Dirk Armbrust Email & Phone Number

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

As a Managing Director, Dirk is a M&A transaction professional who helps clients with: business sales and carve-outs, acquiring businesses, growth and acquisition capital, and business valuations. He is also a leader in our Vant Business Advisors group where he helps business owners with: preparing for sale, growing revenue and cash flow, leadership.

Greater Los Angeles Area

B. Noble Inc., is a growth-oriented media and entertainment company seeking targeted strategic acquisitions. Our firm works with socially conscious business owners and media producers to transform their ideas in art and music into Noble ventures that make money and a difference. Our mission is to work with sponsors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders to.

* Drove contract execution and operational requirements for a $360MM Dell-MSFT Cloud subscription offering* Key interface with MSFT – led teams in resolution of complex business issues across this strategic relationship* Received Game Changer award for saving $25.8MM in invested Working Capital* Facilitate content for Dell-MSFT Executive meetings up to the.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

* Worked with client company management teams to better understand their business, focus on core competencies, and create Enterprise Value + Led turnaround initiatives to deliver substantial top and bottom-line results to a key healthcare client* Facilitated strategic deployment and operational improvement in support of revenue generation, increased.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

* Led 14 Field Consultants (district managers) and 123 stores generating $560MM in annual merchandise and gas sales + Aggressive growth in acquisitions, new stores, and same-store sales improvement + Organization included 78 franchised 45 company-operated stores - total headcount over 1,200* Led turnaround efforts to drive 23% Merchandise sales growth, and.

* P&L responsibility for 8 sites producing $43 million in ann. sales; region covers western US and 15 of top 20 customers* Member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) of the nation’s largest industrial crating and logistics company + Filled the critical corporate governance role in this privately-held company with no board of directors* Led turnaround to.

* Managed all aspects of four fulfillment centers — Austin, TX; Memphis, TN; Nashville, TN; and Winston-Salem, NC* These businesses provided packaging material to two key xpedx customers: FedEx and Dell; $96 million in annual sales* Project Manager for xpedx National Accounts’ acquisition of International Paper’s Dell packaging business* Selected to manage.

* Led start-up consumer packaged goods (CPG) facility for a division of xpedx that specialized in the rapid deployment of integrated operations + Allowed customer businesses to outsource key components of their value stream, while focusing on their own core competencies* Oversaw 33% increase in sales over first three months of tenure; increased inventory.

* Earned approval from Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) to provide products to Defense Department + DCMA evaluation included audit of financial health, financial controls, production capacity, and quality assurance* Established accounting system that allowed efficient operation of business while maintaining financial controls* Created financial.

* Supervised a team of personnel responsible for supply chain management and production flow of four businesses* Conducted detailed cost/benefit analysis of a proposed method of executing build plan for new generation of servers + Analysis led to first-year savings of over $5 million in excess operating costs* Responsible for production scheduling using i2.

* Supervised 50 people conducting the training of over 6,600 recruits annually* Managed all logistical requirements for a $7 million training facility - lowest operating costs in the Air Force* Led 85 people protecting mission-critical aircraft; orchestrated police operations for a community of 13,000* Selected as "Company Grade Officer of the Year, 1994".

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Operations Consulting And Manufacturing Management

Activities and Societies: Student Government representative; member Operations, Finance, and International Business Clubs.

International Business

Activities and Societies: Immersion program to study the global impact of the European Union

Bs, Management, German Minor

Activities and Societies: * Studies included numerous engineering courses (e.g. mechanical, electrical, aeronautical, thermodynamics). *.

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