Specialty Consumer Finance Executive with Two Decades of Successful Leadership ExperienceLong-tenured senior executive of leading specialty auto finance firm with $1+ billion assets (FY2023, from $60 million at FY2000 time of hire) and 500+ employees doing business in 40+ states. Core advisor on all major business decisions including strategic initiatives, market responses, product development, etc. Key facilitator of transition from early-growth environment to mature industry leadership position, while enhancing foundational elements of affirmative corporate culture, entrepreneurship and continuous improvement, and adherence to success-generating values and principles. Actively engaged in industry community, including formerly as Vice President and board executive committee member of National Auto Finance Association.Leadership Attributes and Areas of Expertise Include▫ Broadly strategic vision, innovative thinking, creative planning & problem solving ▫ P&L accountability & cash-flow mgmt▫ Cultivation of banking & investor relations, structured finance facility negotiation & mgmt▫ Cross-functional team leadership & collaboration ▫ Superior written & verbal communication for diverse audiences, incl. public presentation, technical writing & editing, commercial & industrial scripting / copywriting▫ Champion of affirmative, meritocratic culture, instilling purpose & imbuing meaningfulness▫ Genuinely inclusive rapport, sensitivity for diverse constituents▫ Educating, coaching, mentoring, delegating, empowering▫ Diplomacy, reconciliation of conflicting interests▫ Product development, brand mgmt, campaign development & mgmt (both in-house & client-side agency work)International Experience▫ Fluent written and spoken Spanish, conversational German and Italian, basic French▫ 1994-2017: Various academic, volunteer & professional engagements in Austria, Greece, Italy, Norway, Slovenia, Wales▫ 1998: Grad school internship in Gdansk, Poland▫ 1991-1993: Volunteer missionary in Buenos Aires, Argentina▫ 1987: Lived in Vienna, Austria▫ 1981: Lived in Vienna, Austria and attended native school▫ 1976: Lived in Salzburg, Austria and attended native school▫ 1976 - Present: Travel to more than 50 countries