Dean Svigos

Co-Founder @ #Ferda

About

A dynamic, personable, and team-oriented thought-leader with a passion for driving growth that is seeking to learn from experience, identify opportunities to break paradigms, and teach others in the process. My professional journey began with my family's chain of grocery stores, Fresh Farms International Market. Before graduating college my best friend and I started a technology company, Retail Solutions Advisers, LLC (RSA); RSA services independent retail grocery stores with a custom-made, hyper-targeting mobile revenue enhancement strategy. In under two years, we partnered with both NCR and Coupons.com to bring CPG mobile-coupons to over 175 independent retailers. Our custom built and branded mobile applications reduced each location's annual print-marketing costs while increasing the average customer basket size by 10%. I have since separated myself from the company in search of something new to help me further grow into the person I hope to be. I earned my MBA from the University of Notre Dame and hope to find synergy between my previous experience and a future positions in order to create value in all that I do.

Country

United States

City

Greater Chicago Area

Industry

Apparel & Fashion

Skill

Payment Card Processing, Electronic Payments, Point of Sale (POS) Systems, Loyalty Programs, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Customer Service, Microsoft Word, Research, Social Media Marketing, PowerPoint, Advertising, Access, Social Media, Creative Writing, Entrepreneurship, Social Networking, Facebook, Retail, Marketing

Experience

Co-Founder

#Ferda

2021-5 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

United States

General Manager

Fresh Farms International Market

2021-6 - Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

Niles, Illinois, United States

Executive Board Member (Volunteer Work)

The Holiday Heroes

2016-8 - 2022-3 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Greater Chicago Area

At the Holiday Heroes Foundation, we take a child’s mind away from the pain, anxiety and stresses of being hospitalized, encouraging healthy social development and better recovery from illness. While volunteering within this organization I have learned a great deal about non-for-profit Growth Strategy, fundraising and market research. Working alongside an executive board that is comprised of company directors from Grubhub, Grant Thornton, Hollander and Knight, LLP, and many other amazing companies has taught me more about humility and moral fiber than I could have ever imagined; nothing has affected me more than working with the true heroes of our organization, the children.

Senior Consultant

Cognizant Business Solutions

2018-6 - 2021-6 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Chicago, Illinois

Board Member (Volunteer Work)

Youth Service Bureau of St. Joseph County

2017-10 - 2018-5 · 8 mos

St. Joseph County, Indiana

I was chosen by Notre Dame's adminitration from a pool of applicants to serve on the Youth Service Bureau of St. Joseph County's (YSB) Executive Board as a non-voting member. My responsibilities include analyzing the YSB non-profit structure, identifying strategic needs, and creating actionable goals.

Chief Marketing Officer and POS systems specialist (Professional Work)

Fresh Farms International Produce Market

2010-1 - 2017-5 · 7 yrs 5 mos

Wheeling, Il

Family owned and operated, high end retail grocery chain that services various ethnic communities within the Great Chicagoland Area. To view some of my previous Marketing-related work, please reference the "Fresh Farms" business page on Facebook (my control of Fresh Farms Marketing Operations ended in April, 2017).

Six Sigma

Villanova University

2017-1 - 2017-4 · 4 mos

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Executive Committee Member (Volunteer Work)

The Benjamin Marshall Society

2012-1 - 2015-8 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Greater Chicago Area

Strategic Development (Professional Work)

Montreal Bread Company USA

2011-3 - 2011-7 · 5 mos

Chicago, Illinois

During my Sophmore year of college, I worked with the Montreal Bread Company to analyze the tri-state area (Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana) to determine the viability of franchising the Canadian brand within the United States. Although we determined that the market conditions were not suitable for an expansion into the US market, I learned a great deal while conducting market research, negotiating franchise agreements and developing a go to market strategy.