Brian Rosen is an executive at large. He has had career success in business development, marketing, operations, Operational Partnerships, ECOMM, and start-ups with retail, finance, private equity, textile, consumer goods, food and beverage and C level management team building.
Currently Mr. Rosen acts as an Operational Partner for many retail, multi SKU, multi location operations. Rosen is consulting counsel at Gerson Lehrman Group, based in NYC. Most notably, Rosen is President and COO at LevelVision, a private equity backed technology and content delivery system company. Rosen also has successful experience taking a start up operation from seed to profit in accelerated time line format. Rosen is also the Operational Partner for Commuter- Advertising LLC. CA is a technology and advertising company that helps mass transit capitalize on existing infrastructure to generate revenue with location based marketing messages
Rosen was President and COO for FFT Enterprises. As the "hired gun” Rosen put best practices and processes in place to achieve maximum profits and revenue. Food For Thought is a multi-unit food service provider and operator. Rosen brings an extensive background in food and beverage, retail, business development, finance, growth and leadership to this position.
Rosen was also the President of Illinois Smash LLC. Smash is the franchise concept from Consumer Capital Partners.
Rosen was an active member of the Chicago Olympic bid team called, Chicago 2016.
Prior to that, Rosen was a due diligence team member and deal flow providing member for private equity firms in Los Angeles and Denver and continues to assist many PE Firms.
Prior to that, Brian Rosen was President and CEO and co- owner of Sam’s Wines & Spirits, a Illinois-based national retailer of wines, spirits, beers and related accessories. Since joining the company full-time in 1990 and taking on the President role in 2000, he played a key role in expanding the business from one store to multiple. Additionally he launched a variety of innovative programs, building the firm’s Internet business and national reputation, and nearly doubling revenues from $36 million to $71 million. Under his watch, Sam’s also was named 2005 Retailer of the Year by Wine Enthusiast magazine, Forbes Magazine Best of the Web and Wine Spectator Retailer of the Year.
Rosen launched the companies website,
http://www.samswine.com/ and at the time of his exit, the site was generating 20M in annualized sales.
Rosen successfully wrote his own sell book, organized his sell road show and engineered and negotiated a private equity buy out in May of 2006.
Rosen is an active member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) Chicago Chapter since 2003.
Rosen has also been a guest speaker at the BES Retail summit and is a retail consultant to consumer shopped stores around the country. He is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, Young Presidents Organization Chicago Chapter, Fmr. Membership Chairman of YPO Wine Network, Event Chair of the YPO Franchise Network, Fmr. President of the YPO Wine Club and an Advisory Board member of Bottlenotes.com, Image Architecture and Wine 2.0. Rosen is a frequent contributor to CNBC, NBC, ABC and Fox Television as a retail, trend and wine expert.
Rosen has a B.A. in Business Administration from DePaul University and is a graduate of the University of Chicago Executive MBA Leadership program.
Finally, Mr. Rosen lives in suburban Chicago, is married with two young children, has finished two Ironman Triathlons and twelve marathons.