SIMONE BURKE
I turn around underperforming consumer businesses, brands, and products.
SIMONE BURKE
I turn around underperforming consumer businesses, brands, and products.
Who I Am
I've spent 15 years inside the operating room of consumer businesses as a brand, marketing, and product strategy leader and portfolio GM.
I've built, scaled, and revitalized consumer brands and product portfolios in Fortune 500 and high-growth, venture-backed environments, including successfully turning around $5M-$350M category icons and challengers across lifecycle stages.
My specialty is taking brands and products that are stuck - declining, mispositioned, or underperforming their potential - and unlocking their next phase of growth.
I hold an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and built my pre-MBA career in entertainment, including co-founding and scaling Above Average, a breakthrough digital brand and content platform, to the top 1% of its peer set and industry award recognition within a year. This early background in entertainment-grade storytelling, audience-building, and cultural fluency complement my CGP brand management-trained strategic and analytical rigor and are core to how I identify and frame the positioning and narratives that brands and their products need to win.
My track record as a brand leader and portfolio GM includes driving four distinct brands to industry-leading success, earning a "Grand Slam" of Beverage Dynamics’ Growth Brand Awards (recognizing the US beverage alcohol industry’s top-performing brands) by winning across all four categories: Rising Star, Fast Track, Established Growth, and Comeback Brand.
MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, Class of 2017
BA from Amherst College, Class of 2008