Tentacle announced today that Frank Bifulco has joined the firm as a full agency partner and Managing Director, along with founders and current Managing Partners, Nick Mammola and Lou Imbriano. In this role, he will help develop and execute Tentacle’s overall growth strategy, expand its capabilities and strive to accelerate new client acquisition.
“We are thrilled to welcome Frank to our ownership group and as a partner and are confident that his leadership and deep marketing and business expertise will be a tremendous asset as we drive sustained growth for Tentacle,” said co-founders Nick Mammola and Lou Imbriano.
Tentacle is evolving from being a niche marketing-technology digital agency to a full-service agency partner in response to rapidly evolving market place demands and client needs and emerging growth opportunities. To address this, Tentacle is building a broad suite of services and product offerings ranging from brand architecture and strategy development to the creation and execution of data-driven, hyper-local digital, social and mobile marketing campaigns. Frank’s broad experience and competencies in these areas will enhance Tentacle’s capabilities and intensify its acumen.
Frank joins Tentacle having most recently been EVP and CMO for Staples. He reported directly to the CEO and served on the company’s senior leadership team. Prior to Staples, Frank served as SVP and CMO of The Home Depot, president of Hasbro Games and Hasbro North American Sales, global CMO of Timberland and SVP Marketing for Coca-Cola North America. He started his marketing and business career at Procter & Gamble in Brand Management after serving as an officer in the U.S. Army. Frank currently serves on several boards of private-equity owned companies to include York Wallcoverings, Sunless, Inc. and OwnerIQ. Previous board assignments included Yankee Candle, Things Remembered and DentalPlans.com. He also has been an adjunct professor of marketing at the Boston College Carroll School of Management.
“Having been a C-suite executive for several global companies with iconic brands over the course of my career, I’m excited to leverage my experience and marketing and business insights on behalf of a dynamic and entrepreneurial company like Tentacle,” said Frank. “I am joining partners who also have served as C-suite executives in high-profile public and private companies and have proven track records as entrepreneurs building high-growth businesses.”
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About Tentacle
Tentacle was formed in 2015 by co-founders Nick Mammola and Lou Imbriano. Since then, they have grown the firm through several organic and strategic initiatives. Today, Tentacle possesses a unique mix of entrepreneurial agility with ever-growing and expansive capabilities common to larger agencies.
Nick and Lou have been career C-suite operating executives in both private and public companies. They also have first-hand experience as founders of, advisors to and investors in start-ups and early-stage businesses. Leveraging this expertise, they established Tentacle Capital, a business within Tentacle that is focused on start-ups, early-stage and mid-market companies and that seeks to align select client opportunities with the co-founders’ experience as investors, marketers and business-builders.
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