Mike McGoohan

Mike is a dynamic global business executive who has been consistently recognized for building high performing teams, transforming businesses to drive sustainable growth, and maximizing shareholder returns across Fortune 1000 and private equity owned businesses. Mike has 20+ years of consumer business leadership experience spanning multiple industries (Food & Beverage, Health Care, Pet, Lawn & Garden, Outdoor Products, Retail, Sports) and disruptive consumer lifestyle brands including Oreo, Cadbury, Biofreeze, Solo Stove & Pennington. Across his career, Mike has a proven track record of inspiring teams to achieve bold ambitions and to deliver explosive top & bottom-line growth.

Mike is the Chief Growth Officer for Solo Brands and President of Solo Stove, their market leading outdoor lifestyle brand. Before Solo, Mike served as CMO at Central Garden & Pet, where he was responsible for their commercial growth agenda. Mike co-led Central’s successful transformation from stagnant growth to record financial performance, growing sales ~40%, EBIT ~60%, and earnings ~70% over 3 years, as well as delivering share gains. Prior to Central, Mike led the Consumer business and served as CMO for Performance Health, a private equity owned consumer healthcare company in rehab and recovery. Mike built a strong consumer team that spearheaded the total brand transformation of Biofreeze, converting it from a B2B clinical brand into the fastest growing consumer brand in the OTC category. Under his leadership, the Consumer business grew revenue, profit and enterprise value significantly, resulting in a successful sale to a strategic buyer. Prior to that, Mike led the global growth agenda for Fortune 100 global snacking leader Mondelez, resulting in record shareholder returns, accelerated organic growth and +600bps of profit margin growth over 4 years.

Over his career, Mike has been noted as a visionary leader who fearlessly challenges the status quo, envisions positive change, and empowers teams to excel. He is an agile learner with diverse leadership experience across P&L management, brand marketing, sales, eCommerce, digital, innovation, insights, analytics, strategy and M&A. Mike is also a pragmatic, innovative problem solver who balances analytical rigor with creativity & practicality to drive high impact results. Mike is an energetic leader with global experience across developed & emerging markets.