Jennifer MacKie

About Jennifer MacKie

Global commercial leader with experience driving sustainable growth, strengthening customer partnerships, and building high performing teams. My career has taken me across North America, the Middle East, and Asia, leading sales and marketing organizations through growth and transformation in dynamic markets across the packaging and industrial sectors for both private equity-backed and publicly traded companies. With a strong foundation in finance, supply chain, and operations, I bring a practical, cross-functional approach to commercial leadership. I’m known for aligning teams around clear priorities, strengthening how we go to market and execute, and bringing focus to what matters most to deliver consistent results and drive growth. Core strengths:Growth & commercial leadership · Go-to-market strategy & execution · Pricing & value creation · Building high performing teams · Cross-functional alignment · Strategic & complex negotiations · Change leadership & transformation

Experience

1. Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

   Saxco

   Jan 2024 — Present · Napa, CA, US

   Chief Commercial Officer leading Sales and New Product Development at Saxco International, a $260M North American leader in value-added packaging distribution and services for the beverage and food industries.Built a unified commercial organization - driving strategic execution, accelerating growth, and embedding best practices and standardized workflows with Power BI and Dynamics 365 (CRM) across a team of 45 sales professionals. Customers include some of the most respected names in wine, spirits, and other beverages: Caymus, Cakebread, Opus One, PlumpJack Collection, Winery Exchange, J. Lohr, Andrew Peller, Tito’s, MS Walker, and JuneShine.Saxco was previously an Atlas Holdings portfolio company, where we achieved a >2x exit at a 12x multiple in January 2025. Today, Saxco leads the Consumer Packaging Division for Novvia Group, a Kelso portfolio company.

Education

• University of Colorado Boulder

  Bachelor of Science, Finance and Marketing

  1989 — 1993

• University of Denver

  Master of Science, Finance

  1996 — 1997

Skills

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Strategic Planning
• Analysis
• Management
• Financial Modeling
• Pricing
• Financial Reporting
• Change Management
• Process Improvement
• P
• Crm
• Budgets
• Finance
• Strategy
• Forecasting
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Business Process Improvement
• Negotiation
• Mergers
• Competitive Analysis
• Contract Negotiation
• Start-Ups
• Risk Management
• Marketing
• Budgeting
• Sales