Rosemarie Fiorilli is an accomplished senior operating executive, business advisor and executive coach with strong general management, strategy and leadership development expertise. She has over 25 years experience successfully building brands, organizations and leaders for both public and privately held companies. Rose has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal in multiple articles concerning high potential managers and senior executive presence, positioning and career development.
Rose’s significant corporate business experience includes several rigorous line financial management roles at two highly respected global consumer products companies, Nestlé Food Company and Nabisco Holdings Corp. She subsequently led both financial and strategic planning for Chanel USA, the $500 million U.S. affiliate of the global luxury goods firm, overseeing significant portfolios of premier fragrance, cosmetics and fashion brands. Her emphasis on premium brand equities continued when she was appointed Sr. Vice President & General Manager at a major operating division of F. Schumacher & Co., a leading high-end fabric, wall and floor covering, furniture and decorative accessory firm.
After gaining broad-based industry experience and skills, Rose fulfilled a long standing entrepreneurial ambition by founding a business advisory and executive coaching firm, Rubicon Advisory Group, LLC, in 2003. Her engagements include broad-based, organizationally complex leadership, acclimation and career transition coaching with a diverse group of senior corporate executives, entrepreneurs and high potential talent in the media, entertainment, technology, consumer goods, healthcare, financial services, and nonprofit sectors.
Trained first as an engineer, later as a financial executive and strategist, and ultimately immersed as a leader in exceptionally creative environments and corporate cultures, Rose is uniquely qualified to enhance the highly creative individual’s focus on and understanding of significant business concepts and issues, while enabling analytical individuals to think and act in more innovative, non-traditional ways. Her specific areas of expertise include brand positioning and pitches (for individuals, firms, services and products), strategic assessment & visioning, objective setting, execution plan & metric development, as well as ongoing leadership coaching and business mentoring. Rose’s clients include entrepreneurs, as well as senior executives at Amazon, Audible, BBC Worldwide, Booz Allen Hamilton, Calvin Klein, Columbia University, Condé Nast, Deloitte, Discovery, Edelman, Estée Lauder, EY, Frog Design, Google, Grey Global, Grubhub, Guardian Media, HBO, Hearst, HSBC, Interpublic Group, KPMG, Major League Baseball Players Association, Mars, McKinsey, MetLife, MillerKnoll, Morgan Stanley, Nasdaq, NBCUniversal, NewYork-Presbyterian, Nielsen, Northwell Health, Ogilvy, Omnicom, PepsiCo, PBS, PwC, Saks Fifth Avenue, Shopify, Simon & Schuster, SiriusXM, Sonos, Sony Music Entertainment, Starbucks, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Orchard, TikTok, 21st Century Fox, Universal Music Group, Viking Press, Warner Music Group, Yale University, YouTube, and Zillow, among many others.
Rose earned her B.S. in chemical engineering from Lehigh University and her MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Long-time Manhattanites, Rose and her husband currently divide their time between the bucolic hills of Litchfield County in Connecticut and the serene Lowcountry of South Carolina.
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