Leonard Berta

Background

About Leonard Berta

Since 2010, Business Development Consultant, SCORE. Start-ups to revitalization of a wide variety of businesses, consultation successes fueled by 25 plus years of General Management / P&L experience within Industrial and Consumer marketplaces. Experienced in all phases of business management for growth: Strategic Planning and Tactical Execution, achieving Financial Goals through Cost Control, Revenue and Profit, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Personnel, and Contract Negotiations. Past 25 plus years (retired from 3M in 2009): successful career in all aspects of industrial, commercial and consumer liquid filtration through multiple Distribution Channels (B2B / direct, distributors, wholesalers, dealers, retail). Achieving positions with P&L and bottom line responsibilities for: 3M, Danaher / Pall Corporation / Filterite, US Filter. Principal Occupations: General Manager, Business Manager, Director Sales and Marketing. Responsible for all markets addressed: industrial, pharmaceutical, food/beverage, oil and gas, and electronics. Other experience: National Sales and Marketing Manager, and Corporate Product / New Product Development Manager. Skilled in General Management with P&L responsibility, Long & Short range Planning, Finances, Organization Development/ Leading Interdepartmental Teams (consensus building/motivation), Sales and Marketing Management, New Business / Product Development - through launch, Contract Negotiating (aligning customer needs with corporate operating / profit objectives)-Six Sigma and Hoshin Kamri trained. Awarding winning Industrial Designer. Designed and installed the very first high profile children's participatory museum in the United States -Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Degrees: MBA Management, Fairleigh Dickinson University BS Industrial Design, Art Center College of Design BS Mathematics, St. Francis College