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Greater Los Angeles Area

CFOPlans takes your Finance, Accounting and associated functions to the 'real' 21st century at a fraction of a cost of having an in-house team. With the most up to date technology and available tools, we make accounting, planning and forecasting accurate and fully streamlined. We use Cloud computing solutions like Intuit's QuickBooks Online, Xero, DropBox, ReceiptBox, Bill.com, Zenefits, Eshares and Google Enterprise to create a completely paperless finance back office with a dedicated team behind it, so you can focus on your business From Early State to Wall Street, CFOPlans is your Finance Back Office.

Paladin is in the results business.We engage at times critical to the evolution and success of a business. We are “hired guns” – analysts, strategic planners, operations executives, financial experts, marketing and communication gurus – that will go to work on your most vexing issues and help you find solutions.

Santa Clarita, Ca

Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Board of Director, and Co-Owner of the The Santa Clarita Valley Signal and Santa Clarita Gazette.We completed the sale of the Company in June, 2018.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Mobile Messenger, a privately held company, is the leading Global Mobile Solutions Provider in North America, supplying its marketing partners with cutting edge technology and a distribution network that facilitates the marketing of content to mobile telephone devices through the business to business, and direct to consumer, channels of distribution. • Increased US market share to over 50% in 2009 through a series of strategic, operational and financial initiatives.• Completed $40 million Bank Credit Facility in three weeks at competitive rates and terms.• Completed acquisition and integration of nation’s largest mobile messaging aggregator with $300 million retail revenue.• Significantly improved the Company’s cash flow by reducing daily sales outstanding by 40%.• Upgraded the accounting and finance organization, systems, personnel, processes and controls.• Successfully implemented an accounting system conversion from QuickBooks to Microsoft Dynamics AX. • Completed the Company’s first, ever audited financial statements for the last three years.

Woodland Hills, California

Youbet.com, a public company, is the leading provider of technology and pari-mutuel horse racing content to consumers through Internet / telephone platforms. Youbet is the leading on-line wagering company in the highly regulated horse racing gaming industry.• Grew company enterprise value from $8 million to $185 million over 6 years, a 40% annual compound growth rate.• Completed $19 million public offering and $15 million bank credit facility at attractive terms and pricing.• Closed two acquisitions for $59 million, which leveraged and complemented the core business.• Launched re-engineering of website and existing operations, becoming the recognized technology leader in the industry.• Expanded customer base from 25,000 to 285,000 customers over 6 years, a 50% annual compound growth rate.• Increased market share to 35% (industry leader) by differentiating and repositioning product offering in the marketplace. • Completed financial turnaround over the last 6 months resulting in 1Q08 EPS exceeding analyst estimates by $.07 per share.

Greater Los Angeles Area

The Walt Disney Company is a public, diversified worldwide entertainment company with operations in Media Networks,• Completed $20 million private placement with post money valuation of $150 million.• Built cutting edge $22 million on-line Business to Business Exchange where 5,000 members transact business.• Grew revenues from $1 million to $12 million in first year through new product development and brand repositioning.• Completed sale of on-line B2C business to QVC for $45 million.

WHN is a privately held, on-line leader building and managing on-line B2C stores for over 80 clients including ABC, NBC, Fox, CBS, E Channel, Playboy, MTV, TV Guide and Comedy Central.Managed 150 person company with functional responsibilities for finance, treasury, accounting, information technology, logistics, operations, product development, human resources, corporate development and legal.• Completed $20 million private placement with post money valuation of $150 million.• Built cutting edge $22 million on-line Business to Business Exchange where 5,000 members transact business.• Grew revenues from $1 million to $12 million in first year through new product development and brand repositioning.• Completed sale of on-line B2C business to QVC for $45 million.

Los Angeles, California

Managed worldwide daily operations with full P&L responsibility for annual sales of $2.8 billion. Functional responsibility of 1,400 employee team including worldwide retail, commercial and wholesale sales and operations, with over 2,000 retail outlets. • Turned around eroding company profitability and generated four year average cash flow of $175 million.• Increased daily product sales by 29% over three years in markets growing less than 1% per year.• Created and franchised three new businesses, built 170 new retail facilities and achieved 106% of plan.• Sold company for $2.1 billion, creating $1.2 billion in shareholder value in three years.

Executive Management, Business Administration And Management, General

Mba, Finance And Marketing

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Ba