Fractional VP of Strategy for Fresh Produce & Food Operations
Senior strategic judgment, Lean process redesign, and the data systems to back it up, without the full-time hire.
Most produce and food operators I meet are running eight-figure businesses on spreadsheets, email threads, and ERP extracts. Finance has one version of the truth, operations has another, and decisions stall because nobody fully trusts the numbers.
I work the seam between the two. I speak the CFO's language, I understand how the operation actually runs, and I build the systems that put both on the same page. Most advisors pick one of those three. My work is being fluent in all of them.
Fractional VP of Strategy
Senior strategic leadership that bridges your P&L and your packing line, a few days a month instead of a full-time salary.
AI Positioning & Strategy
An honest read on where AI belongs in your business, what it really costs, and how to connect it to your data safely.
Data-as-a-Service
One governed source of truth, extracted from your ERP and kept current automatically, so your reports and apps never disagree.
Technology Strategy & Selection
Vendor-neutral evaluation of ERP, field data, QC, and analytics platforms, with me on your side of the table.
Custom Business Web Applications
Purpose-built internal tools that replace the spreadsheet-and-email workflows your team has outgrown.
Prefer to see rather than read? Click through the interactive app demos, real apps I have built, rebuilt with invented data.
“If there were a leaderboard for produce industry know-how, Nick should be on it. His extensive knowledge about the ins and outs of produce operations up and down the supply chain, large and small, is seemingly endless. Nick combines his impressive domain knowledge with deep software technology experience, making him an extraordinary partner and asset to our software product team in both new feature design and ongoing platform development.”
Genevieve Wang, Chief Product Officer
- One customer, three names, and a different number in every report. I built one governed source of truth, and the arguments stopped.
- Two versions of the same report, two different totals, and a meeting spent arguing about who was right. Now there is one number, and everyone trusts it.
- Handing AI open access to company data is asking for trouble. I built a governed layer so it answers real questions safely, without ever seeing what it should not.
1Talk
Most engagements start as an advisory conversation about what is not working. No pitch deck, no pressure.
2Assess
I dig into the numbers, the workflows, and the systems, then tell you plainly what I find and what I would do about it.
3Build
I advise, and when it is time to build, I build. Strategy, process, and the data systems that make it stick, from one person.