Senior business leader offering 25+ years of hands-on experience building and leading high performing, growth-oriented, middle market, entrepreneurial companies. Experience with private equity, strategic investors, public companies, Boards and shareholders. Combine financial, operational and strategic skills that drive superior execution and results. Excellent leader consistently recognized for an energized, can-do management style with a track record of solving complex issues, improving financial performance and heightening productivity.Significant accomplishments include:• Led or involved with five successful liquidity transactions for private equity, strategic investors, public companies and their employees. One transaction raised $250 million and formed a business partnership with a European strategic investor, resulting in a 500% return in four years.• Successfully closed six value-adding acquisitions and engaged in resulting integrations, mostly foreign companies, over a 2-year period. • Proactively addressed rising costs by developing a self-funded insurance program. The program achieved annual savings of 33%, more than $1 million per year, and to date cumulative saving of over $3 million. Implemented tax planning strategies that led to the recapture of $2 million in net operating loss carryforward.• Created an HR team and an Enterprise Risk Management functions that drove employee growth of 80% and revenue growth of 125% over three years. • Developed and implemented a European manufacturing and distribution strategy that reduced inventory and provided a better match between supply and demand. The result was an expansion in the number of distributors and a 25% increase in sales.