The Bearhug Network Highlights This Week's 31 Freshly Vetted Executive Profiles Out of 320+ Across Consumer Brands and Enterprise Tech, All Ready and Waiting To Take Your Call Today
The executives who move markets in outdoor, wellness, and consumer performance brands are rarely between jobs for long, which means the window to find them is shorter than most hiring timelines assume.
That is exactly the problem the Bearhug Network was built to solve. It is the first searchable database of vetted executives across consumer, outdoor, wellness, and adjacent categories, where talent surfaces on a rolling basis and hiring teams can move before a candidate is already fielding 3 other conversations.
This week's intake spans the full commercial stack. The heaviest representation falls in Marketing and Brand (7) and Product and Design (7), followed closely by Operations and Supply Chain (6) and Sales and Commercial (5). Digital and Ecommerce (3), Engineering and Technology (1), People and Culture (1), and Finance and Strategy (1) round out the week.
A few profiles that reward a closer look. A supply chain director who built fulfillment infrastructure from the warehouse floor up at a nutrition brand that grew 403% in 2 years, including a 72,000 square foot facility expansion, during the most demanding growth phase the business had ever seen. A creative director whose design vocabulary spans Rick Owens and Carter's, Calvin Klein and streetwear, athletic performance and licensed portfolio brands, the kind of range that lets her walk into any apparel category and speak the visual language that belongs there. A footwear innovation executive who built ZigTech, EasyTone, Realflex, and Liquid Factory 3D printing from the ground up at one of the largest performance footwear companies in the world, each platform cracking 9 figures in revenue.
Here is a fresh cross section of 31 of the hundreds of newly vetted executive profiles our team has added to the Bearhug Network this week, with dozens more being added daily.
BHRN-4166 📈 Sales — Pipeline looks healthy until the quarter closes wrong. Selling into that exact dysfunction across a decade at a leading revenue intelligence platform, with enterprise stops at an HR tech company, a digital adoption platform, and a developer hiring platform. Carries a law degree alongside the sales record, which changes how conversations with legal, compliance, and operations buyers go.
BHRN-4358 💻 Engineering — Carbon fiber frame construction, DW-link suspension development, and component integration at the high end of mountain bike engineering, done at a brand where the founder still shapes every product decision and technical compromise is not an option. That environment produces engineers who understand the full chain from material selection through factory validation, not just the spec sheet. Rare at the director level, this is someone who can hold both the technical depth and the cross-functional coordination a premium hardgoods brand needs when the next platform is being built from scratch.
BHRN-4378 🎯 Marketing — Most outdoor executives can credibly claim brand or product or sustainability, but rarely all three at once. This one has held CMO and Chief Brand Officer seats at an iconic outdoor footwear brand and a premier mountain resort, GM roles at a global action sports platform, and category leadership at the defining purpose-driven apparel company in the industry. Fluent in category strategy, global brand architecture, and the conservation narrative that earns premium positioning in outdoor.
BHRN-4332 🛠️ Product — Mechanical engineer turned aerospace systems integrator turned footwear innovation executive, with a track record of building product platforms that each cracked nine figures in revenue at one of the largest performance footwear companies in the world. ZigTech, EasyTone, Realflex, Liquid Factory 3D printing, each a ground-up creation that redefined what the brand could sell and at what scale. Sitting at the intersection of deep technical fluency and consumer commercial instinct, now driving glue-free construction and new trail running category creation at a purpose-driven outdoor footwear brand.
BHRN-4329 📈 Sales — Selling tactical gear and PPE to the US military requires buyer relationships no distributor can manufacture. This executive built them from the inside out, serving as an Army Medical Officer across three combat deployments before leading the government and tactical sales division at a specialty outdoor brand with three decades in the military channel. Few commercial sales leaders carry both procurement credibility and operator trust across DoD, law enforcement, and international defense agencies from a single seat.
BHRN-4343 ⚙️ Operations — When a wellness technology brand crosses into nine-figure scale and starts pushing into international retail, the supply chain that worked at half that size has to be rebuilt around a fundamentally different operational architecture. This VP holds global responsibility for planning, supply chain, and operations at exactly that inflection point, with direct experience supporting European big-box retail expansion and cross-border logistics for millions of devices shipped annually. Built for consumer brands navigating the gap between growth-stage supply chain and enterprise-level global operations.
BHRN-4369 ⚙️ Operations — Fulfillment infrastructure at a health supplement brand that grew 403% in two years does not build itself. This director rose from warehouse floor to leading that buildout end-to-end, including a 72,000 square foot facility expansion, at a DTC-first nutrition brand scaling through its most demanding growth phase. Bring this operator in when the gap between order volume and fulfillment capacity is closing faster than your 3PL contracts allow.
BHRN-4361 🛠️ Product — Rare creative director whose design vocabulary spans Rick Owens and Carter's, Calvin Klein and streetwear, athletic performance and licensed portfolio brands. That range is not a liability, it is the capability that lets her walk into any apparel category and speak the visual language that belongs there. Creative direction for brands navigating a repositioning, a category expansion, or a shift from performance-first to lifestyle-inclusive is where this background earns its return.
BHRN-4367 🎯 Marketing — Creator community strategy at a nutrition brand that grew 400% in two years is a different discipline than buying UGC from an agency seeding list, and most brand teams never learn the difference until the content stops converting. This director built that community from inside a founder-led Health and Wellness brand during its fastest growth phase, earning credibility with creators rather than just purchasing their attention. Bring this person in when a DTC brand needs its creator ecosystem to feel like a movement, not a media buy.
BHRN-4379 🛠️ Product — Sportswear merchandising at the intersection of specialty retail depth and premium brand scale is a narrow discipline, and most candidates have one side of it without the other. This merchandiser built buying instincts at a specialty running retailer and a Bay Area outdoor chain, then carried that floor-level credibility through a performance lifestyle brand and a premium outdoor company before reaching VP of Merchandising at a multi-sport manufacturer. Brings a full-spectrum lens from assortment planning to vendor strategy for brands where merchandising decisions either compound growth or quietly stall it.
BHRN-4373 🛠️ Product — Osprey went from a specialty-only pack brand to a multi-channel global business on his watch, adding DTC from scratch, landing Dick's Sporting Goods and Nordstrom, and exiting to a strategic acquirer. Before that, the President seat at a leading hydration brand, and now shaping the softgoods roadmap at one of the most recognized names in premium outdoor. The operator a PE-backed outdoor brand calls when it needs a CEO or COO who has already navigated every stage from growth through M&A exit.
BHRN-4360 ⚙️ Operations — Cross-category production experience at brands as different as a streetwear institution and a legacy American luxury house doesn't usually live in the same resume, but it does here. This director has managed production and supply chain across the full premium spectrum, from boutique fashion to high-volume performance swimwear, including the operational complexity of launching a new footwear category inside an aquatics brand navigating a major global partnership. Bring this operator in when your brand is scaling product breadth faster than your sourcing infrastructure was built to handle.
BHRN-4334 📈 Sales — Connecting product vision to commercial execution is where most footwear brands lose margin, velocity, and shelf presence all at once. At a family-owned outdoor footwear brand with flagship sandal and work boot lines distributed through outdoor specialty, sporting goods, and DTC, this merchandising leader owns the connective tissue between assortment strategy, consumer insights, and go-to-market sequencing across global channels. Brands navigating the gap between strong product and strong sell-through need this exact cross-functional scope.
BHRN-4342 🎯 Marketing — When a wellness technology brand has to invent its visual identity at the same moment it is inventing its product category, creative leadership becomes a high-stakes act of simultaneous invention. This VP built that creative system at a percussion recovery brand that grew into a global wellness platform, spanning athlete partnerships, skincare device launches, and omnichannel storytelling across DTC, Nordstrom, and broadcast in the same season. Capable of making science-forward brands feel human without softening the credibility that earned premium shelf space and stadium-level sponsorships.
BHRN-4366 📈 Sales — Running retail expansion and live events simultaneously at a performance nutrition brand sounds like two jobs because it usually is. This director has done both at once at a founder-led nutrition brand on a 400-percent two-year growth run, placing product across grocery, natural, club, and mass while building an endurance sport event program timed to the same retail calendar. Built for brands where physical retail and experiential have to scale together, not in sequence.
BHRN-4364 🎯 Marketing — Endurance sports brands earn loyalty through race-course presence and community, not impression volume, but building that machine requires someone who has actually run it. One of the architects behind a sports nutrition brand's event and experiential engine, from ultramarathon activations to half-marathon fueling stations to co-branded initiatives with destination outdoor retailers. Brings creative direction and on-the-ground activation experience built for Human Performance Brands that want to grow through participation.
BHRN-4375 🎯 Marketing — Making a single brand feel locally relevant across dozens of markets without losing the identity that made it worth exporting is the problem most consumer health teams delegate rather than solve. This executive built that capability from the inside, running international marketing across 70-plus countries at a consumer health brand, after nine years at P&G managing portfolios across pet nutrition, feminine care, and hair care, plus global marketing leadership for a major infant nutrition franchise. Built for wellness or personal care brands ready to treat international as a growth engine.
BHRN-4368 ⚙️ Operations — Operational backbone of a health and nutrition brand that grew over 400% in two years, built from the inside by someone who was there before the infrastructure existed. Procurement instincts developed at one of the country's largest foodservice distributors gave this operator a foundation most DTC supply chain leaders never get. Bring this to a growth-stage brand where ops has to scale faster than the org chart.
BHRN-4377 👥 People & Culture — Talent acquisition inside consumer brands is a different discipline than corporate TA, and most companies find that out after a bad hire cycle. This executive built and led TA functions at a DTC sustainable footwear brand, a DTC lingerie and fit company, and a multi-brand sportswear portfolio spanning outdoor, cold-weather, and trail categories. Brings a full-stack people and talent capability, from sourcing and hiring to people success, tuned specifically to the DTC and omnichannel consumer brand environment.
BHRN-4168 ⚙️ Operations — Nuclear submarine officer turned COO, with a career built on the premise that every factory floor and supplier network is a problem waiting to be defined correctly. Semiconductor capital equipment at enterprise scale, alternative energy manufacturing built from scratch, life sciences operations at a pharma conglomerate, and autonomous-sensor hardware at a venture-backed lidar company have all run through the same hands. Boards building complex hardware businesses in regulated industries get an operator who has crossed every boundary between the factory and the C-suite.
BHRN-4338 🛠️ Product — Footwear product creation rarely lives in one operator, someone who can hold design integrity, factory relationships across four continents, gross margin accountability, and seasonal merchandising under the same roof. This one built that capability across a 12-brand portfolio spanning performance running, heritage lifestyle, and kids, then took ownership of the full product engine at an outdoor footwear brand with domestic manufacturing at its core. Built for brands navigating tariff-driven sourcing disruption while protecting product quality and margin.
BHRN-4350 💰 Finance — Finance-to-product transitions are rare because they require fluency on both sides of the P&L, and most FP&A leaders never develop the product instinct to make the crossing credible. At a nine-figure performance training brand, this operator built the financial architecture supporting rapid DTC and wholesale expansion, then moved toward the product side, an unusual trajectory that signals analytical depth and commercial curiosity. Built for growth-stage consumer brands that need finance leadership with enough product and channel literacy to sit at the strategy table.
BHRN-4344 🖥️ Digital — Scaling DTC and marketplace revenue simultaneously is harder than it looks, especially when Amazon cannibalizes your owned channel if the strategy is off by even one degree. This operator built and ran both sides of that equation at a wellness technology brand, and before that held eCommerce and marketplace leadership at a specialty food company and a digital-first gifting brand. Bring them in when the question is how to grow a brand's direct channel and its marketplace presence without letting one undercut the other.
BHRN-4349 ⚙️ Operations — PE-acquisition teams rarely include someone who already understands both the investor thesis and the brand's supply chain from the inside. This operator joined a performance training brand as part of the acquiring firm's inner circle, bringing operating depth from a consumer PE firm and commercial instincts built at a fast-scaling sports beverage brand. Investor rigor, brand-side supply chain accountability, and DTC plus wholesale execution across a brand growing through nine figures.
BHRN-4380 📈 Sales — Specialty, department store, and international wholesale channels built and run across five apparel brands spanning outdoor lifestyle, athletic performance, and wellness. At a sustainable outdoor brand owned by a major sportswear conglomerate, stepped into the GM seat after building the global sales org from scratch. Sales leaders who have run the full channel stack from Spanx specialty doors to Under Armour department store accounts and then taken the GM chair know how to manage both the commercial engine and the brand.
BHRN-4351 🛠️ Product — Footwear product development across the New England cluster is unusually dense with iconic labels, and the recurring problem inside all of them is the same: translating trend signals and merchandising strategy into products that hit price, calendar, and quality targets at the same time. Across multiple heritage and performance footwear brands, that problem got solved repeatedly, from nautical lifestyle to high-growth performance training. Brings a marketing-trained commercial lens to technical PD leadership, making product decisions land with both design teams and finance committees.
BHRN-4169 🎯 Marketing — B2B SaaS marketing built on product-led growth requires a fundamentally different motion than most demand-gen playbooks deliver. This executive has led growth and marketing across a major survey platform, an EdTech marketplace, and a B2B productivity SaaS, while co-creating one of the most widely taught PLG curricula in the industry. Brought in as interim CMO when a team needs the funnel rearchitected, not just optimized.
BHRN-4330 🎯 Marketing — Technical outdoor apparel brands expanding into mountain bike face a specific challenge: product credibility does not automatically translate into cultural legitimacy with the athlete and community ecosystems that actually drive adoption. At a technical outdoor brand with deep Pacific Northwest roots, this brand VP built that bridge through a flagship MTB collection launch anchored to a marquee global event sponsorship and a roster of athletes whose audiences stretched the brand into new terrain. Credibility-first brand building, earned through community access and storytelling, not media spend.
BHRN-4362 🛠️ Product — Activewear and performance swimwear design at a brand whose athletes compete on the world stage, built on a foundation laid across years designing sportswear for one of the largest apparel conglomerates in the world. The design credential is technical, the management layer is strategic, and the combination is rare at the director level in performance apparel.
BHRN-4365 🖥️ Digital — Ecommerce as a revenue engine, not a support function, is the operating philosophy that drives results at a health and wellness brand that hit 403% two-year growth. The director running that engine owns site operations, conversion, retention, and marketplace channels end to end at a founder-led nutrition brand scaling fast out of Texas. Brands at the same inflection point get an operator who has already stress-tested every layer of DTC infrastructure under real growth pressure.
BHRN-4376 🖥️ Digital — Audio accessories, alpine sports, and a multi-brand outdoor portfolio walk into the same digital funnel, and only one kind of leader knows how to build ecommerce engines that work across all three. This one did exactly that, scaling DTC and digital experience across a premium consumer audio brand and a global outdoor conglomerate spanning some of the most recognized names in performance sport. Brought in when a brand needs to move from digital-as-channel to digital-as-growth-core, especially in the $30M-to-$300M range where that shift is hardest to execute.
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