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Scottsdale, Az, Us

Scottsdale, Az, Us

UnderGents designs and markets the world’s most comfortable men’s underwear (we guarantee comfort). UnderGents sells its’ products direct-to-consumer (e-commerce channels) and through specialty retailers (men’s fashion). UnderGents’ category changing products focus on men’s comfort above all else. What’s underneath is important and UnderGents is ensuring men live their lives in comfort. Traditionally, men’s underwear has had a lower approval rating than congress, with only 20% of men happy in their underwear. That is not longer the case for everyday gents that have found limitless comfort underneath in our products. UnderGents are not for everybody, but they are for gents that want to be comfortable down under. UnderGents continues to experience triple digit YOY growth and has one of the highest repurchase rates in the category.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Yandy. Yandy.com is a specialty retail brand specializing in women’s intimate apparel and fashion. Yandy has quickly become one of the most recognizable names in all things sexy and feminine. We curate over 30,000 items that include: lingerie, costumes, fashion inspired swimwear, EDM/Rave wear, as well as club wear and dresses. Yandy.com products are fun & sexy; and they are desired around the world.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

NJOY Inc. is the leading brand of electronic cigarettes with a mission to obsolete cigarettes and rid the world of smoke. Top finance & operations officer, responsible for planning and executing all finance activities of the company to foster growth in a new CPG category poised for explosive growth.> Designed and developed the organization’s annual operating plan and budget, incorporating key metrics and mechanics to drive forecast updates based on bottom-up activity drivers to manage high levels of revenue growth. Provide insight into brand development & execution.> Identified product and operational cost reductions to improve gross margin 10 percentage points and position the organization for hyper growth by implementing automated transaction processes.> Implemented month-end closing process to close within 6 days (from over 30 days) and include balance sheet reconciliations, variance analysis, and forecast updates.> Oversaw diligence for first round (minority position) PE capital infusion of $20 million as well as follow-on capital raises of an additional $95 million.> Closed the Company’s first debt instrument in the form of a $20 million ABL revolver.> Developed tools and processes to provide critical performance information to the CEO & BOD in order to make actionable recommendations on brand growth & development.

Key member of Matrixx (Zicam) leadership team with full responsibility for developing and executing financial and operating processes, which include all aspects of finance, accounting, operations, treasury, IT, and risk management.> Responsible for all aspects of finance and accounting including: Monthly reports and public company SEC filings including 10-K’s, annual reports, 10-Q’s, and 8-K’s.> Developed and presented valuation models and strategic alternatives to Board of Directors. Primary contact for investment bankers in the $83 million sale of the Company to a private equity buyer (at a 70% tender offer premium). > Led M&A initiatives and due diligence activities for acquisition of a supplier’s business assets and unit dose swab technology. Integrated and directed equipment and process redesign resulting in increased capacity and a product cost reduction of over 20%, which allowed the Zicam swab product to become the highest selling sku in the entire cough/cold category.> Overhauled the investor relations program. Built relationships with portfolio managers and analysts to secure sell side coverage and attract institutional investment resulting in institutional ownership increasing from 15% to 90% and share price appreciation of over 80% in 18 months.>Developed accurate planning and forecasting models. Created sensitivity models to view upside and downside scenarios. Engaged department heads to review operating plans and gain buy-in and accountability for functional department performance. Achieved revenue growth of over 50% and 1,200 basis point increase in operating margin.

Phoenix, Az, Us

> Developed activity-based cost models to project fleet profitability and standard cost models to measure performance. > Managed a team compiling annual and monthly forecasts and variance analysis as well as monthly market and contract P&L’s. Provide solutions for financial and operations variances. > Modeled and presented air service proposals to the Department of Transportation, local and state governments, and communities. Grew Essential Air Service revenue over 25% in two years. Served as community relations liaison, which involved providing interviews to local news media and interacting with community leaders to address air service, pricing, schedules, and maintaining goodwill.

> Led a cross functional transition team responsible for migrating clients to a shared service environment.> Stabilized processing (GL, A/R, A/P, & Billing) after transition.

Phoenix, Az, Us

> Developed the client finance module of an IT and operations project for $1 billion+ business> Managed credit & AR portfolio of over $100 million> Assimilated 38 acquired branch locations and implemented consistent sales order cycle processes.

Bachelor Of Science, Finance

Bs Finance, Accounting And Finance