• Led the divestiture of Mayday Manufacturing (drafted pitch book, led management presentations, data room & earnings calls).• Co-Lead the quarterly board meetings with our external advisory board.• Provide strategy and financial oversight for our 2 operating companies ($130M in revenue).• Lead our external tax and audit professionals.• Assisted in the creation of an early version of a family office by establishing the strategic direction of the owners’ collection of personal wealth (personal investment portfolio, 2 operating companies, private equity investment portfolio).• One of 3 members on the investment committee of a $100M+ private equity portfolio that is part of the family office• One of 4 members on the acquisition team looking for a 3rd platform company and product line add-on’s for our existing operating companies

• Responsible for leading the accounting, HR and purchasing functions as well as all areas of financial analysis and budgeting.• Co-led with the company president the relocation and purchase of a larger facility ($12M Building & $5M New Equipment).• Quickly became the right hand person of the president and led staff meetings while the president was out of the office.• Key contributor or leader on the following company initiatives: sales and marketing strategy, 5 year strategic business plan, key cost savings objectives, benchmarked best practices from other Tailwind companies and a companywide compensation study to ensure we were paying market wages for critical skills.• Achieved 50% sales growth over the last three years with expanding bottom line margins

• Responsible for the accounting group (General Accounting, Financial Analysis, AR, AP & Payroll) – department of 4.• Owned the month end close, monthly budget to actual analysis and the preparation of the annual budget.• Main contact for the external audit and tax preparation.• Key contributor or leader on the following company initiatives: strategic business plan, key cost savings objectives, 5 year capital plan• Led weekly staff meetings when the President was out of the office.• Heavily involved in the due diligence of two Tailwind acquisitions (Mayday Manufacturing & Hartzell Engine Technologies).• Led the financial integration and provided financial analysis for the two Tailwind acquisitions by traveling to the locations on a monthly basis to understand their business and processes.

• Owned the general accounting and monthly budget to actual analysis on costs.• Led an effort to reduce inventory from $20M to $15M over 24 months through appropriate mfg. lot sizing, clean-up of standards, better safety stock rationale and slow moving and obsolete inventory policy.• Reduced the month end close from 5 days to 3 days.

Senior Financial Analyst (Jul 2006 – Mar 2008)• Owned the standard costing, variance analysis and financial reporting for the global raw material spend (approx. $400M across 6 global locations).• Worked closely with the commodity hedging group each month to analyze our hedging position on corn and soybean meal.• Owned the monthly tracking of all the cost savings projects for the 6 global manufacturing plants.• Led an analysis to determine where to make certain products based excess capacity, raw material prices and tax rates.• Key resource to the R&D nutritionist to determine cost savings opportunities for ingredient substitutions.Financial Analyst (Aug 2004 – Jul 2006)• Owned the $50M operating budget for the R&D facility.• Set the annual budget and tracked budget to actual on a monthly basis.• Served on project teams with various functions to create R&D projects for future innovation.• Closed out the $20M Animal Care Capital project and properly capitalized all the assets.

Senior Financial Analyst – Controllers’ Department (Aug 2002 – Aug 2004)• Participated in the monthly earning calls from the business units. • Rolled up monthly financial data from the business units to prepare consolidated company financials.• Performed budget to actual analysis on a monthly basis.• Compiled data for the 10Q and Annual Report.• Prepared all the government reporting at the corporate level.Financial Analyst – Financial Services Center (Sep 2000 – Aug 2002)• Responsible for the general accounting and month end close of the Escanaba location (Paper Division).• Performed monthly reconciliations of the key balance sheet accounts.• Transitioned the general accounting of the other paper division locations to SAP.• Prepared tax returns for the tax department during their busy season.

• Federal, State and Local tax preparation for Individual, C-Corp, Partnership, S-Corp and Gift tax returns.• Preparation of quarterly estimates and year end individual tax planning.