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Los Angeles, California, Us

Lead the operations of Curacao Financial with oversight for sales, marketing, finance, accounting, purchasing, regulatory compliance, treasury and cash flow. Evaluate, analyze, model, design and project new business ventures. Develop annual budget, monthly sales and purchase projections and goals. Manage P&L direct, I/C, overhead and payroll expenses. Manage all financial and regulatory audits and periodic regulatory filings.► Launched Fintech App: led project, coordinating with teams in tech development, marketing and credit for the launch of new app enabling small short-term 30 day-loans to help individuals meet unexpected expenses; to date 5000 loans granted with approx. 55% being repaid. ► Adding New Components to App: further developing app by adding automated collections and optimizing the funnel from application for repayment to achieve profitability.

Poway, California, Us

Evaluate, analyze, consult and recommend investment opportunities for Industrial Arts, a small privately held investment fund that invests and launches small independent ventures as well as pursue investors. Select Projects: Atlantiks Foam, The Ride Bikes, Catenary Outdoor Designs, Car Condos► Atlantiks Foam: evaluated, greenlit and privately funded in 2017-2018 a European surf board manufacturer.► The Ride Bikes: explored an e-bike venture with an established mountain bike designer.

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Led corporate planning, forecasting, budgeting and analysis of financial performance. Developed annual budget, quarterly forecasts and monthly reviews against plan ~ US$ 750M. Managed Board of Director financial presentations, reporting and analyses. Led the “Management Discussion and Analysis” portion of the SEC filings. ► Introduced streamlined reporting process, cutting production of financial reports by 50%, enabled on-demand reports as useful tool for evaluating different financial scenarios, and created an archive for reports/analyses.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Recruited for Disney in Venezuela and Argentina and promoted to Burbank, CA. Led financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and analysis for all international markets. Managed and prepared 5-year plan, annual budgets and monthly forecasts for international markets ~US$ 7B and made presentations to executive team. Actively managed the Latin American regional Consumer Products P&L ~ US$ 80M and all Latin America regional Consumer Products and Publishing contracts ~ 500 contracts. Led team of 8 professionals. ► Developed tool to easily identify gaps in product offerings by geography, benchmarking existing performance against regions; drove better performance & improved relations between Category managers and Sales. ► Performed analysis of outsourcing the operations of the Andean regions’ Consumer Products business to an external agency, resulting in $1M in cost savings per year and reduction in overhead for division to Disney.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Managed the P&L for Consumer Products in Greater China (PRC, Hong Kong & Taiwan) ~ US$ 100 M.Led 3 teams of 12 professionals in 3 sites (Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan).► Rebuilt within 3 months, a sparse poorly managed finance team in China into a fully staffed cohesive and confident team with clear sense of mission, having met all deliverables on-time and to expectations.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Actively managed the Latin American Regional Consumer Products P&L ~ US$ 80M. Managed all Regional Consumer Products and Publishing contracts ~ 500 contracts. Led 3 teams and 34 professionals. Partnered with Regional LOB Heads to identify and evaluate business growth opportunities.► Performed analysis of outsourcing the operations of the Andean regions’ Consumer Products business to an external agency, resulting in $1M in cost savings per year and reduction in overhead for division to Disney.►Led, organized and coordinated regional business reviews with the Global Executive team.► Co-led with IT the implementation of FP&A tool roll-out in the region► Implemented first Talent Assessment Plan process for the entire Latin America Finance organization

Burbank, Ca, Us

Finance Head for all lines of business in territory (Theatrical Distribution, Home Video, Consumer Products, TV and Media). Led a team of 12 professionals.►Executed the remittance of over US$ 15M in a severely restrictive and controlled FX environment and reduced receivables balance by 55%.

Supported CEO in evaluating financial, operating and strategic alternatives; led all financial strategy, budgeting, planning, forecasting, accounting, controls and investor relations. Secured $1.5M in initial round of financing.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Assured optimal profitability of alternative sales strategies. Increased customer visibility and transparency by developing credit analyses and risk profiles. Advised customers on financial strategies.

Advised Venezuela’s largest paper company, Venepal, on strategic alternatives and performed valuation and acquisition analysis for a potential purchase of Argentina’s largest tannery. Performed valuation and acquisition analyses for the potential purchase of Argentinas largest tannery.

New York, Ny, Us

Developed valuation and M&A analyses and recommended to TRW the acquisition of LucasVarity; performed portfolio, shareholder value and tax minimization analyses for retailing client, and advised major European client in acquisition of Venezuela’s largest bank.

Caracas, Ve

Developed a 5-year pricing strategy for all telecommunications services in order to optimize revenue. ►Created financial model to evaluate profitability of new businesses with AT&T 13 international services.►Rolled out and implemented Voice Mail for the first time in the Venezuelan market.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Fiance, Strategy

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Industrial Engineering