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Custer, SD, US

San Juan, Puerto Rico, PR

Foster City, California, US

• Post-transaction, retained by Coupa to maintain overall responsibility for Travel Optimization, a new area of spend under management for the company. Responsibilities include driving revenue growth, providing insights.
• Reporting directly to the SVP, Business Development & Alliances, ensure the successful expansion of Yapta’s pre-existing distribution partner network in the business spend management environment
• Overall responsibility for the go-to-market plan for integrating, developing, marketing and selling Yapta’s solutions leveraging Coupa’s vast resources
• Ensure the achievement of revenue goals for the Coupa Travel Saver team

Seattle, WA, US

• Executive brought in to transform and grow the company from consumer-oriented to enterprise-driven, bringing Yapta’s dynamic, patent-pending solution to corporate business travel. Member of the Board of Directors.
• Successfully executed the sale of the business to Coupa Software Inc, a publicly traded $20B business spend management company, providing more than a 5X return to shareholders
• Navigated an 18-month exit process that involved 96 entities, 36 NDAs, and eight offers
• Successfully pivoted the company from consumer to B2B, launching FareIQ, RoomIQ, and TravelAI, driving a 35X revenue increase
• Led the company to the Deloitte Fast500 for North America for three years running - in 2017, 2018, and 2019 with 3-year growth rate of over 700%, 900%, and 300% respectively
• Landed on the Inc5000 Fastest Growing Tech Companies in North America for two straight years in 2018 and 2019.

New York, NY, US

• Executive retained and given expanded P&L responsibility for entire TravelClick channel management business.
• Ensure smooth transition and integration of EZYield into TravelClick operations
• Tasked with successfully migrating 1,850 customers to EZYield technology and product suite
• Responsible for integration of EZYield solution with iHotelier, TravelClick’s CRS
• Ensured open communication and employee buy-in for impending operational changes

• Chief Executive Officer at EZ Yield.com, Inc, brought in to lead the company from entrepreneurial environment to true global business organization with intent to drive to an exit event within three to five years..
• Achieved 30%+ YOY revenue growth, surpassing key milestone for the company
• Successfully accomplished an all-cash exit strategy ahead of plan – in one year – at multiples exceeding industry trends
• Managed entire due diligence process including confidentiality, documentation creation, validation, and Q&A
• Initiated and implemented foundational business processes to establish structure and discipline for eventual exit
• Sole point of contact for all business related information for buyer and external 3rd parties

Executive leader with proven success in CEO, M&A and Business Development roles within global startups and Fortune 500. Specialize in joint venture, entrepreneurial, startup environments.Interested in general management of startups, M&A, investment banking, and joint venture advisory roles. Willing to relocate domestically and internationally.

Dublin, Dublin, IE

• Moneydirect is an international joint venture between Sabre Inc (USA) and Amadeus IT (Spain) that processes over $2.5B in travel payment transactions annually.Launch CEO that led the organization through an aggressive.
• Successfully expanded AU/NZ business operations to the US, UK, France, Italy, Canada, Germany, and Spain
• Achieved 18% YOY revenue growth and 60% improvement on EBITDA
• Expanded customer base from less than 6,000 in AU/NZ to over 12,000 globally
• Successfully outsourced development to premier global provider with no code freeze or customer impact, expanding bandwidth of available resource by 700% with no budget impact
• Implemented a state of the art, robust, highly scalable, and completely redundant infrastructure ahead of schedule and below budget

Southlake, Texas, US

• Led Sabre’s centralized business development group which identified, evaluated, and executed new strategic business opportunities, initiatives, mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, alliances and/or joint ventures.
• Worked extensively with key competitor, identifying 11 areas in which the companies could work together to increase revenue, decrease costs, or gain operational efficiencies
• Successfully drove deal and integration teams on two international multi-million dollar acquisitions ($18M / $5M)
• Developed robust process and procedure mapping for cross-organizational purchase and implementation of acquisition candidates

Southlake, Texas, US

• Reporting to the Group President, led a unique, upstart organization that created, executed, and delivered best practice marketing assessments, market strategies, brand messaging, collateral development, and customer.
• Drove the renaming and repositioning of SabreSonic, Sabre’s reservation system sold to airlines
• Successfully created and launched Sabre Airline Solutions re-branding to “smart.proven.bankable”
• Published and transformed Ascend, an internally published magazine distributed globally to airline executives, from a product-based brochure to an award-winning magazine, garnering four Silver Quill and two Bronze.
• For the first time, translated and delivered the airline product dictionary, containing over 70 products and services, into Spanish, Russian, and Mandarin for global customers

Southlake, Texas, US

Held various positions across Sabre Holdings, Inc including Director, e-Commerce Strategy; Business Development & Alliances in support of Airline Solutions; Business & Technical Planning; and Financial Systems. Each position leveraged diverse background and expertise while capitalizing on strong business and technical skills.

Columbus, Ohio, US

Provided financial analysis, computer support and information liaison activities between Finance and Information Technology for R&D company. Analyzed financial processes to determine candidates for enhancement, including rapid prototyping & testing. Performed web development for final 18 months, including webmaster for Finance Dept Home Page and numerous.

Managed the entire business cycle of an aluminum jet boat manufacturing corporation. A/R, A/P, payroll, G/L, inventory control, costing, financial management, cash flow analysis, fiscal budgeting, interim/fiscal year financial statements, 1120 corporate tax return w/supporting schedules, workpapers, and documentation.

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