marketing | strategy | growth | advisory

JCAS, LLC - Global Consulting

Supporting private equity and public companies, we help brands and retailers grow, transform and scale business

Why Choose Us?

Our team has more than 25 years of experience at all levels of organizations across B2B, B2C, and B2B2C – across multiple regions (North America, APAC, and Europe). Industries in which we specialize include Retail, Fintech, Apparel, and Wholesale, Media and much more.

Diverse Team

Team of practicing strategists, business operators, marketers, digital leaders, and researchers armed with years of hands-on global experience in Strategy, Marketing, Commercial Development, and Global Operations.

Considerable Experience

Experience gained from Strategy, E-commerce, Technology, Marketing, Merchandising, Sourcing, Finance, Analytics and Operations.

Focus on Deliverables

Focused on specific, actionable deliverables. We assess, learn and then advise to grow sales through the company’s lens and the customer’s experience and pain points.

Go-to-Market Specialists

Created strategies for start-ups, large firms, and global firms. Launched or fixed B2B businesses of all sizes from a variety of verticals. Supported and led B2C businesses of all sizes from a variety of verticals and geographies.

Global Experience

Our team of strategists and advisors have worked in more than 30 countries globally, across North America, Europe and Asia.

Meet Our Leadership

Our Leadership Team has over 150 years of combined experience in Digital, Strategy, Merchandising, Marketing, Operations, and Business Development. We bring subject-matter experts into every engagement we deliver.

John Bancroft

Managing Partner
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John has two decades of executive line management and senior consulting at a variety of global multichannel corporations. His expertise includes global E-Commerce, warehouse and logistics, call centers, omnichannel retail management, direct response, subscriptions and trade marketing, strategic planning, merchandise planning, marketing operations, facilitating organizational change, customer relationship management, public relations, turnarounds and global launches.

Most recently, John was Vice President Ecommerce for Newell Brands (formerly Jarden), where he was responsible to design, build and scale a large multi-brand organization from scratch and where he built a comprehensive go to market business plan for a large B2B SMB food industry brand.

Previously, as Senior Vice President, Marketing at Harry & David, John oversaw all aspects of Marketing and E-commerce, where he was directly responsible for a P&L that accounted for 85% of the company’s EBITDA. He also re-launched the food specialty Harry & David brand, led company PR, CRM, creative services, customer analytics/insights, and all aspects of the global E-commerce business. He was also a member of the Senior Leadership Team that sold the firm to 1800flowers.com.

David Pipe

Director - Strategy & Marketing
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David is a serial builder, having built brands, business plans and entire organizations from scratch four separate times. His 30+ years of work spans every element of business start-ups, with a particular focus on: marketing strategy & plan, product creation and scaling, merchandising and customer value proposition, launch and growth.

Most recently, David was VP of Marketing for IDEMIA – a Paris-based global leader in Augmented Identify. For the last few years, David has been focused on independent consulting projects in the field of Private Equity, Crypto/Blockchain, & Retail.

Previously, David was Global Chief Marketing Officer for Powa Technologies, an innovative FinTech company specializing in mobile technology that transforms & redefines the retail market. David developed Marketing Strategy & launched PowaTag in numerous countries around the world.

Although a creative and successful marketer, he hails an MBA in finance and banking from University of San Francisco. He holds three different passports and circumnavigates the world regularly as part of his duties creating, growing and scaling brands internationally.