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San Diego, Ca, Us

Totowa, New Jersey

Third generation family owned business in the print binding and photo finishing business serving customers in the printing, financial, commercial, and consumer segments. Spiral Binding is the leading provider in the industry with a very broad range of products and tremendous customer relationships leveraging the company's 85 year history and national footprint for distribution. Visit www.spiralbinding.com for more information

Greater San Diego Area

Assisting private equity firms and investors who have under performing operating companies or, are evaluating prospective new investments. Our focus is on building a thorough situation analysis outputting a prioritized game plan driving revenue growth, operational process improvement, and people development. This service is based on twenty years of experience leading three different companies in significant and sustainable turnarounds in three different industries.

San Diego

Recently retired from the daily President & CEO role while remaining as Chairman of the Board. Considering opportunities for other board positions, project work with private equity firms, or helping struggling companies with strategic turnaroundsProven track record over the past 20 years of turning around three different companies in different industries to build sustainable, strategic, profitable organic growth representing double digit CAGR's in revenue and earnings growth.

Greater San Diego Area

Global direct marketing company specializing in helping over 1.5 million small businesses grow revenue and profitability in 23 countries including China. Very sophisticated mass customization / personalization enabling one to one marketing on a large scale across all channels including a thorough understanding of the attribution and ROI of variable marketing spend.Have increased revenues, margins, cash flow and earnings significantly over the past seven years leading to a successful… Show more Global direct marketing company specializing in helping over 1.5 million small businesses grow revenue and profitability in 23 countries including China. Very sophisticated mass customization / personalization enabling one to one marketing on a large scale across all channels including a thorough understanding of the attribution and ROI of variable marketing spend.Have increased revenues, margins, cash flow and earnings significantly over the past seven years leading to a successful sale to a large PE firmKey Metrics: * Grew revenue from $160 Million to $300 Million (all organic) * Grew EBITDA from negative $7 Million in 2008 to +$26 Million in 2016 * Increased net product margins by 8% * Leveraged advanced data analytics to - Reduce customer acquisition cost 20% - Improve customer retention by 15%My responsibility was to lead the strategic direction and financial results of the company by continually enhancing our path, priorities, and most importantly assembling an extraordinary team. Show less

Saepio Technologies is a software as a service (SaaS) business selling to corporate marketing organizations, ad agencies, and print service providers. The value proposition is one of insuring brand protection while enabling controlled localization of the marketing content by different elements of the sales and distribution process. The solution is typically described as a marketing asset management solution for distributed advertising materials. The product incorporates a suite of components… Show more Saepio Technologies is a software as a service (SaaS) business selling to corporate marketing organizations, ad agencies, and print service providers. The value proposition is one of insuring brand protection while enabling controlled localization of the marketing content by different elements of the sales and distribution process. The solution is typically described as a marketing asset management solution for distributed advertising materials. The product incorporates a suite of components including a dynamic web storefront, asset management, print templates, direct mail list building, and back end e commerce capabilities.Increased sales organically 7X while generating sufficient cash flow to eliminate all debt and fund 3X increase in employees, R&D, and marketing resources. Consistent profitability on a monthly basis leveraging the SaaS business model. Show less

Recruited to this privately held $100 million dollar manufacturer of printing presses serving the direct mail and packaging markets This experience was a large scale turnaround of a business which had prospered during the 80’s as the leading manufacturer of printing presses for the business forms market. By the mid 90’s this market had disappeared due to desk top publishing capabilities and digital presses. In 1996, the division had eroding sales, no profits, was consuming… Show more Recruited to this privately held $100 million dollar manufacturer of printing presses serving the direct mail and packaging markets This experience was a large scale turnaround of a business which had prospered during the 80’s as the leading manufacturer of printing presses for the business forms market. By the mid 90’s this market had disappeared due to desk top publishing capabilities and digital presses. In 1996, the division had eroding sales, no profits, was consuming significant cash, and was strategically floundering.We utilized a strategic renewal process in late 96 to identify our core strengths and aligned them with market segments offering sustainable growth trends (Direct Mail market). We then applied a disciplined strategic plan incorporating measurable quarterly objectives to each key functional area. Finally, we converted the organization from a traditional functional structure to a process orientation to significantly improve productivityGrew revenues and returned the company to consistent profitability and cash flow enabling a sale of the company to a large multi-national. Show less

Responsible for the introduction of 3 new products integrating the sale of capital goods with consumables bundled into long-term financial packages into the broad printing industry. The worldwide marketing role included North American profitability responsibility. Additionally, had responsibility to develop a long-term strategic plan for the emerging computer to plate application including system integration to electronic pre press systems