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Executive Leadership · Operating Improvement · Venture Development

Strategy That Gets Implemented.

For owners ready to build a stronger business. TigerWise connects executive judgment with practical execution—clarifying priorities, strengthening teams and building systems that can support the next stage.

Talk with Blake Explore the Capabilities

Leadership at the Right LevelFractional, interim, and advisory engagements.

Systems That Support the TeamOperations, commercial infrastructure, and practical AI.

A Business Built for What’s NextGrowth, acquisition integration, and enterprise value.

One Business. Connected Priorities.

Bring the Strategy and the Operating Work Together.

TigerWise works across six connected areas, with Blake’s executive leadership at the center. Each engagement is scoped around the business’s priorities, people, and capacity.

01

Executive Leadership & Strategy

Establish direction. Make decisions. Keep the business moving.

Scope and Operating Experience

Fractional and interim CEO/COO leadership, strategic planning, and executive support for owners navigating growth, a turnaround, or a founder-to-enterprise transition.

Growth and turnaround priorities; executive alignment.
Decision rights, accountability, and operating governance.
Board, investor, and specialist coordination.

Operating experience: CORKCICLE, Panama Jack, HD Supply, and Pickleball Bella.

02

Operations & Organizational Performance

Build an organization that executes beyond the owner.

Scope and Operating Experience

Turn recurring friction into clear processes, responsibilities, and a management rhythm. Connect departments so priorities survive the handoff from planning to execution.

Process improvement, SOPs, and workflow mapping.
Department structure, hiring alignment, and management development.
Cross-functional execution, project oversight, and operating cadence.

Operating experience: global teams, distribution operations, and owner-led organizational improvement.

03

Supply Chain & Product Operations

Connect the product plan to reliable delivery.

Scope and Operating Experience

Align sourcing, manufacturing, inventory, and fulfillment with the commercial plan. Address cost, quality, and continuity across the product lifecycle.

Global sourcing, vendor negotiations, and manufacturing coordination.
Factory quality control; freight, duties, and disruption management.
Inventory planning, warehouse operations, and fulfillment.
Product development, launch readiness, and commercialization.

Operating experience: CORKCICLE sourcing and factory quality programs; Panama Jack product operations; ongoing Pickleball Bella supplier coordination.

04

Growth & Commercial Systems

Make growth more coordinated and repeatable.

Scope and Operating Experience

Align brand positioning, customer segments, merchandising, and the systems used to sell. Build channel discipline around fit, capacity, and the economics of serving the customer.

Positioning, segmentation, and go-to-market planning.
DTC, wholesale, retail, marketplace, and international channels.
Partnerships, CRM, sales infrastructure, and retailer support.
Merchandising and coordinated marketing execution.

Operating experience: consumer-brand and distribution channels. Practical work: Pickleball Bella commerce documentation and active HubSpot sales workflows.

05

Technology, AI & Business Intelligence

Give people clearer information and better ways to work.

Scope and Operating Experience

Start with the workflow and the business decision. Assess systems, define meaningful metrics, and use AI where it can reduce repeat work while preserving human ownership.

Business-system assessment and selection; ERP, CRM, accounting, and commerce coordination.
Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace organization; integration requirements.
KPI definitions, dashboards, and executive reporting.
AI adoption, reusable skills and instructions, and controlled automation.
Searchable knowledge, documentation, exports, and data-resilience planning.

Practical work: published commerce knowledge systems and source-backed operating reviews. Dashboard and automation deployment is scoped and verified for each engagement.

06

Acquisition & Enterprise Value

Prepare the business for its next ownership decision.

Scope and Operating Experience

Evaluate opportunities through an operating lens. Establish the visibility, management discipline, and integration priorities owners need before and after a transaction.

Opportunity evaluation and operational diligence.
Post-acquisition integration and capital-allocation priorities.
P&L and cash-flow visibility with finance specialists.
Reporting, governance, and transaction preparation.
Trademark and IP portfolio administration with qualified counsel.

Operating experience: CORKCICLE ownership transition and Pickleball Bella acquisition-led transformation. Venture work: TwinCat opportunity evaluation.

When the Business Needs Its Next Operating Chapter

The Opportunity Is Real.
The Business Needs to Catch Up.

Growth can expose what effort alone can no longer solve. The owner becomes the point of escalation. Departments work to different priorities. Reporting arrives too late—or answers the wrong question.

TigerWise helps owners and leadership teams establish what matters, assign responsibility, and put the operating structure in place to move forward.

Growth Outpaces Systems

Connect people, processes, inventory, and customer channels before complexity starts making decisions for you.

The Founder Carries Too Much

Create clearer roles, develop managers, and move recurring decisions to the right level.

The Next Move Needs Confidence

Improve performance visibility, resolve operating friction, and prepare for an acquisition, integration, or ownership transition.

Practical Technology. Executive Purpose.

Better Information.
Less Repeat Work.
Clearer Ownership.

Technology and AI belong in the operating model. TigerWise connects the tools to the workflow, the decision, and the person accountable for the result.

Knowledge That Survives the Handoff

Build a governed reference for brand, product, and operating knowledge. Define source authority, reusable instructions, version history, and the unresolved questions that need an owner.

Reporting That Informs a Decision

Define KPIs before building dashboards. Align commerce, channel, inventory, and accounting measures; surface discrepancies instead of hiding them in a polished chart.

AI with an Operating Owner

Use AI for research, documentation, analysis, and repeatable workflows. Scope access, require review for consequential actions, and verify the output before the process is expanded.

ShopifyHubSpotMicrosoft 365Google WorkspaceQuickBooksKlaviyoAmazon

Experience includes operating across these environments and coordinating specialist support. Analytics work is defined around the decision and available data, including GA4 and Looker Studio where appropriate. A platform is selected because it supports the business.

Experience with Operating Responsibility

Built From Work Inside the Business.

Blake brings the perspective of an executive, owner, and board member. These examples reflect operating experience and practical work—not promises of the same result for every business.

CORKCICLE · COO & Executive Chairman

Build the Infrastructure Behind a Growing Brand.

Global operations, sourcing, factory quality programs, fulfillment, customization, and business intelligence. Blake worked with investors and the board through the company’s ownership transition.

Relevant when: a successful product business needs scalable infrastructure and stronger operating visibility.

What the Experience Demonstrates

Connecting product development, sourcing, and commercial demand.
Building teams and systems across an international operation.
Maintaining delivery through supply-chain disruption.
Preparing leadership and operating information for a transaction.

Panama Jack · President

Reconnect Brand Direction with the Operating Model.

Cross-functional leadership across licensing, finance, marketing, sales, and manufacturing. Work included product and category development, organizational changes, and infrastructure for ERP, the general ledger, and reporting.

Relevant when: an established brand needs commercial priorities and internal systems to move together.

What the Experience Demonstrates

Coordinating licensing and multiple sales channels.
Aligning the product plan with operational capacity.
Connecting financial visibility with management decisions.

Pickleball Bella · Owner & Executive Chairman

Professionalize a Founder-Led Business.

Ownership-led work on governance, channel strategy, supplier coordination, and execution discipline. Practical artifacts include a published commerce knowledge system and source-backed operating reviews; HubSpot supports active wholesale outreach.

Relevant when: the business needs repeatable processes while preserving its founder’s product and customer knowledge.

Completed Work and Current Development

Published master and product commerce knowledge documentation.
Dated executive operating reviews and decision records.
Active CRM sales access and documented supplier coordination.
Dashboard inputs, accounting reconciliation, and broader integrations remain work in progress where completion is unverified.

Trademark & Intellectual Property Management

Protect the Value Behind the Brand.

Keep ownership records, trademark portfolios, domains, approved assets, and licensing documentation organized. Connect brand decisions to deadlines, counsel, and the operating teams that use the assets.

Portfolio inventory, ownership documentation, and status tracking.
Trademark application and renewal coordination with counsel.

Controlled brand-asset records, usage guidance, and domain continuity.
IP documentation for licensing, diligence, and ownership transitions.

TigerWise provides business management and coordination. Legal clearance, registrability opinions, prosecution, enforcement, and legal drafting are handled by qualified counsel.

Operating Experience, Ventures & Relationships

Executive, Owner & Board Member

President

Owner & Executive Chairman

TigerWise Brand Venture

Investment Experience

Advisory Exploration

Venture Development

Relationships reflect the roles shown. Company marks identify the businesses; they do not imply endorsement or a current service partnership.

About Blake Thomas

Leadership Grounded in the Operating Work.

Blake founded TigerWise to help owners connect strategic direction with the structure and execution needed to make it happen.

His career includes serving as CORKCICLE’s Chief Operating Officer and Executive Chairman, President of Panama Jack, and Owner and Executive Chairman of Pickleball Bella. Earlier leadership roles at HD Supply and Randall Mechanical developed his grounding in sales, people, inventory, logistics, budgets, and customer delivery.

That experience shapes TigerWise’s approach: understand the business, establish the priorities, and work with the people responsible for carrying them through.

Blake holds a Bachelor of Science from Clemson University and mentors early-stage entrepreneurs through Clemson’s Launchpad.

TigerWise — President & Founder

Executive advisory, operating improvement, and venture development across consumer products, food and beverage, retail, real estate, manufacturing, and logistics.

Pickleball Bella — Owner & Executive Chairman

Acquisition-led organizational development, governance, product and channel priorities, supplier oversight, and capital planning.

CORKCICLE — COO & Executive Chairman

Global operations, supply chain, team development, commercial infrastructure, and investor coordination.

Panama Jack — President

Brand revitalization, licensing, and cross-functional operating leadership.

HD Supply — General Manager

Full P&L responsibility, hiring and training, sales and marketing, inventory, logistics, and customer service.

Randall Mechanical — Vice President

Business development, client and vendor partnerships, budgeting, and operating efficiency.

How We Work

Clarity First.
Then Accountable Execution.

The scope follows the business need. TigerWise can contribute through a focused project, ongoing executive advisory, fractional leadership, or interim leadership.

01 / Assess

Understand the Business

Review the goals, people, workflows, performance information, and constraints. Separate what is known from what needs verification.

02 / Prioritize

Decide What Matters

Agree on the few priorities that justify attention, capital, and effort. Establish owners and measures of progress.

03 / Implement

Build a Defined Scope

Work alongside the team on processes, systems, and projects. Document decisions, dependencies, and evidence of completion.

04 / Lead

Keep the Work Moving

Review progress, resolve blockers, develop managers, and adjust as the business changes. Leave the team with usable knowledge and ownership.

Blake leads the executive and operating work. Qualified finance, accounting, legal, tax, specialized HR, cybersecurity, and engineering professionals are engaged where needed. Their scope, availability, and responsibility are agreed for the engagement.

Start with the Business Situation

What Needs to Move Forward?

Describe the challenge, the change ahead, and what you need from an executive partner. Blake will review whether the work fits TigerWise’s experience and available capacity.

blake@tigerwise.com (407) 205-8552Orlando, Florida

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