Amy Buckalter is an exceptional team leader, business strategist, and operational "game changer" who specializes in driving organizations to new levels of performance via 25+ years of world-class execution in sales, marketing, and operational leadership within global product category leaders such as Nike, Burton, K2, and others.

As a passionate performer, Amy has built an outstanding record of revenue achievement and value creation across the entire corporate spectrum. Her expertise includes interim executive assignments and strategic turnaround engagements, in addition to a series of progressive leadership roles within publicly-held, privately-owned, and private equity-funded B2C organizations. Throughout her career, she has earned consistent recognition as a growth champion, change agent, business strategist, and thought leader—and thrives on addressing the operational and cultural dynamics necessary to transform companies from market-challenger to market-leader positions.

In 2013 Amy founded Toaster Labs, an incubator for “popping up new and innovative products”. As CEO and Board Chair, Amy has been focused on the initial consumer product market entry that is launching in Q4 of 2015; an exciting revolutionary new category maker within the $610B personal care space. In May 2014, their $1M Series-A round oversubscribed by 20% in 8 weeks. The $2M Series A-1 round filled in 14 weeks in April 2015.