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Ventura, CA

* Set up, and responsible for, all business support functions including accounting/tax/audit, management & financial reporting, H/R, legal, compliance, risk management and real estate.* Assisted in securing $40 million in private capital equity,

* Raised nearly $3 billion in acquisition financing, and secured low-cost government bonds and lease financing to support capital expansion projects. Saved nearly $10 million in underwriting fees by leveraging long-term relationships with key lenders.* Developed and maintained complex financial models used for strategic planning, acquisition financing.

* Expanded securities analyst coverage from 6 to 12, institutionalized rigorous process to prepare management team for earnings disclosures, and led investor outreach efforts. * Leveraged buyside relationships to support $200 million equity capital raise to support Kettle Foods acquisition.

* Developed and began implementation of a restructuring plan to fund increased brand-building funded by margin improvement attained by securing a permanent raw material source and replacing two aging U.S. manufacturing plants with a new, more efficient one. * Upgraded management team to shift from a production-driven business model to a customer-driven.

Restructured $150 million in synthetic leases in order to maintain off-balance sheet treatment. Developed company's capital structure strategy which led to an interest rate swap that increased year-1 profits by $0.07 per share. Created new systems for tracking and documenting foreign exchange ("F/X") contracts, and put in place a net hedging strategy to.

Developed IR strategy that relied heavily on educating investors about industry risks and opportunities, while providing transparency into Mondavi's business model and strategies. Responsible for financial communications, investor visits, targeting, annual report, annual shareholder meeting and traveled extensively to represent company at investor.

Built administrative staff of 12 professionals to support company's shift from being production-driven to market-driven by designing and implementing new sales force automation tools that revamped how the company approached planning, forecasting, inventory management and performance measurement. These tools included multivariate statistical volume.

Responsible for profitability analysis, business planning, competitive analysis, capital planning, budgeting, strategic planning, performance analysis and forecasting for newly created profit center. Created strategy model to evaluate various growth, investment and pricing scenarios, and designed competitive monitoring and trade spending systems to provide.

Managed $3 million competitive information budget and staff of three responsible for volume forecasting and competitive analysis. As company converted from AC Nielsen to IRI scanner data, led project to define information needs, design three dimensional information systems and train field sales on the use of scanner data as a category management tool.

Several one-year assignments including: Marketing analysis: Provided tactical decision-support for DORITOS®, TOSTITOS®, FRITOS® and CHEE-TOS® business initiatives, and developed long-term pricing and funding strategies.Performance analysis: Wrote President's monthly performance letter to parent company PepsiCo. Tracked and forecasted expense performance.

Mba, Accounting

Bs, Systems Analysis

Activities and Societies: Gymnastics Club