Pasquale (Pat) Carlucci has more than thirty years of broad based business experience. His accomplished career includes twenty-five years of marketing and sales management and five years as a management consultant.

Prior to joining Allen Austin, Pat was senior vice president, sales & marketing of a private company which manufactured, distributed and marketed frozen baked goods products. During this five year tenure he was accountable for all sales and marketing activities of this $165 million company employing 600 employees. Pat directed the operations ofboth the supermarket and foodservice divisions.

Previously he spent five years as managing partner of LCA, Inc., a Connecticut based management consulting firm, specializing in providing added value via client-specific sales and marketing solutions. Pat's client engagements included a broad range of assignments - organization structure and deployment, sales and marketing strategy, best practice benchmarking, new business development, trade marketing, broker management training, technology assessment and category management. Pat's major client base spanned a diverse range of corporate cultures and product portfolios- and included Hewlett Packard, Campbell Soup, Dal Tile, Pepperidge Farm, Philips Electronics, Premier Beverages, Price Waterhouse and AT&T.

At Manhattan College Pat received the Medal for Marketing, awarded to the outstanding marketing graduate. He also was inducted into the Epsilon Sigma Pi Honor Society. At Manhattan College, Pat was recruited by the General Foods Corporation in 1973. He had a distinguished and successful twenty year career in the company's Maxwell House Division where he received both the Chairman's Award for sales leadership and local promotion execution and the President's Award for sales execution. Over this twenty year career at Kraft General Foods, Pat held a series of increasing and senior levels of marketing, sales planning and sales management positions.

Pat's strong management, sales and consultive skills are combined with a strategic and practical approach in helping his clients meet their executive search needs. His consulting practice is focused on the food, foodservice and consumer packaged goods sectors, as well as related service industry sectors.

Pat resides with his family in Ridgefield, Connecticut and is active in local community and charitable organizations.