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PCG Fractional Executive Consultants

Our fractional executive consultants are a strategic leadership team that provides expert guidance internally and externally throughout the organization. They counsel our CEO, clients and business partners. Their duties include studying organizational goals and strategies, identifying changes to better serve the clients, and navigating complex industry challenges. They help clients and business overcome internal barriers to change and see errors as opportunities for growth.

Community Relations Advisor

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Advisor must have served community experience. Advisor must be a leader, connector and community builder who cares deeply about leading with integrity and respect. Advisor must be passionate about developing people, integrating systems, promoting diversity, and leading through collaboration of thought. Advisor must have a wealth of knowledge in B2B, B2C, and non-profit executive who seeks to create opportunities where all communities can thrive. Advisor must have National, Regional, & Local Chamber of Commerce experience. Advisor areas of expertise include: Consulting, public speaking, strategic planning, event programming/planning, training, business development, organizational development, and community engagement.

VP of Marketing

Surya Sukumar

Surya Sukumar has a vast expertise in business. She is a high-performing marketing leader with a boundless entrepreneurial spirit. Surya's strength comes from her diverse global experiences, people, and roles enriched by her background. She gets curious and listen intently to see the whole picture, digging deep to identify and solve the root causes of problems. Surya's areas of expertise: Branding, creative direction, campaign development, go-to-market strategy and planning, agency relations, client services, experiential marketing, marketing systems and processes, public speaker, talent acquisition and organizational development.

Client Partnerships Coordinator

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Coordinator will work closely with our Founder & CEO, advisory board, clients, and PCG fractional consultants. Coordinator's areas of expertise: Presentations, dashboards, calendar scheduling, excellent written communication skills to specifically AI-powered meetings note-taking support and provide administrative projects. Coordinator is crucial when applying MS Office, MS Projects, Data, AI, CRM, Salesforce, SaaS, etc. Coordinator skills and talents will help the CEO in the decision-making processes for scheduling meetings.

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SERVICES

SCOPE & CAPABILITIES

SALES & ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
MILITARY & NON-COMM
REVENUE PROJECTIONS
BEVERAGE & ALCOHOL

E-COMMERCE & CULINARY INNOVATION
OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENT
PERFORMANCE & LEADERSHIP COACHING
BRAND MARKETING

RETAIL AND FOODSERVICE
CORPORATE DISTRIBUTION
STRATEGIC PLANNING & NEGOTIATIONS
LOGISTICS & DISTRIBUTION OPS

Representing & Advocating for Clients

PCG expands in B2B & B2C to sphere the influence by strategic planning, training and promoting high-integrity best practices using key performance indicators by our consultants who make a bottom-line difference in sales, operations, and services. Developing strategies to address the unique needs of our client base is our top priority. Our consultants help our partners achieve their objectives through collaborative business planning to leverage data insights, analytics, and performance measurement. Through combining expertise, a nose for innovation, and our extensive networks we believe we can help your business penetrate new channels and grow across multiple verticals.

Foodservice, Retail & Beverage Solutions

PCG has a track record of taking unperforming sales pipelines business and teams to transforming them into top-tier revenue generators. We fiercely work on behalf of our clients to drive sales growth and more significant market share at any point in their journey. Our consultants work tirelessly to integrate themselves with our partners, building a unified strategy to execute across retail channels.

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Strategic Planning & Negotiations

Senior-level operations executives bring a result-oriented mindset, evoke change that will drive success. We believe in turning around situations by providing data that entails a proof positive of expertise in developing business that thrive, grow and set the example for the industry. We offer our experience from front-of-house, back-of-house operations, purchasing buyers and general management.

Brand Marketing & Community Relations

Our consultants provide the best service from coast to coast, while being able to activate on a global scale. Their goal for your business? Think sustainably and drive explosive growth. By weaving ourselves into the framework of our client’s business to expand the sphere of influence by training and promoting high-integrity leaders who make a bottom-line difference in sales, marketing, communication, strategy, business development, operations and service.

SERVICES

Ann Clark Tucker, MA

“Armetha is thoughtful, collaborative, and highly driven to connect and succeed. She is the type of person you want on your team who will make you and everyone she works with better. She is enthusiastic, smart, and rarely takes no as the final answer. But she does it in a way that you begin to want what she wants. I recommend Armetha unconditionally."

Casell Randle, AR

"I have worked with Armetha over the past 8 years, and she is a dynamic and savvy businesswoman. We have worked on several marketing campaigns and community events where she has displayed her natural ability to visualize and implement a strategy to the smallest detail. Armetha is great at networking and can build strong personal and professional relationships with individuals across multiple levels in organizations, including the "C" Level. She has a strong commitment to improving herself and those around her. She is a true team player and I admire her passion and willingness to enhance the community to work and live in."

Amanda Haubrock, OH

“Armetha is a true team player who approaches projects with creativity and dedication. She strives to bring customers products and solutions that will make an impact in their business. Armetha is a trustworthy person who has great energy and passion for what she does..”

ABOUT

Leadership

LEADERSHIP

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PCG has a team of seasoned industry veterans who bring skill sets from various disciplines. PCG is successfully manage for a widely dispersed of strategic projects, scalable business models, leadership programs and operational protocols-standardized, but customizable to unique markets and service offerings. Years in the industry have led us to very basic leadership tenants:

We believe that success without integrity is a failure.
What we deliver together in mutual accomplishment is the engine that propels us all.
Build a stewardship culture where everyone is allowed to lead, troubleshoot and problem-solve together .
True success comes when you use strategy, innovation, technology, building capabilities for sustainability, diversity, equity, and inclusive work environment.

Armetha Pihlstrom is the Owner, Founder, CEO, and Chairwoman of the Board at Pihlstrom Consulting Group, LLC. She has been known to describe herself as the following: Child of God, Wife, and Mother. However, as an Entrepreneurial, she is Business Savvy, Generational Thought–Provoking Leader and Philanthropist. Her specialty lies in New Start Ups, Business Development and Major Market Expansion. She is a trusted advisor to clients and food industry sales leader. Armetha is a proud member of the Plant Based Foods Association, Women’s Foodservice Forum, and Plant Based World Expo. In addition, her proven track record in Business Management, negotiation skills, secure growth exponentially, and market share suitability.

ARMETHA PIHLSTROM

Owner, Founder & CEO

Well connected. Well equipped. At PCG we take a best-in-class approach to providing consulting services to our clients and partners. Our team members are well-traveled within the food, beverage, alcohol, restaurant industry advisor, fashion, public speaking, and brand development marketing, public relations, and health & beauty industry. Our entire team of consultants can operate as subject matter experts across a variety of disciplines.

Certifications/Chamber Memberships:

Better Business Bureau
Minority Owned Business
Certified DBE
Certified WBENC – Women’s Business Enterprise National Council
Certified Targeted Group, Economically Disadvantage, and small business
U.S. Black Chambers, Inc & MN Black Chamber.

List Specific Pertinent Codes:

541613 Marketing and Consulting
DUN & Bradstreet Number: #029759091
UNSPSC code: #80101508 Business Intelligence Consulting Services/ Management of Companies and Enterprises.
NAICS code: #541611 Business Management Consulting Services & General Management Consulting Services

World-Class Consultants

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Prestigious Former & Present Clients, Business, and Partners.

CLIENTS

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Armetha Pihlstrom is the

Owner, Founder & CEO at Pihlstrom Consulting Group, LLC. She has been known to describe herself as the following: Child of God, Wife, and Mother. However, as an Entrepreneurial, she is Business Savvy, Generational Thought–Provoking Leader and Philanthropist. Her specialty lies in New Start Ups, Business Development and Major Market Expansion. She is a trusted advisor to clients and food industry sales leader. Are you seeking a fractional executive or consulting services for business development, strategic engagement, HR, DEI Employee Resources, Retail, Foodservice, and Ingredient Sales? If not, please consider her experience if an opportunity arises as an advisory board member, public speaking or sales training your staff.

Jenny L. Verner, commercial Executive with experience primarily in the agricultural and food industries through her 37 year career with Cargill. She has operated as a business unit president, and brings with her a background in leadership across a variety of disciplines, including: commodity trading and risk management, supply chain, transportation & logistics, sales & commercial, and general operations. Presently, Jenny serves as a Director of Minnwest Corporation.

Jenny lives in Chaska, Minnesota and has three grown children.

Thomas Pihlstrom, CPA, CFO of Pihlstrom Consulting Group with over 20 years finance experience. He has worked across a wide array of industries, using his exemplary mix of analytical and client relations abilities to bridge the gap between people and the numbers.

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