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Westlake, Texas, US

Austin, TX, US

Austin, TX, US

• Planview, a TPG and TA Associates portfolio company, has one mission: to build the future of connected work, from ideas to impact. Planview helps organizations accelerate the achievement of what matters most.
• Led company to outstanding financial performance with revenues approaching $500M, more than $400M in recurring, +40% EBITDA % and strong operating cash flows
• Lead executive to create and drive a sustainable cost advantage by investing in Planview’s Bangalore (India) Capability and Innnovation Center (or CIC) for offshore development and back-office support; grew the CIC.
• Completed the acquisition and full integration of two critical acquisitions: Tasktop and Enrich – to enter the fast growing Value Stream Management market, and acquire an AI/data science capability and added capacity.
• Re-invention of ARR snowball calculation and modeling, to a full bottoms-up transactional database for new insights and additional detailed analyses (FX scenarios, cohort analysis etc.)

• DealerSocket, a Vista portfolio company, is a leading provider of software for the automotive industry. DealerSocket’s broad suite of products is led by an advanced Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Dealer.
• Built and implemented a scalable financial and operational framework to manage the key growth vectors for driving business success and maximum value: ARR, product margin, sales productivity, Deal Desk
• Launched and built the Bangalore, India CoE for offshore development and back-office support. Ramped to 250 productive headcount in first 18 months.
• Led and completed the acquisition of Auto/Mate (strategic product addition of a franchise DMS), accompanied by a recapitalization of DealerSocket
• Fully integrated back-office operations of Auto/Mate into DealerSocket, and partnered with Exec Team to build an integrated enterprise across Sales & Marketing, Operations, Product & Technology
• Closed the strategic sale to Solera creating a new powerful leader in automotive software

• OutMatch is a leading provider of HR software and services focused on talent acquisition. The company’s key products of assessments, interview and reference checking software focuses on driving a consultative and.
• Integrated OutMatch’s two predecessor companies into a single entity including complete build of back-office: building a best in class team, with cutting edge tools and proven processes
• Implemented and institutionalized financial and operating reporting structure across the company, including the installation of SaaS dashboard metrics driving 20% recurring revenue growth

• Allegro is the global leader in commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) solutions for multiple commodity types, including petroleum, natural gas, power, and coal. The company's commodity trading and risk.
• Successfully led the company to a record year of financial performance in 2014: 23% revenue growth to $79M and +35% EBITDA growth to 16% of revenues
• Led and successfully closed the company's recapitalization bringing in new investors (Vector Capital) to fuel and accelerate the company's strong growth

Parsippany, NJ, US

INTTRA is the world’s largest, multi-carrier network for the ocean shipping industry. The company's solutions enable customers to efficiently and easily plan, book, manage, settle and analyze ocean freight shipments with the 40 leading carriers.Responsible for all of INTTRA’s financial operations and the corporate development function. In partnership with.

• CFO and head of Operations for Ariba's profit center - Customer Management, the business unit which owns 100% of Ariba's revenues, and approximately 1,100 people primarily in account management and services delivery.
• Helped Ariba achieve record revenues and earnings, as well as new highs in its key operating metrics
• Key contributor in the company’s sale to SAP in 2012

• Quadrem is a global and growth focused B2B e-commerce company.
• Managed the company’s financial performance to achieve numerous “firsts”:
• First full year (2005) of operating profit and positive cash flow
• First full year of positive Net Income in 2007
• In early 2008, led a multi-functional, trans-Atlantic team through to filing a Prospectus with the UK Listing Authority, for a LSE Main Market listing.
• Successful exit for all stakeholders (shareholders, customers and employees) with strategic sale to Ariba for $168M USD, closed January 2011.

• Canux Group Inc founded in 2002, is a private investment and management company.
• At the request of the Board, delivered a full report and set of key strategy and operational recommendations to re-position a private mid-stage wireless softswitch company for the investors to profitably exit

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• Led a team of 15 highly-skilled, subject matter experts selected for a special Presidents’ task force to architect, develop, implement and institutionalize the Delivery Customer Assurance (DCA) framework - a pervasive.
• Within 2 years, DCA was institutionalized across Nortel, with over 2,000 checkpoints executed, and applied to more than $5B of opportunities and projects.
• Delivered an overall project performance improvement of +3% in Gross Margin and was key to the company’s return to profitability.

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• In partnership with the President, responsible for all business activities, performance delivery and achievement of Nortel’s business in Japan.
• Led the two year turnaround in Nortel Japan’s Service Provider business from a 20% loss on approximately $100M of revenue, to positive 25% return, on sales of more than $350M; driving Nortel Japan’s overall financial.
• Integrated the business operations for Nortel and Bay Networks in Japan (headcount of more than 400): accomplishing the seamless migration of the business, resources and assets, and timely resolution of all statutory.

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• Full P/L responsibility and authority for Network Solutions including Internet Thruway: the industry’s first switch bypass solution for improved network performance and efficiency to handle the rapid increase in.
• Drove business, product and commercial strategy for full network deployment in a major Bell Operating Company; and subsequent upgrade to the next generation dial-access platform.

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• Lead Finance executive for all North American Major Accounts (annual revenue: +$5B) and Public Carrier Networks’ Marketing - account strategies, pricing, bid and proposal financial analysis.
• Finance leader for the successful securitization of Nortel’s first major facility ($400M US) in software buyout receivables to a bank consortium.

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Held a wide range of increasingly responsible positions throughout Nortel, including Finance, Business Planning and Product Line Management; in Corporate HQ, operating divisions in Canada, US and Japan.

Master Of Business Administration, Finance

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Chemical Engineering