Jim Patterson Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Naperville, Illinois, United States

Chicago, IL

Member of Senior Leadership Team, responsible for Accounting, Financial Reporting, Treasury, Finance, Budgeting, Tax, Purchasing and Strategic Projects for a privately owned, retail financial services company with approximately 210 locations in twelve states. PLS's more than 3.5 million customers cash approximately $8 billion in checks at PLS's check.

Long Beach, California

Non-standard personal auto and contract surety company and manager of run-off of worker compensation book of business >Brought leadership to the business and improved communications with management team and with owners>Improved cash flow by aggressively pursuing assets previously thought to be unavailable to the business >Improved timeliness of cash flows.

Des Plaines, IL

NYSE company with $500 million in revenue. Oversaw all finance functions and HR, IT and Legal at various points; Revenues, operating income and net income increased at an annual growth rate of 17%, 12% and 10%, respectively; Acquisitions – Acquired 22 companies; sold two companies. Expertise in due diligence, acquisition agreements, purchase accounting.

Northbrook, IL

Fortune 500 Company - Transitional role after IMC Global acquired The Vigoro Corporation in March 1996. I had been CFO of Vigoro and I stayed on after the acquisition to help achieve synergies in purchasing goods and services for the combined companies. Supervised 30 consultants in a strategic sourcing initiative that saved the company over $80 million per.

Chicago, IL

Fortune 500 Company - Assisted in taking Vigoro public (NYSE: VGR) in 1991 as a spin off from the Sam Zell-controlled holding company Great American Management and Investment, Inc. (NASDAQ: GAMI). Became CFO in January 1993 at age 36 and helped grow company into a Fortune 500 company before it was sold to IMC Global, Inc. in March 1996 for $1 billion.

Chicago, IL

Fortune 500 Company - Great American Management & Investment, Inc. (NASDAQ: GAMI) grew from $43 million to $2 billion in revenue from 1984 to 1993 when I left to take the CFO job at a GAMI subsidiary, The Vigoro Corporation, also a public company. Eagle Industries, a diversified manufacturing holding company, was GAMI's largest subsidiary with over $1.

Chicago, IL

I was recruited to GAMI by a colleague from Laventhol & Horwath, a national CPA firm, GAMI was a REIT in bankruptcy in the early 1980's when Sam Zell purchased a controlling stake and through GAMI made several acquisitions of profitable manufacturing and agricultural chemical companies and grew to $2 billion in revenue in 1992 from $43 million in revenue.

Chicago, IL

Laventhol & Horwath (L&H) recruited me out of college to join the audit staff of this fast growing public accounting firm. I was promoted to Senior Accountant after two years and to Audit Supervisor after five years. L&H grew to the fourth largest accounting firm in Chicago in 1984 with 400 staff as compared to 100 staff when I joined them in 1979.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Activities and societies: Accounting Internship at Topel Forman & Co CPAs. Sold Auto Parts at Sears to pay for.

Aa, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Vice President of Student Government and Speaker of the Student Senate - wrote Student Government Constitution..