steve Case (AOL) with initial capitalization of $500 million and a charter to invest in consumer facing businesses in disruptive markets.
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Vice President- Strategy
Revolution LLC
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
April 2006 — March 2007 (1 year)
• Part of the executive team reporting to the CEO of Revolution Living.
• Responsibilities include deal flow, due diligence, and post investment oversight/board observer.
• Investments included controlling stakes in Flexcar (car-sharing/cleantech), Lime (digital media), Miraval (healthy living resort/green real estate) and path to control investment in Gaiam (healthy living media/products and solar installation business).
• Led the senior operating team at Flexcar for three months prior to hiring a new CEO.
• Helped the new Flexcar CEO develop a strategic plan in conjunction with the board. The board includes Lee Iacocca (former Chrysler CEO) and Joe Vittoria (former Avis CEO). This led to successful merger with Zipcar.
• Helped executive team develop strategies to move Miraval from a health resort brand to a healthy living brand. Miraval Living condominium in New York is the first project towards the brand-repositioning goal. -
Chief Strategy Officer
Patagonia
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
June 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 10 months)
Worked with the CEO to quantify, qualify and monitor company’s strategic and business development initiatives.Headed the transition plan for the new CEO that included restructuring the business. Closed a licensing deal with Merrell to enter the footwear business. Part of the executive management team responsible for running the day-to-day operations of the company.
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Strategic Consultant-CleanTech
Investors Circle (angel capital network)
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
January 2004 — July 2004 (7 months)
Developed a strategic plan in conjunction with Columbia Business School and Investors Circle to raise a $100 MM fund of fund. The sectors studied as part of this research were health & wellness and clean technologies.
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Business Director (Capilene Product)
Patagonia
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
June 2000 — June 2004 (4 years 1 month)
P&L responsibility of a $37 million dollar brand focused on selling clothing produced with a technical materials through the wholesale, retail, catalog and internet channels. Increased sales by $11 MM -- turning around the division from no-growth to fastest growing business at Patagonia.
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Innovation Manager (Technical Materials)
Patagonia
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)
May 1997 — May 2000 (3 years 1 month)
• Conceptualized and developed the Regulator fleece line, resulting in $10 million revenue in the first year that later grew to $20 million.
• Received product innovation award from Business Week and Backpacker magazine.
• Worked with CEO to design and implement cost saving strategy that saved $3.5 million.
• Established R&D partnerships under non-disclosure terms with technology companies like Cargill-Dow (Bio Polymer), Tefron (Seamless), Dupont, Wellman, Tejin, Toray, and Polartech.
• Developed supply chain partnerships in Greece, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Hong Kong/China, Thailand, UK and the US.
Vishal Vasishth’s Education
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UCLA Anderson
MBA, General Management, June 2002 — June 2004
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North Carolina State University
MS, Technology Management (Textile, Fiber and Polymer Science), 1994 — 1995
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Vishal Vasishth’s Interests:
Outdoor Sports, Organic food, LEED certified buildings, Social Networks,Open Source Development, Health/Wellness, Investment in India, Green Technologies, Digital Media
Vishal Vasishth’s Groups:
Serve as Board of Director for Coalition of Clean Air (head up the Audit Committee). Organized fundraiser event resulting in raising 50K from the event.
Vishal Vasishth’s Honors:
* Conceptualized and developed and help launch the Regulator fleece line, resulting in $10MM revenue in the first year that later grew to $20MM. Received product innovation award from Backpacker magazine.
* Received Gold award in the base layer category from Backpacker magazine.
* Received product innovation award from Business Week.
* Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute
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