Founder at LEOPOLDO | Brains on a Stick
West Palm Beach, Florida Area
- Current
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- Founder at LEOPOLDO | Brains on a Stick
- Past
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- SVP at TFNMI
- Marketing Partner at Flowers Direct / Field of Flowers
- Regional VP Foods/Gourmet at Carson Pirie Scott / J Bildner and Sons
- DMM Restaurants/Gourmet Foods at Federated Department Stores /Burdines
- Regional Restaurant MGR at Macy's
- Education
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- Saint Joseph's University
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Frank Leopoldo’s Summary
Dedication to excellence is rooted in operations management experience with major national, and independent, retail and food service companies. While with these companies I was given a unique opportunity to manage various existing operations and bring innovative branded concepts and products to market.
I have marketing and operations experience in restaurant, retail and personal services segments including . . .
Specialty Food Retail | Retail Floral | Gourmet Markets | Quick Service Restaurants | Specialty Grocery| Production & Retail Bakery | Professional Associations | Catering | Fine Dining, Wholesale Distribution | Casual Dining | Prepared Foods To Go
Frank Leopoldo’s Specialties:
• Provided interim senior level management services to food services operators, specialty food retailers, and perishable retailers.
• Special focus on creating brand alignment at all levels to leverage marketing reach
• Successfully improved gross margins through selected product mix promotion
• Developed and brought to market proprietary, branded products
Frank Leopoldo’s Experience
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Founder
LEOPOLDO | Brains on a Stick
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2001 — Present (9 years )
Leopoldo specializes in providing business marketing solutions to retail, food service and personal services companies. We help our clients increase profits, sales and market share by improving the brand experience they deliver to their customers. Our typical client is a retail company that is launching a new brand concept, or repositioning an existing brand for next-generation growth.
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SVP
TFNMI
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 1998 — January 2001 (3 years 1 month)
Tom Feltenstein's Neighborhood Marketing Institute
Marketing planning and consulting to the retail and restaurant industry -
Marketing Partner
Flowers Direct / Field of Flowers
(Retail industry)
January 1991 — January 1998 (7 years 1 month)
Senior Management position with direct responsibility for strategic planning, startup management, and ongoing marketing management for national long distance floral retailer with first year sales of more than $30 million and more than 460 retail store network members
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Regional VP Foods/Gourmet
Carson Pirie Scott / J Bildner and Sons
(Restaurants industry)
1985 — 1991 (6 years )
Senior regional executive position managing more than 75 retail/food service operations including specialty food grocery and food service departments in three states with annual volume of more than $35 million.
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DMM Restaurants/Gourmet Foods
Federated Department Stores /Burdines
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FD; Retail industry)
1977 — 1985 (8 years )
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Regional Restaurant MGR
Macy's
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; M; Retail industry)
1974 — 1977 (3 years )
Frank Leopoldo’s Education
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Saint Joseph's University
1966 — 1970
Additional Information
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Frank Leopoldo’s Interests:
sales, restaurant, marketing, retail, brand marketing strategy, business development planning, implementation for retail, restaurants and personal services.
Frank Leopoldo’s Groups:
AMA, Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce
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Saint Joseph's University Alumni
Frank Leopoldo’s Honors:
Gold and silver Effies, B2B Tempo awards, PastPresident AMA Gold Coast Chapter
Frank Leopoldo’s Contact Settings
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