John Deakins

Partner

John is a cross-disciplined senior business executive, strategic brand manager and revenue leader with over 40 years of experience. He has led multichannel business transformations across many industries, including manufacturing, apparel, retail and consumer products and services.

John served for 12 years as a Practice Leader at A&M, where he and his team provided sales effectiveness advisory to both healthy and underperforming clients.  John often assumed interim management roles leading client commercial teams to produce significant increases in revenues, profitability and market share.

Before A&M, John had a 30 year career in the apparel business serving as buyer, sales executive, regional, national, global sales manager, EVP Sales, President, and CEO. John holds a BA degree from Middlebury College in Middlebury VT. He and his wife Karen live in Fairfield CT near their two sons and now, two granddaughters, who keep their “gamma and gandad” busy and on their toes at all times!