ROBERT N. LEPRE

Bob is a Managing Partner & Principal at the New England Consulting Group, and a key participant in the firm's Innovation, Lean Marketing™, Brand Architecture and Private Equity/Due Diligence practices.

Bob's career covers over 25 years of business management and management consulting for some of the largest and smallest companies who view marketing as the pathway to success.

Prior to joining New England, Bob was Executive Vice President and General Manager at Tambrands, and Executive Vice President at Marketing Corporation of America. His career also includes marketing management responsibilities at Procter & Gamble and Life Savers.

Bob's approach to managing business and his consulting counsel can best be summed up as situationally rigorous, creatively insightful and appropriately impactful and executable. His portfolio of work includes innovative projects focused on new products and organization, global branding and brand equity enhancement, private equity due diligence and management, strategic planning and breakthrough advertising.

His successful assignments at New England span industries and categories and include such companies as Bausch & Lomb, Cadbury-Schwepps, Frito-Lay, Hallmark, Capital One, Sprint and Jenny Craig.

Beyond marketing, Bob spent a number of years as a research chemist at Union Carbide developing customer products based on latex monomers/polymers and elastomers.

He holds a BS degree in chemistry from Columbia University and an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School with a major in marketing and minor in finance. Bob is an avid cook, skier and tennis player, although his cooking specialty (Peasant Italian Food) clearly surpasses his skiing and tennis skills.