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Mentor small and startup business owners to help them achieve their life and business goals.

United States

The goal is clear - to help each business leader achieve more personal and professional success. Each group is designed to help members improve both their businesses and their personal lives.My group members get the collective wisdom of a group of respected business leaders to help them solve complex challenges and make better decisions. The benefit is.

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The goal is simple: to help each business leader achieve more personal and professional success. Each group is designed to help members improve both their businesses and their personal lives.In addition to issue processing in a confidential peer-group setting, I offer on-to-one coaching and access to world-class speakers who challenge business owners to.

• Chief Financial Officer of Pickering Incorporated (a wood-products manufacturing company)
• Successfully negotiated three rounds of bank financing while positioning the company for a Chapter 11 filing. The final round was D.I.P. financing from the existing lender.
• Managed cash flow during difficult operating period prior to bankruptcy filing under daily bank review.
• Negotiated with a large number of institutional lenders, trade creditors and leasing companies.
• Developed a post-petition cash collateral budget, preparing the company for a post-petition sale.
• Sold off or liquidated three divisions in bankruptcy court.

• Division Director at RHI Management Resources, a division of Robert Half (senior financial management consulting)
• Turned around historically weak performing financial management consulting practice in Seattle area for this $3B firm.
• Achieved record sales performance by managing and leading team by example.
• Completely restructured team from the ground up.
• Achieved a gross margin 20.0% over budget within six months, and set new sales records for the division that held for nearly 10 years.

• CEO & Chief Financial Officer of Mill Creek Evergreens (a seasonal consumer products company)
• Turnaround at this floral products business was initiated by injection of new equity capital and bank debt and a restructure of the company around profitable lines of business as well as establishing its own.
• Improved gross margins substantially (to 63% from 47% for one line of business, to 45% from 38% for another).
• Completely restructured production lines and processes to allow a 500% increase in domestic capacity and production.
• Expanded domestic sales by over 500%.
• Started and managed a subsidiary in The Netherlands to internalize distribution of product to the EU countries and Switzerland.

• GM and CFO of T.C. Products in Tacoma WA (an industrial and consumer bleach manufacturing and packaging company), with full P&L responsibility for all areas of the company's operations. Purchased the plant, equipment.
• Implemented a financial reporting system and developed customized monthly reporting (accurate margin analysis by LOB/product/customer/period, as well as sales, accruals, sales variances, inventory variances, capital.
• Established external financing in the form of bank debt and a bond issue, effecting 2 leveraged re-capitalization’s of the company to repay most of the investor’s initial investment.
• Managed a $5.4MM real estate construction project: from conception, through design, financing, permitting and construction. Used IRB financing with an all in financing cost averaging appx. 4.25% over the first five.
• Developed and implemented many real estate and construction projects, including tank farms, blow-molding systems, new production lines, new continuous production processes, etc.
• Responsible for all aspects of company: production, warehousing, vendor relationships, sales, accounting, finance, legal, safety, regulatory, and human resources.

• Vice President and Commercial Banking Officer, Bank of America in Los Angeles CA (integrated commercial banking company)
• Created, underwrote, and managed a loan portfolio to corporations ($50 - $500MM) in LBO’s, MBO’s, bond financing, derivatives, and conventional bank financing.
• Delivered all the products of the bank, including credit products, investment banking, real estate financing, highly leveraged transactions, asset based credit facilities, industrial revenue bonds, acquisition.
• Specilized knowledge in highly leveraged transactions, real estate, construction, finance companies.
• Experienced in a broad range of additional industries including manufacturing, health care, import/export, distribution, trucking.
• Responsible for credit analysis, underwriting and decision making for both new and existing clients.

• Commercial Banking Officer, Union Bank in Los Angeles CA (integrated commercial banking concerns)
• Created, underwrote, and managed a loan portfolio to corporations ($10 - $200MM) in a variety of industries in LBO’s, MBO’s, bond financing, derivatives, and conventional bank financing.
• Developed new business in a variety of commercial/investment banking and cash management products.
• Credit analysis, underwriting and decision making for both new and existing business.
• Member of a team that successfully packaged and syndicated a $350 million construction project financing for a hydroelectric generating facility. Built tracking system for project construction.
• Substantial training in sales, accounting, business analysis, credit analysis, and underwriting.