Andy Barrow

Served several clients in between the outlined experiences below for assignments anywhere from 6 -18 months for companies such as HUSO (Sound Frequency Hardware), & MONQ (Essential Oil Vapes) in operations, product design, hardware development, supply chain, overseas sourcing (China) and setting up global distribution in the UK and Germany.

• My relationship with JumpStart Foundry, a VC incubator was my primary source of clients through their 90+ portfolio companies.

• Formalized the company from the 'napkin'... raised $6.8M over 4 rounds.
• Set up international manufacturing in Taiwan and shepherded 2 brand new contact lens designs through the FDA 510k process.
• Built the team from 0-18 across operations, sales and marketing.
• Set up corporate headquarters and a 12,000sq.ft fully custom built operations/distribution center in Nashville.
• Set to launch March 2020, (unexpectedly during COVID), I steered the company through the pandemic to annualized revenues of $2.1M within just 18 months of the Global economy's slow recovery in that sector.

• Harnessed and digitized 40yrs of their 17 Trend 'applied futurism' IP, developed by the Madison Ave agency since 1974.
• My assignment was to generate digital revenue platforms/B2B products to future-proof the brand, thereby increasing the company's asset value.
• These included BROOGLE (" Brain Reserve" GOOGLE search engine of their 40yrs of IP) and TalentBank, a platform that encompassed almost 3,000 of the world's most brilliant minds that could be accessed by FPBR clients for assignment support and assistance.
• I built and led the internal design/strategy team for Fortune 100 client-facing deliverables.
• These included USPS, Bayer, Coca-Cola, J&J, Tyson, Allergan, and Citibank.

• Imagine 'Facebook for Football', I raised an initial round of $3.6M with follow-on rounds totaling $24M.
• Obtained 7 year NFLPA license and I drove a team of 4 designers and 9 opensource coders and front-end developers to build an elite Web/App LMS (Learning Management System) football training platform and dynamic social community where over 500k fans interacted with current and former NFL players.
• Players were compensated by a royalty system based on their level of interaction.
• Eventually acquired by Sports Blog Nation.

• TV production meets Construction.
• An interior design company with a companion TV show which led to a partnership with Sherwin Williams (the first of its kind) for our exclusive line of premium Green, Zero VOC paint.
• Self-funded with just $40k, annual revenues reached $2M by year 2, $5.8M by year 4.
• We served over 130 clients by replicating the brand new 'home-makeover' experience.
• The show aired for 3 seasons (36 episodes) regionally in the NW on ABC before Extreme Home makeover.
• We had 11,000 sq.ft of premium work space for 32 artisans and 7,200 sq.ft of high-end retail that housed our proprietary product lines: Eco-Art, a line of Concrete Soaker Tubs & Sinks, recycled Steel Flooring, IKEA marketplace items, soft goods, art, and lighting.

• A mid-size publisher that I helped grow to international acclaim on the heels of the fastest-selling book of all time (at the time) selling 13M copies in only 9 Months( 21M - lifetime sales).
• My role expanded from U.S. to encompass global markets managing intense growth.
• Acquired by Random House.

• Hired from Warner Bros. by Sherman Alldredge (Muzak Founder) to grow a grassroots marketing agency connecting major label artists (Capitol, BMG, Warner Bros, Universal, and SONY) to the elusive, 30-something crowd during the Napster era.
• I took it from 1 to 4 offices, (NYC, Portland, LA, and Nashville) - a staff of 48 & over 7,000 affiliated locations within 5 genre verticals.
• Annual Revenues reached $3.2M at the end of my tenure.