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Impo International is a world-class footwear company designs and produces women's dress sandals, shoes and boots for major retailers, independents and footwear companies internationally. Impo is involved in the production of footwear, both for its well-known Impo branded line and on behalf of its many private label customers, all over the world, with an emphasis on providing quality fashion footwear. Responsible for distribution, warehouse operations, information technology, ecommerce and development of third-party vendor direct fulfillment, customer service, accounting, finance, FP&A, and human resources.• Identified and built out 11,000 sqft secondary warehouse location to accommodate peak season inventory levels and implemented WMS (warehouse management system) to streamline the pick, pack, and ship process to reduce bottlenecks in the system and increase throughput by 45%, while reducing labor cost by more than 30%• Buildout of back-office systems to support third-party vendor direct fulfillment growing top-line revenue in the ecommerce sales channel by more than 700% over four years from less than $600,000 to more than $5.0 million in revenue.• Negotiated and led the sale of the long-term lease of Verizon Communication tower for $453,000 and was instrumental in the successful defense of patent and trade dress litigation with a significantly larger competitor for $550,000.• Led the company’s COVID-19 response for government assistance with the Payroll Protection Program (“PPP”) $375,000, Employee Retention Tax Credit (“ERC”) $600,000, loan payment forgiveness $65,000, in addition to obtaining a $2.0 million EIDL (Emergency Injury Disaster Loan).• Increased the visibility and speed of financial reporting, analysis by customer and sales channel to identify selling opportunities, landed inventory requirements to support ecommerce sales forecast from quarterly to monthly, weekly and daily as needed.

Phoenix Footwear Group, Inc. specializes in quality comfort women’s footwear. The Company designs, develops, markets, and sells footwear in a wide range of sizes and widths under the brands Trotters®, SoftWalk®, Grey's Anatomy, and Bueno distributed in the United States and Canada, responsible for buy planning, distribution, finance, accounting, human resources and information technology.

Requested by CEOs and Boards to serve on Executive Teams to provide responsive financial, accounting and operations solutions that support and ensure successful implementation and results of corporate strategies for emerging businesses including Uniforms Express Int’l, Inc., a privately owned custom athletic team uniform designer, manufacturer and team dealer with direct to consumer sales in the collegiate, high school and youth athletic distribution channels both domestically and in Europe; MD Synergy Solutions, LLC, a Practice Management, EHR (“Electronic Health Records”) and RCM (“Revenue Cycle Management”) software developer and service provider with domestic and Indian operations; Projjix, a staff/consulting outsourcing agency utilizing an innovative interactive web-based business to professional service provider marketplace and Pivotstor, a developer and distributor of email security management software and data storage products.

Ashworth Inc (Aquired by Taylor Made - Adidas Golf, Nov 2008) a leading $210MM multi-brand channel designer, manufacturer and distributor of men and women’s golf-inspired lifestyle sportswear and headwear with domestic and international distribution, responsible for SEC and Board Reporting, Finance, Inventory Planning, Embroidery Operations, Distribution, Warehousing and Information Technology groups.

A privately owned, $150MM direct response sales and marketing company providing operational, fulfillment, and distribution of consumer products in the direct response television (“DRTV”), B2C web and national retail sales channels.

Bay Logics, a private equity investor backed, software developer of e-business corporate real estate management solutions.

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