I own a management consulting firm (Foretell, LLC) and serve as a Principal and Portfolio Manager for private equity firm, Meridian General, LLC. In this role I serve in various capacities including President, COO/CFO and Senior Analyst for acquired portfolio companies. I am currently serving as COO/CFO of PowderCoat Services and previously served as President/COO of Silver Spur Corporation for Meridian. Previous to consulting, I spent 25 years in progressive leadership roles for multinational corporations and portfolio companies of private equity groups. I am a strong team developer and confident leader with extensive experience in manufacturing and distribution industries across the Americas, Europe and Asia. I deliver repeatedly demonstrated results in driving companies into robust business and organizational models enabling near term and sustained profitability. I greatly enjoy challenging leadership positions that enable me to leverage my combined sales, financial and operational leadership skills is support of achieving an organization’s key objectives. 1. In addition to significant experience with major corporations, I possess strong independent company financial and operational leadership experience and successfully led the spin-off of a major ($300 million) ITT division into private equity ownership and management.2. I have both managerial and analytical experience across all key financial and operational disciplines including strategic planning, business development, budgeting, performance management, customer management, cash management, audit management, BOD communications, investor relations, and investment returns analysis and management, etc..3. I bring significant Mergers & Acquisition and major project leadership and management experience including deal management and major restructuring activities.