Bob Fiorella is a strategic problem solver and right-hand man to CEOs and business owners contemplating or dealing with a major change; whether it's restructuring a company, building a finance team, getting a loan, setting the company up for growth, successfully selling the company in five years, etc.  He began his career as an investment banker and worked on several deals including the multibillion-dollar merger of Avery and Dennison.  Over the subsequent two decades, Bob’s career centered around the media, entertainment, packaged goods, specialty retail, technology, and software development industries where he took on roles such as SVP Finance, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, and independent board member.   Some of the better-known companies Bob worked for include The Walt Disney Company, Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, Movie Gallery, and Cinedigm. Bob was the lone independent director for Movie Gallery, a 3,000+ store specialty retailer, after it was bought by a hedge fund.  He was the Chief Strategy Officer for Cinedigm, a small cap public company, and was responsible for sourcing several key strategic acquisitions that tripled its stock price.  More recently, Bob has worked as a CFO with companies primarily in the technology space.  As the first CFO of Tapingo, Bob built an internal finance group that partnered with the leadership team to improve reporting and analysis which allowed the company to raise $30mm and eventually sell to GrubHub.  Bob is currently a fractional CFO with Metal Toad, an AWS consulting partner and software development company.  He is also a fractional CFO of a $30mm packaging technology company as well as an advisor to a $100mm franchising company.  In addition, Bob is a licensed M&A advisor with Seapoint Business Advisors and was part of the team that in 2020 sold a privately held fashion brand/e-commerce platform to a private equity firm for over $100mm. Bob holds a BS in Economics from Cornell University and an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.  Bob’s “claim to fame” is appearing on Season 13 of America’s Got Talent as part of the Angel City Chorale. They made it to the Semi-Finals.

You can reach Bob at (310) – 422-6858 or email him here.

www.inflectionpoint.llc

Carol Marzouk

Human Capital Lead

Internationally recognized Carol Marzouk, the Executive Lion Tamer, focuses on the talent in the workplace.  As part of Inflection Masters, Carol elevates the executives’ intrinsic ability to lead and extract any poor behavior that destroys trust and obstructs progress and growth. She is the Bilingual Business Relationship Speaker, Coach, and CEO of Leadership ‘N’ Soul, who has also come to be known as “Therapy for Business”.   Carol has spent most of her career inspiring leaders and teams to impact the bottom line… while retaining their soul and integrity.

Working at and with large corporations for decades, what sets Carol apart is her ability to gain keen insights about the human side of doing business, combined with understanding about specific business issues that senior executives and people managers face. She provides outstanding value to leaders who want to effectively execute key initiatives effectively, and for those who seek to fully engage their people.  In her work, Carol does a phenomenal job combining best practices in hard-core business disciplines like Lean Six Sigma and process improvement, along with guiding leaders to examine their specific behaviors and long-held perceptions that might be holding back their best performance.  Carol cares deeply about the success of her clients, is extremely easy to work with and personable, and yet is insistent on the highest standards of achievement, quality, integrity, and results. Carol excels as a speaker, consultant, coach, trainer, and master facilitator. Carol received her Psychology degree from UCLA.  
She has many certifications, including her Executive Coaching Certification from the ICF accredited, Center for Executive Coaching, her Coaching Executive Leaders Certification, Leading Organizational Transition, and Organizational Development Certification from DePaul University, Life Coaching Certification from the Alan Cohen Group, DISC Certification from Trainsmart, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Predictive Index Talent Optimization Certification, and more.

You can Listen to Carol’s podcast interview on Inflection Points here, and podcasts she has done on Resolving Workplace Conflict, Business Reinvention and other topics here.

You can send her an email here, or reach her at (951) 888-5857.

www.ExecutiveLionTamer.com

Mark Jaffe

Growth Strategy Lead

Mark Jaffe is a senior consumer products and technology executive with an active consulting business that enables technology, service, and manufacturing companies to achieve growing, healthy business organizations from a foundation of sound strategic analysis. He is actively involved in developing and implementing strategic growth plans that involve new products and services,… as well as rebranding, marketing and sales initiatives for his clients.
Mark has successfully served as a catalyst for growth as a leader in these industries for over thirty years. Before consulting, his track record of corporate leadership spanned the consumer products and entertainment industries including many of the major studios, as well as successful new ventures in technology and financial services.

You can Listen to Mark’s podcast interview on Inflection Points here

You can reach Mark directly at (818) 625-3517 or email him here.

www.MarkJaffe.com