Brian Ragan Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Within the first year of operations, The Ragan Group aided in growing two client organizations from six-figure startups to seven-figure sustainable businesses that continue to grow to this day. As the primary at The Ragan Group, I would love to discuss how our businesses can grow together. The Ragan Group was founded on the idea that smaller, growing, entrepreneurial businesses deserve the same financial and consulting care that larger entities readily access. We provide financial and strategic consulting services conveniently and affordably, facilitating programs that allow these entities to grow and prepare for the future. Whether uncovering strategic initiatives, reorganizing financials, or optimizing operations, The Ragan Group will always have your back.

Flower Mound, Texas, United States

• Achieved substantial success by uncovering more than $1M in lost revenue by administering multiple regression analyses with pricing and dispatching data for an oil field services/trucking company.• Instituted a $600k increase in firm revenue in 2020 and 2021 by devising, developing, and implementing a product offering around the “Paycheck Protection Program” to conduct the accurate calculation of employees’ round 1 and round 2 forgiveness values.• Searched for and identified $32,000/monthly cost inefficiencies at client firm and performed the presentation of supporting data and recommendations to senior personnel.• Performed in-depth regression analysis and utilized a model to save a client $450,000 in Department of Health and Human Services – Provider Relief Fund repayments, proving that they had enough COVID-related expenses to cover their funding. • Played a key role by overseeing the design, development, and implementation of the organization's new consulting product offering, including sales materials, standardized client communication, logos, and engagement materials. • Carried out the development of and templatized a chart of accounts and budgeting tool, leading to internal cost savings of $10,000 per client per year. • Spearheaded the design and development of a turnkey employee compensation program/model for companies with more than 100 employees, achieving internal savings of $15,000 per client use.

Flower Mound, Tx

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Served in an integral role by co-founding this firm to develop markets in West Africa to invest in agribusiness, health and beauty distribution, and sales of artisanal, hand-crafted goods to fund a vocational training school for women in Senegal.• Established and cultivated a strong, strategic partnership with the Emerson Group, a global consumer products distribution company, to support and enhance the sale and distribution of health and beauty products in West Africa.• Presided over and directed all sales activities in Africa with revenues exceeding $30,000 per month to ensure success. • Formulated and fostered a strong and sustaining sales relationship with the largest pharmaceutical company in Nigeria.• Conducted the evaluation and assessment of firms in Dakar, Senegal for potential partnerships as part of assigned duties.• Led the establishment of government partnerships to make a $550,000 investment to construct a cashew processing plant in Senegal to support sustainable farming practices in the region.

Richardson, Texas

• Operated as executive and oversaw Finance, Accounting, HR, Customer Service, Warehousing, Logistics, and Procurement business units for the world's leading supplier of obsolete and end-of-life industrial automation components.• Tasked with serving as project manager and leading the implementation of MS Dynamics NAV Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to drive improvements in financial controls, increase supply chain and operations efficiencies, ensure greater GAAP compliance, and improve order fulfillment time.• Conducted extensive analysis into the firm's sales process to develop and implement new pricing strategy and sales commission model, leading to a 25% increase in net margin and a sales representative performance increase of 30+%. • Devised, developed, and implemented sustainable HR practices to mitigate the company's legal risk and drive significant improvements in corporate Interviewing/Hiring/Onboarding/Exiting processes, and introduce Health, Environment and Safety (HES) practices. • Orchestrated all elements of the design and implementation of a company-wide profit-sharing plan with improved alignment of core company goals and employee achievements, increasing employee retention by +27% and attracting more talented candidates. • Drove the development of an Inventory Management System, resulting in the reduction of cost of inventory on hand by $700,000+ and tracking of an inventory of over 350,000 units.• Operated in a pivotal capacity by devising, designing, prototyping, and implementing a queue-based production schedule using SQL Database Expressions, MS Excel, and a legacy Admin System, leading to a 50% decrease in the time to process orders and productivity increases across all business units. Responsible for developing and implementing short term and long term corporate strategies in order to maximize firm value.

Denton, Tx

Designed and implemented a sustainable micro-finance loan program within the poorest slum in Africa. Granted micro loans to impoverished women in the Kroo Bay Slum, in Freetown. Negotiated strategic alliances with partner organizations in Sierra Leone to provide vocational training to women living in slum communities. Administered educational relief through supplies, computers, internet access and teacher bonuses, which, at the only school within the slum community, led to 90% of students passing their national graduation exam• Led planning, board meetings and acquired partners in Freetown, Sierra Leone• Coordinated funding efforts and recruitment of volunteers; volunteer staff increased 300%• Developed partnership with firm in Monrovia, Liberia to develop a better woman’s vocational training center in Freetown for women in the Kroo Bay slum, which still provides education to women in the area today

Blue Bell, Pa

As part of Philadelphia’s leading Tax, Audit and Financial Advisory firm, led a restructuring and turnaround project for a failing client utilizing cash flow, trend, ratio and industry analysis. Project resulted in converting the firm into a permanent client. • Developed models to aid the Fesnak’s valuation team in pricing and forecasting, Black-Scholes and Binomial option-pricing models and multiple predictive and multiple regression analysis models• Planned, developed and implemented MS Dynamics CRM company wide - including coding in JavaScript. System facilitated improved lead generation and sales pipeline management. • As lead analyst discovered accounts payable discrepancies in the general ledger and reconciled differences for Fesnak’s largest client. Analysis facilitated preparation of accurate quarterly financial statements. • Prepared a revolving cash budget for BalletX, Philadelphia’s leading ballet company

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Initiated negotiations and strategic alliances with partner organizations in Sierra Leone to deliver micro-finance loans and vocational training to women living in slum communities.Delivered aid and services to partner elementary school in Sierra Leone, which led to 90% of the students passing there national graduation exams.

Philadelphia, Pa

• Modeled transactions to reveal unexplained shipping costs increases• Conducted market analysis and presented results for the over-the-counter homeopathic medication industry in the US. This contributed to the acquisition of a new international client, Similasan. • Maintained company website and database content including new product information• As part of employee team, attended National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) convention with 20 other employees to promote and market consumer product lines to Walgreens, CVS and other chain drug stores

Master Of Science (M.S.), Finance

Mba, Finance

Bba, General Business/International Business Certification