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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 goals, identification of cost savings and efficiencies, and improved decision making.• 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.• Implemented Equity Incentive Plan, as well as Deferred Compensation Plan, designed to attract and retain top talent and incentivize employee performance.• Completed corporate restructuring to maximize tax and capital efficiencies, and in preparation of the company’s long-range objective of an IPO.• Completed over $50MM in debt financing and over $35MM in equity raises to fund company’s multi-state growth strategy.• Performed due diligence and completed acquisitions of dispensaries in Maryland and cultivation and processing licenses and a facility in Missouri.

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 reductions and maintaining reserves to weather the economic crisis.

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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