Emily Burton Weinman

Roles available for:
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Fractional
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Consulting
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Contract
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Interim
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Assets
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Country experience:
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United States of America
Northern America
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Languages:
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English
EnglishLevel: Native
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English
Achievements

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Expertise
Enterprise Transformation Operating Model Design Cross-Functional Execution Strategic Execution Global Operations Service Delivery / Professional Services Organizational Scaling Execution Governance AI-Enabled Workflows Process Automation Partner Ecosystems Executive Leadership Alignment Change Management Risk Mitigation SaaS / Digital Commerce API-Driven Models -
Services
Executive operator for inflection points. I turn strategy into execution at scale, redesign operating models, and align teams, systems, and AI-enabled workflows to accelerate growth, improve performance, and build for sustained results.
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Employees overseen
200 employees
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Budget overseen
$ 12,000,000
Roles available for:
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Fractional
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Consulting
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Contract
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Interim
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Assets
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Country experience:
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United States of America
Northern America
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Languages:
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English
EnglishLevel: Native
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English
Achievements
Why hire me in a fractional role
Experience
- Interim Chief Operating Officer
- Senior Vice President, Strategic Enablement
- Vice President, Partner Enablement
- Senior Director, Global Delivery
Strengths in this role: Executive integrator in complex, high-risk environments. Stabilizing operations during leadership transition, aligning cross-functional executives, and establishing governance, prioritization, and decision frameworks. Mitigating operational and talent risk while maintaining continuity, performance, and system stability under pressure.
Industry Group: High Tech
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Years of experience: 25 years
Company name: Digital River, Inc.
Company size: 1,000 employees
Role in this company: Hand-selected by the CEO to step into an unplanned executive transition, leading enterprise-wide operations across Technology, Engineering, and Delivery. Served as executive integrator, stabilizing operating rhythm, aligning leadership, and maintaining continuity, governance, and performance through organizational change and contraction.
Strengths in this role: Enterprise transformation and execution leadership. Aligning strategy to delivery, redesigning operating models, and embedding governance and AI-enabled workflows. Driving executive alignment, improving decision velocity, and increasing operational efficiency, productivity, and performance at scale.
Industry Group: High Tech
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Years of experience: 25 years
Company name: Digital River, Inc
Company size: 1,000 employees
Role in this company: Led enterprise-wide transformation across Sales Operations, Delivery, and executive leadership. Translated strategy into execution by aligning priorities, redesigning operating models, and establishing governance and execution discipline to improve performance, decision-making, and scalability.
Strengths in this role: Operating model transformation and global delivery leadership. Scaling partner ecosystems, redesigning onboarding and embedding AI-enabled automation within a partner-first delivery model. Building distributed teams and operating discipline to improve time-to-value, increase capacity and flexibility, and drive efficiency without proportional cost growth.
Industry Group: High Tech
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Years of experience: 25 years
Company name: Digital River, Inc
Company size: 1,000 employees
Role in this company: Led global onboarding and partner-enabled delivery across Project Management, Solution Architecture, Development, and QA. Drove transformation to improve time-to-value, scale implementations, and operationalize a partner-first, API-driven delivery model.
Strengths in this role: Global delivery execution and scalability. Establishing operating discipline, standardizing delivery frameworks, and driving predictable outcomes across distributed teams. Advancing partner-first models and embedding automation to improve time-to-value, consistency, and scalable execution.
Industry Group: High Tech
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Years of experience: 25 years
Company name: Digital River, Inc
Company size: 1,000 employees
Role in this company: Led global SaaS delivery teams responsible for complex enterprise implementations. Drove alignment, consistency, and operational rigor across distributed teams to improve scalability, execution quality, and predictable delivery performance.
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Degrees & accreditations
Executive MBA, Howard University, School of Business
Juris Doctor (JD), University of Minnesota, School of Law
Bachelor of Arts, Hamline University
Certificate - Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy – MIT Sloan School of Management and CSAIL
Certificate - Women in Leadership: Becoming an Agent of Change – MIT Professional Education
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Success story
I led a global onboarding transformation, redesigning the operating model to integrate AI-enabled automation and partner delivery. We cut implementation time in half, accelerated revenue recognition, and significantly increased capacity without adding headcount.