Christopher A. Hill Email & Phone Number

Taylors, South Carolina, Us

Lead the Fortified Solar's efforts helping our customers finance their solar projects.

* Focusing on triage and transition projects. * Help the owners of companies to refine and understand the implications of strategic financial decisions. Work to minimize the risk in the decision by curating information related to the decision so that when the decision is made, it is a smaller leap of faith.* Work with companies ranging from zero revenue start-ups to companies with over $100,000,000 in annual sales revenue.* Assist in buy and sell side due diligence for M&A of private companies. Serve as the intermediary for the selling owner so that the selling owner can remain focused on the business during negotiations and due diligence process. Recently identified and recommended an opportunity to save $500,000 in taxes by delaying the closing of a transaction. Demonstrated to the buyer that they were under estimating EBITDA. Resulted in a $1,000,000 increase in the sales price of my client.* Assist clients in negotiating and utilizing interest rate swaps to mitigate interest rate risk.* Assisted in locating, negotiating, and closing over $69,000,000 in debt including a $23,500,000 CMBS loan, over $10,000,000 in mezzanine and private debt financing, and over $31,000,000 in commercial loans for clients.* Negotiate on the behalf of clients in emotional charged and critical situations.* Assist in research related to tax credit planning (Federal and State) and transactions that monetize tax credits.* Assisted owners in planning private equity raises for their businesses. Clients have successfully raised over $6,900,000 in private equity.* Serve the owners of companies in complicated personal financial decisions related to their company and / or their outside investments (such as an individual buying equity in a private company).* Often engaged as a “bridge” to deliver on financial projects that are outside of the corporate staff’s expertise and / or time capacity to handle.

Mauldin, South Carolina, Us

• Co-Founded built and sold the Company.• Developed the structure that allows the team the freedom to create while assuring clients professional, on budget, and timely delivery of videos. Identified, and later refining, its value proposition and target markets. (SlicedTomato specializes only in video production)• Expanded SlicedTomato’s client base so that it now includes privately held companies, creative agencies, charities, universities, government agencies, and large publically traded international companies. • Identified the opportunity to produce educational videos for planetariums around the world (FullDome videos). Led the team in overcoming significant technical challenges related to producing videos at resolutions over 4,000 x 4,000 pixels that completely cover a dome and immerse audiences. SlicedTomato’s FullDome videos are currently in over 400 planetariums around the globe educating and entertaining children in multiple languages.• Oversee the growth of the company. Last year, the company SlicedTomato was trusted to create over 300 videos. • Honored to be part of a team of professionals who are committed to excellence in this creative and exciting industry.www.slicedtomato.netwww.fulldomevideos.com

• Negotiated and structured commercial and A&D loans.• Recognized unused capacity in one business and created a concept that was implemented and successful in increasing sales during a down market time. • Recommended exposure limits and minimum return targets for the business investments. • Developed idea for the sale of an equity position of an investment in a company that was not performing as projected. Net result was an immediate return of 60% of the investment and a conversion of the remaining ownership to personally guaranteed and collateralized debt which is amortizing and yields a market rate of interest.• Performed due diligence on 150 acres of undeveloped lake front property. • Identified over $1,000,000 in one-time savings or income and over $470,000 in recurring annual savings.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Private Client Manager (PCM) / Private Bank – Vice President (2000 – 2004)• Responsible for all aspects of managing and expanding a Private Bank Portfolio consisting of relationships with individuals, trusts, foundations, and companies. Portfolio contained $155,000,000 in assets under management, $106,000,000 in assets in custody, $34,000,000 in loans outstanding, $12,000,000 in deposits, and generated $3,100,000 in annual revenue.• Regularly recognized as a leader in quickly learning and implementing new value add services. Sold the first outside manager investment product in South Carolina – 2001. Trained the PCM who sold the first interest rate swap sold by the Private Bank in the state – 2001.• Initiated and negotiated a revenue sharing referral agreement between the Bank and a client’s sports management business, creating the opportunity to gain access to their 45 NFL athletes as potential clients.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Responsible for all aspects of managing and expanding a commercial bank portfolio.• Sold, maintained, and delivered bank services including letters of credit, banker’s acceptances, bond investments, foreign exchange currency hedging, treasury management, and capital markets.• Initiated, developed, and managed a relationship with a start-up company that deposited $74,000,000 in proceeds raised through two equity offerings.• Initiated, developed, and managed a relationship with a publicly traded $3Bln sales company that resulted in $1,000,000 in deposits and annually generated enough treasury management sales that this one relationship made my treasury management sales goal for each year. This relationship was eventually transferred to the Global Bank of Bank of America.• Ranked #2 when compared to all Commercial Relationship Mangers in North and South Carolina in 2000. • Associate Relationship Manager – Commercial – Officer (1995 – 1996)• Recognized as the best performing Associate Relationship Manager in South Carolina in 1996.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Worked independently on multiple, simultaneous accounting projects.• Personally trained over 100 employees as part of a company-wide bank purchasing card roll-out.• Identified $100,000 in annual savings through cost analysis of the company’s trucking function.

• Monthly valued and booked raw material and finished goods inventory worth $39,000,000.• Performed cost analysis for two spinning plants – monthly budget of $3,000,000.• Identified, researched, documented, and presented to management a product pricing error which was costing the company $150,000 annually. Management discontinued the sale of the product as a result of the presentation.

Bs, Financial Management, Minor Accounting, Concentration Corporate Finance

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