Alan Kaufman Email & Phone Number

Alan currently is President of Applied Business Solutions and is accredited by The Institute for Independent Business. Applied Business Solutions is a firm that assists small and medium sized businesses in areas such as obtaining public and private financing, increasing sales and profits, product mapping, infrastructure development, project management, recruiting top talent, developing personal exit strategies, time and resource management issues, government regulation, acquisitions, and turnarounds

President and CEO of company that provides services to branding companies and retailers including brokerage of design, fabrication, and installation of retail branding elements. Process management consultation including customer wants and needs analysis, process mapping and installation instruction documentation. Field management services including surveying, project management, and general contracting. Key Achievements: Utilizing process tools and network of resources formed a company with the mission of maintaining high quality branding standards from design through fabrication and installation of retail environments for both manufacturers and retailers. Have successfully managed installations from Federated Department stores to Wendy’s nationally.

Reported to the chairman of the board, board of directors, and stockholders. Directed all aspects and operations of the company. Particular emphasis to market penetration and company value improvement through patents, and brand trademark registration while building an infrastructure and organization for growth.Key Achievements: Built a start-up pharmaceutical support operation into a more marketable entity. Introduced quality systems, infrastructure, product positioning and improved sales organization. Result was triple the companies initial sales and penetration of some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.

Reported to President and CEO. Directed all marketing-related disciplines and organizations for consumer and professional oral care devices/medicaments including strategic planning, research, channel management, website, brand management, commercialization, communications, public relations, and all associated advertising, sales promotion and departmental budgets.Key Achievements: Reorganized a marketing department resulting in $500,000 expense reduction and doubled improvement in new product deliveries including commercialization while sustaining brand share growth in core businesses.

Reported to the President and CEO. Led and managed, with full profit and loss responsibility, direct and indirect report relationships of over 100 employees for a multimillion-dollar strategic business unit.Key Achievements: Built a high performance team that improved the revenues in a historically flat business by developing a unique product that resulted in a new product category for the business. Within a year the business grew from $48 million to over $62 million while maintaining a pretax profit level of over 35%. Provided an important component to successful IPO road show by leading a cross-company (merged in spin-off), cross-functional team on new product innovation for fifteen separate product categories in eight weeks with quantifiable projections.