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Chicago, Il, Us

Bartlett, Illinois, Us

Full P&L responsibility for Metro-Chicago middle market designer, manufacturer, and installer of highly customized consumer environments serving the top home improvements, retail, grocery, beauty, and hospitality companies. Colony Display enriches the consumer experience by bringing its customer's strategic vision to life, utilizing a highly specialized and experienced team that shares a collective commitment to providing elevated service solutions. Acute attention to detail combined with a heavy focus on efficiency allows us to stand out in our market, providing full-service delivery on our promises.

Mid-Cap Business Improvement & Turnaround Specialist to Private Equity-owned &/or Privately-owned businesses in manufacturing & service.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:- Developed & implemented 3-year Strategic Plan - first in company history.- Led process to establish annual business & financial plan, with supporting goals, objectives & specific actions to assure success & organizational alignment.- Established "Organizational Development & Upgrade" system, including; assessment, competency analysis, succession planning, and individual & organizational development.COMPANY: Third-party logistics (3PL), freight payment, audit & reporting services company that helps customers reduce transportation costs by improving efficiency, leveraging buying power & maximizing clients’ freight & transportation spend. EXPERIENCE: Full P&L responsibility for $90+ million privately held 3PL company. Contracted to develop & implement first strategic plan in company’s history, with supporting plans and milestones, including a “path to $150 million” with emphasis on; Revenue Growth, Internal Efficiency & Organizational Development (Top-grading) with specific initiatives & actions to drive optimum results. Assignment included a cultural transformation, taking the company from people-driven to process-driven & establishing accountability throughout the organization while maintaining the highest integrity.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS: - Full P&L responsibility for middle market PE-owned glass, glazing & metals manufacturer & installer.- Identified & implemented $4.5mm in savings in the first 2 months, & another $500k within the next 30 days.- Redesigned business development process, significantly increasing new business opportunities.- Implemented production improvement process, driving waste from the business.- Created a culture of dignity, trust, respect, compassion, integrity, accountability, and responsibility.- Upgraded the organization; implementing a robust succession plan, individual development & organizational development.- Led the development of the company's first Strategic Plan.COMPANY: TEPCO is a privately owned regional glass and glazing contractor as well as a window and curtainwall manufacturer having; its headquarters and a manufacturing facility in Dallas, TX.EXPERIENCE: Full P&L responsibility for (and turnaround of) middle-market private equity (PE) owned manufacturing & glazing company serving the commercial construction industry.

Joplin, Mo, Us

ACCOMPLISHMENTS: - With full P&L responsibility for (& successful turnaround of) lower-middle market PE-owned composites, metal, & assembly manufacturer - - improved overall operations & financial performance while successfully executing the sale/exit of the company to a strategic buyer.- Created a culture of "Honor, Courage & Commitment" - dignity, trust, respect, compassion, integrity, accountability, etc.- Improved EBITDA from a loss of $2mm to a profit run-rate of $2.5mm, providing a sustainable return on equity to private ownership, upgraded the leadership team, and executed strategy to achieve the next level of growth. - Upgraded company leadership & management team through targeted training, strategic hiring, “top grading” & succession planning.- Established "Organizational Development & Upgrade", including; assessment, competency analysis, succession planning, and individual & organizational development.- Improved effectiveness of communications with the board of directors/owners.COMPANY: ABLE Manufacturing & Assembly LLC is an OEM single-source provider of turn-key painted & gel coat fiberglass composite assemblies, metal fabrications, fine machined products, plastic vacuum thermoform assemblies, specialty vehicle operator cabs, operator pulpits & industrial enclosures.EXPERIENCE: Full P&L responsibility for (and turnaround of) lower middle-market private equity (PE) owned manufacturing company with ~200 employees serving the Agricultural, Industrial, Construction, Off-Highway, Mining, Light, Medium & Heavy Duty Truck, Mass Transit, Aerospace, Military/Defense, Medical and Laboratory equipment industries. Responsibilities include developing, executing & leading the revenue, operational efficiency & organizational development strategy to drive sustainable double-digit revenue and EBITDA growth/value - and successfully sold/exited the business in August 2021.

Springfield, Mo, Us

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:- With full P&L responsibility, significantly improved EBITDA/operating income & revenues while substantially reducing debt in 2 years & obtaining full favorable rate bank refinancing - - developed & executed the improvement strategy to drive sustainable double-digit revenue & EBITDA growth for the company in preparation for strategic exit/sale. Having broad business knowledge & expertise in building best-in-industry organizations was the perfect combination to lead Bancsource forward.- Improved operating income from 10% loss to nearly 10% profit ROS while increasing sales by 30% in 2 years.- Developed & implemented Strategic Plan - first in company history.- Led process to establish annual business & financial plan, with supporting goals, objectives & specific actions to assure success & organizational alignment.- Developed, documented & implemented processes, procedures & systems to promote consistency & sustainability.- Established "Organizational Development & Upgrade", including; assessment, competency analysis, succession planning, and individual & organizational development.COMPANY: Bancsource is a private-equity-owned, independent industry leader of financial equipment sales and service in North America. For over 35 years, Bancsource has provided financial and payment processing solutions with convenient, value-added services that improve client equipment and process efficiency.EXPERIENCE: Full P&L responsibility for (and successful turnaround of) < $50 million private-equity (PE) owned financial services company with 240 employees serving the financial & retail technology segment - including all functions; sales, national field service, supply chain, product support, finance, HR, IT, customer service, etc. Responsibilities include developing, executing & leading the revenue, operational efficiency & organizational development strategy to drive sustainable double-digit revenue and EBITDA growth for the company.

Arnold, Missouri, Us

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:- First non-family President & CEO in company's 68 year history.- Successfully led turnaround; significantly improving profitability & cash flow, & reducing debt.- Led Strategic Plan & Business Plan development & implementation - both firsts in company history.- Achieved ‘highest’ profit level (dollars & percent of sales) in the history of the company.- Diversified customer base from 90% automotive content to less than 60% by obtaining new customers in the agricultural, government/military, environmental, consumer products, etc. industries, a crucial accomplishment in advance of the recession & automotive downturn.- Significantly reduced debt & fixed costs.- Achieved preferred supplier status with all customers, leading to market-share growth.- Reduced cost of quality from > 4% to 1% within 2 years.- Upgraded company leadership & management team through targeted training, strategic hiring, “top grading” & succession planning.- Led design & implementation of “Program Management” process, achieving improvements in new product launches, launch cycle time, customer satisfaction, cost inefficiencies, defect prevention, capacity management, inventory reduction, etc. And, considered "Best in Industry" for companies our size by customers.- Significantly reduced safety incident rate within first 12 months.COMPANY: Family-owned contract manufacturing company; producing plastic injection molded, insert/over-molded plastic & metal stamped products - with a large in-house tool, die & fine machined operations.EXPERIENCE: Full P&L responsibility for $50 million privately held (family-owned) manufacturing company with 250 employees serving the automotive/heavy vehicle (safety restraints, interior components, etc), industrial, medical, government/military, building/construction, agricultural, environmental & consumer products industries.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:- Represented General Motors & Nissan to advise & coach supplier leadership team charged with consolidating several manufacturing plants while preventing critical OEM line shutdowns.- Represented Nissan to advice & coach leadership team in bankruptcy, preventing critical OEM line shut downs.- Identified acquisition target & investors, including management team, securing $16 million in capital funding. And then, led due diligence process to evaluate and justify acquisition of $100 million Consumer Products company, including manufacturing capacity/capability, marketing/business development strategy, financial viability etc.COMPANY(IES): Partnered with 3 internationally recognized consulting groups; Business Synergetics, Supply Chain Edge, & Stout Risius & Ross.EXPERIENCE: Full project leadership specializing in manufacturing, operations & logistics business improvement & turnarounds, including Fortune 100 companies, as well as small & mid-sized businesses.

Ashland, Ohio, Us

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:- Led divisional efforts to assist the parent corporation in successfully exiting bankruptcy within 6 months of joining the company by aggressively & rapidly re-engineering systems & processes.- Grew EBITDA from marginal loss to $14.9mm profit (10% ROS) in 3 years while growing revenues by $50mm.- Introduced 6-sigma & lean methodologies to the entire corporation.- Led integration of a $20 million acquisition, positioning the Hedstrom brand for growth.- Penetrated new market & distribution channels, leading to 30% organic growth including the addition of complimentary product lines.- Launched “innovative” new branded products (Factor X), increasing revenues by $15 million within 18 months of conception.- Achieved ‘highest’ divisional profit (dollars & percent of sales) in the history of the company.- Championed product launch “stage-gate" process significantly improving product development, launch cycle time, total manufacturing costs & product introduction which led to market share growth by exceeding customer expectations.COMPANY: Private equity-owned (Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, Inc.) manufacturing, marketing & distribution company of branded products (Hedstrom and Factor X); producing metal formed, metal stamped, metal fabricated, metal tubing, fine machined tooling & product, injection-molded, blow-molded, rotary/roto-molded, fine machined steel & wooden products (with an in-house tool and die shop) into big box, sporting goods & specialty retailers.EXPERIENCE: Full P&L responsibility for $150 million multi-plant/multi-national, private equity owned manufacturing company with 800+ employees serving the consumer products & industrial industries.

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