Recent Projects
- Completed customer satisfaction analysis for a retail customer. Delivered an extensive multi step plan to increase ratings on various social media platforms and win back customers that defected due to low satisfaction.
- Built a complete website for customer needing an online presence for an art studio.
- Analyzed several competitors for a client in the consumer grilling industry. Deliverable was an SEO analysis report detailing how to achieve higher ranking on keywords that were not being targeted in the market space.
- Assisted with the development of several consumer goods prototypes for a consumer grilling accessory manufacturer.
- Facilitated the sale of a Domain Rating 47 website including negotiation, due diligence and website transfer.
Experience
Al Contarino is a professional entrepreneur with over 25 years of senior management experience growing and overseeing his own businesses. He currently President and owner of AFC Business Ventures. AFC is a self run company focused on business consulting, product development, web design/SEO and strategic marketing.
Early in his career, Al was the President a family electronics company called L-com, Incorporated. At L-com, Al was instrumental in defining the business strategy to grow the e-commerce/direct marketer of electronic cable assemblies and components. The company grew from $5M to $30M in sales during his tenure. He is extremely proud that L-com was “consistently profitable” for over 12 years with EBIT percentages exceeding 20%.
www.L-com.com
In 2006 Al retired from L-com after completing a successful sale of the company to the private equity group – The Riverside Company. At that time he remained on the Board of Directors and helped with high level direction, strategy and oversight for the organization.
In 2010, Al built another company based around one of his consumer product inventions. KettlePizza is an American manufacturer of pizza grilling products and accessories. The company has sold its pizza oven kits to people in over 70 countries and in 2019 Al was honored to be invited to The White House to represent the State of Massachusetts at the 2019 Made in USA Product Showcase.
www.KettlePizza.com
Al also has a passion for teaching, coaching and advising. In the past he has taught business management classes at Boston College, The University of Massachusetts – Lowell, Northeastern University and Northshore Community College. Specific classes of interest are Operations Management, Supply Chain Management and Small Business management. He also was a volunteer instructor at Citizen Schools where he taught children about inventing and how things worked.
Al has an undergraduate degree from University of Massachusetts – Lowell and a Masters in Business Administration from Bentley College. He is also a proven inventor with numerous patents issued under his name.
Specialties: SEO, e-commerce, strategic marketing, supply chain management, internet technologies, industrial engineering, entrepreneurship, product development, teaching, inventing
Al’s LinkedIn Profile can be viewed
