Chris Baker Email & Phone Number

Jupiter, FL, US

Encore AMC Partners combines new levels of creativity and forward thinking from a team of executive leaders who can advise, manage and consult on strategic initiatives to either organically grow, acquire, sell, integrate and transform small-to-mid market companies with annualized revenues up to $250 million.

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

rinehimerbaker, is a leading Intacct reseller, implementer and outsourcing partner, Intacct is the leading cloud-based accounting and financial management technology. Specifically rinehimerbaker, uses Intacct and it's partners to solve the issues growing middle market companies face today, including:- Outgrowing Quickbooks- Cost and headaches of on-premise.

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

• Advised and worked with business leaders from companies ranging in size from one million in revenues to global, multi-billion dollars.
• Operated as contract CFO for clients to develop business ‘story’ including summary financial results, projections and written narrative of business description and strategy to facilitate obtaining working capital lines.
• Advised US division of Premier Farnell, a London-based publicly traded company. Provided buy and sell-side advisory services which resulted in the purchase of an add-on acquisition for wire and cable division and.
• Engaged by company founder and owner to support startup of company providing PVD bright-finish automotive wheel solutions to OEM and aftermarket customers. Developed operations and financial infrastructure.
• Successfully purchased, operated, restructured and sold $12M medical supply company in 1 year. Sold company to $4.5B publicly traded medical supply company. Acquiring company implemented key operational processes I.
• Purchase of majority interest in live-shot television studio and video services firm located in Orlando, FL. Successfully hosted VIP guests including US President, US and state Senators, Governors, professional.

Riverwoods, IL

• Served as finance executive and program manager within North American Human Resources and Shared Services executive team, designing and implementing improvements within HR service delivery, talent acquisition strategy.
• Performed end to end review and restructure of US self-funded and fully insured benefits programs applicable to 8,500 US employees resulting in 10% reduction of employee medical premium costs and transparent cost.
• Supported development of flexible recruitment outsourcing model to decrease cost-per-hire and time-to-hire by 30% and 20%, respectively. With Chief HR Officer, restructured talent acquisition team and upgraded team.
• Strengthened credibility and control over the management/measurement of HR services and costs by creating monthly HR scorecard and efficiency metrics. Increased focus on eliminating or automating transaction volume to.
• Coached/advised Chief Human Resources Officer and operating managers to drive business results and professional growth. Increased focus on developing human capital while also improving efficiency and effectiveness of.

Terre Haute, IN And New York, NY

• Columbia House was largest direct marketer of entertainment products with +$1B sales annually. Key member of management team who worked with Blackstone Group to successfully complete leveraged buy-out from Sony and AOL.
• Led development of operations strategic plan to notably improve customer experience and materially increase operations efficiency.
• Hired and developed highly talented team of financial and operational professionals.
• Led all financial budgeting, analysis and development of key operating metrics to track operational progress for $250M operations and product spend. Developed business cases that led to +$15 M of capital investments to.
• Managed company wide margin improvement program reviewing +$600M of spend and resulting in +$60M of annual savings.
• Completed customer service review resulting in $3M investment to address service issues. Invested in technology to improve process, service and selling capabilities which grew add-on revenue from $0 to +$20M annually.

San Francisco, CA

• EoExchange was venture-backed startup developing industry-specific search solutions. Recruited to drive organic revenue growth by forging deeper customer relationships, product utilization and touch-points with.
• Jumpstarted planning and rollout of new product platform. Completed product upgrade across entire client-base on time eliminating need to support multiple platforms.
• Negotiated key customer renewal agreement that increased company’s ad-share by 50% while simplifying ad-share calculations to reduce collection risk and improve timing of cash flows.
• Restructured client-service multi-product, multi-location team to improve service and reduce costs. Initiative improved results by +$1M annually.

Indianapolis, IN And New York, NY

Macmillan Publishing was +$500M computer and general reference publisher within Simon and Schuster. Financial manager responsible for leading business unit financial areas and troubleshooting accounting and operations areas. Profit impact +$10M annually.Financial manager responsible for $100M division serving Corporate and Education customers. Led all.

Indianapolis, IN

Performed staff and senior audit duties. Chosen to work in turnaround management group. Was promoted to Senior Auditor in 2 years.