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Towson, Maryland, US

• Responsible for all aspects of finance and accounting for a trusted health and wellness partner providing safe, effective and reliable consumer products.
• Built competitive landscape reporting and leveraging data-insights to identify product portfolio strategies that expanded company’s leading market share.
• Implemented Sales, Inventory, and Operational Planning, which resulted in greater departmental collaboration, better inventory management, and improved operational efficiencies.
• Developed and implemented a Monthly Financial and Operational Review that tracked and reported on key financial and operational performance metrics and resulted in improved accountability to financial and operational.
• Developed long-range financial model that incorporated strategic growth initiatives and market landscape insights to improve decision making, develop funding strategies and determine valuation.
• Prepared quarterly investor letters and presentations to keep key stakeholders informed of the performance and strategic initiatives of the business.

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Led all aspects of finance for a lifestyle oriented, consumer products company that celebrates health, wellness, and happiness.
• Developed business strategies and provided financial leadership to launch and bring to scale a start-up business that grew to over $40MM of annualized revenue in less than 12 months.
• Built high-performing teams to support the company’s development of personal care products and the rapid roll-out of 195 mall-based kiosk shops across 35 states in 9 months.
• Created structure and financial discipline through the design and implementation of processes, procedures and systems that resulted in improved decision-making capabilities.
• Completed a $38MM capital raise to fund the execution of the company’s business strategy.

Columbus, OH, US

• Led a global team of over 80 associates throughout finance, accounting and investor relations for a $3.5B specialty apparel retailer operating over 850 retail stores in over 20 countries.
• Built highly successful integrated global teams to support expansion into international markets, ensuring a strong control environment, while minimizing cost and impact to systems, processes, and procedures.
• Led a profit improvement initiative that delivered over $50MM of sustainable savings by applying strategic sourcing solutions and methodologies within the non-merchandise workstream.
• Developed IR strategies and led management team through an Investor Day to outline long-range plan and organizational strategy to investors at the NYSE.
• Implemented new and complex accounting standards and systems/processes, including an upgrade of PeopleSoft Financials, that resulted in increased functionality, improved efficiency, and stronger controls.

Columbus, OH, US

• Led the controller’s function, including external reporting, accounting operations, and internal control over financial reporting.
• Designed and developed an accounting infrastructure to support the company’s rapid expansion into international markets, while leveraging centralized US team to minimize costs.
• Built and managed teams in Europe and Asia in support of international operations, while leveraging US teams and strong internal controls to minimize redundances.
• Led implementation SOX Section 404, which improved the design and operational effectiveness of internal controls to ensure the accuracy of financial reporting.
• Implemented new and complex accounting standards and systems, including stock-based compensation, fair value measurements, foreign currency, hedging, financing transactions and leases.

Columbus, OH, US

• After sudden departures of both CFO and SVP of Finance stepped into CFO role (while maintaining Controller responsibilities) during the height of the 2008 financial crisis.
• Affected bottom-line through quick financial evaluations to stabilize organization’s financial position by partnering with cross functional teams to preserve cash by halting capital expenditures, delivering expense.

Columbus, OH, US

• Responsible for direct-to-consumer operations, including catalog production and distribution, ecommerce, call center, and order fulfillment.
• Increased direct-to-consumer revenue by over 350%, during which time direct-to-consumer more than doubled to over 6% of total company revenue.
• Reduced costs as a percent of revenue by over 50% by bringing order fulfillment in-house, switching call center vendors and identifying lower cost shipping solutions.
• Implemented a customer relationship management (CRM) database to better understand customer segmentation and behavior.
• Developed targeted customer communication strategies, resulting in higher revenue per catalog mailed and higher spend per communication.

Columbus, OH, US

• Responsible for accounting operations, including sales audit, inventory control, accounts payable, both merchandise and non-merchandise, and real estate audit.
• Implemented automated solutions to improve daily reconciliation of cash accounts, merchandise tracking, and lease management accounting.

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