Endeavor Management has named Ed Lahue as practice lead for marketing and brand strategy.

Lahue is a 30-year veteran in strategic marketing & branding, innovation and consulting whose industry experience includes consumer products, healthcare and various industries. Lahue's expertise identifies business growth opportunities through customer insights, develops marketing strategies and new product development for companies and organizations. As practice lead at Endeavor Management, Lahue will lead client engagement by identifying opportunities within organizations, building and marketing trusted brands and improving innovation.

"I was attracted to Endeavor because of their mission to partner with businesses who desire to strategically transform and grow existing companies and organizations," said Lahue. "I am excited to work with a group of professionals who are focused on growth for their clients."

"Businesses continue to be challenged in identifying growth opportunities and senior executives have been increasingly asking us for strategic expertise to transform their brand, marketing and innovation into viable plans for growth," said Bill Nash, president and chief executive officer of Endeavor Management. "We believe that Ed brings the experience in both brand marketing and innovation to support our clients' need for growth."

For the past five years, Lahue was employed in Evansville, Ind. as the marketing and communications director for St. Mary's Health System, a member of the Ascension Health network.

Prior to his healthcare experience, Lahue was an independent consultant working with both business to consumer and business to business clients for such nationally and regionally recognized brands as ConAgra Foods, Slim-Fast Foods, Vectren and Red Spot Paint & Coatings. Lahue's career began in consumer products marketing for such brands as Gerber, Enfamil, Purex and ReaLemon.

Lahue will be based in Evansville, Ind. and work out of the Clayton, Mo. office.

Endeavor Management is an international strategic advisory firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. Endeavor collaboratively works with their clients to accelerate growth by creating a deep understanding of customers and engaging clients' employees in executing strategic transformation. Endeavor has a 40-year history working with clients that span the globe and are leaders in their industry. For more information, visit www.endeavormgmt.com or call (281) 759-3600.

Endeavor Management
Ana Mena, (281) 759-3600
amena@endeavormgmt.com