Tina Kanter strategy, marketing and operations experience.  Raised in the IKEA culture, Tina has subsequently held management and executive positions in the fashion and home decor industries.  Additionally, Tina's significant international experience augments her expertise in retail, sales management, operations, marketing/PR, human resources and logistics/supply chain management.

Tina has launched several brands and brand extensions.  She successfully brought Flying Tiger Copenhagen (a quirky, design driven home decor retailer) to North America and integrated a retail division of Petals Decorative Accents (a classic catalogue and e-commerce firm) building the division from the ground up and devising and implementing the marketing strategy.  In addition, she has worked with category leaders such as IKEA, Staples, Gap and Williams Sonoma as well as several smaller development stage fashion companies.  Tina is an entrepreneur in the true sense of the word, and has been actively involved in launching 12 diverse businesses, within a variety of industries.

As President of Beech Tree Consulting, Tina has provided guidance and consulting services to numerous companies ranging from incubator stage to mature multi-billion dollar firms by sharing her experience and developing a customized recipe of strategic planning, go-to-market stratgegy execution, brand management, real estate, store openings/closings, human resources, people development, sales management and methods for ensuring corporate profitability.  Tina has lived in several countries and speaks Danish, German, and English fluently.

Tina graduated from Davidson College in 1998 with a BA majoring in German and Sociology and attained her MBA from Babson College's Olin School of Business in 2010, magna cum Laude- where she won the Graduate Student Leadership Award and was member of the executive committee for the Entrepreneurship Forum.

She leverages her ability to fuse her strategic and analytical skills with creativity and resourcefulness. Tina provides existing and new clients with fresh, innovative, yet functional ideas to help them achieve their goals of profitability, market share and brand equity and takes wild ideas and makes them a reality.