Brent Souter Email & Phone Number

United States

Own & Manage a fast growing Transportation Brokerage operation out of Northwest Arkansas. We can handle customers both large and small and are dedicated to always going the extra steps required to get product moved efficiently at the best pricing possible. We fully expect to grow in many multiples over the coming 12-24 months with baselines and relationships established. if in need of help with your tranpsortation please reach out.

Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States

Own and manage small private for hire trucking with ~30 trucks. Great relations with Customer base and on time % is greater than 99%. Dry Van freight only at this time with small inter modal operation out of SW Missouri area. We operate very lean back office support staff, with one senior VP who was former Chairman Arkansas Truckers Safety Associaiotn and 20 Yr Retired Air Force Veteran and one dispatcher.

Springdale, Arkansas

• Own and operate private consulting business working with former relationships in raising financing, creating operating plans, and providing assistance for a large acquisition.• Consult and advise individuals and businesses to better improve operations and restructuring of entities if required. Specializing in developing and helping to implement turnaround plans.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• 2005 Part of group that purchased Active Transportation with annual revenues of $35M and break-even cash flow. Upon purchase took over as Executive Vice President & CFO for the company and managed Operations in 4 states. By 2008 Company was producing $3M of annual cash flow on reduced revenues of $30M.• Critical component of the purchase and management of Jack Cooper Transport in the spring of 2009. JCT had over 1,500 employees and annual revenues of $350M with rapidly declining earnings and within days of filing for bankruptcy during the collapse of the auto industry volumes.• Developed and helped guide a rapid turnaround plan which included negotiating forbearance agreements with the banks, pricing adjustments with OEM’s, agreements with the Union for the company and restructuring of Corporate Headquarters. The instituted and developed plan took JCT from a negative $2M cash flow per month to a positive $2M cash flow per month within 6 months.• Handled negotiations with major OEM’s (Ford – GM – Toyota) for all adjustments to pricing and developed a comprehensive pricing model that was touted by Toyota as the best in the industry for my segment of their business.• Created extensive detailed budgets for the company to allow company to manage the business on a terminal level basis and to identify areas of concern and synergies within the organization.• Managed all cash flow requirements working with both customers and suppliers to ensure proper communication of timing required for the business to be successful.• Negotiated Insurance needs for all areas of the business and identified areas of waste that could be eliminated.• Worked directly with Chairman and CEO on all major projects and any potential acquisitions

Joplin, Missouri Area

• Owner of Private Insulation Company doubling revenues and tripling profits over 18 month period.

Pittsburg, Kansas

• Staff Level position managing 17 accountants and clerical personnel for the largest steel door plant in the U.S. with over $90M in annual revenues.• Extensively involved in implementing new Software system and Manufacturing Capabilities that reduced employee head count from 450 to less than 200 over a 2 year period.• Analyzed all deviations to standard cost and led all meetings to ensure that standards were met and deviations resolved.• Integral part of team that took business from break-even to over 15% EBITDA over the same 2 year period.• Directly involved with corporate personnel in training of other branches throughout the U.S. on software system.

Pittsburg, Kansas

• Staff level position involved with decisions making processes throughout the company’s various departments.• Primary responsibilities include managing all accounting functions, performing the duties of Human Resource Manager, and MIS Coordinator for the company with annual sales volume $25M.• Directly responsible for tracking inventory levels and designing programs to increase inventory turnover. Full responsibility for MIS implementation leading to MRP.• Accountable for implementing policies and procedures throughout the plant, building structure, and setting up the internal accounting policy manual.

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting

Accounting