Jaz Syed Rashid Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Greater Los Angeles Area

I have always been passionate about Business Growth.After successfully leading many companies to improve their performance through Organizational Structure & Implementation of Strategic Business Plans to acquire greater Market Shares & Profitable Revenues, I founded a Consulting Firm "Group North America" (GNA) with a vision to Generate New Avenues for my Clients Business that enables them to enrich their revenues & profits with sustainable growth. I have led C-level business discussions & decisions to develop new line of business and design business Vision, Goals, Strategy & Structure.I have been Creative with identifying & developing areas of growth opportunities:• Sales & Marketing • Streamline Operations• New Business Development• Building a Strong Team • Legal / Risk assessment• Budgeting / Finance / P&L• Sustainable & Repetitive Growth GNA stands committed to drive Mutual Success with our Valued Clients!

California, United States

During my tenure with the Wireless Industry, I had made great friends who held executive roles. One of the executives at Motorola always invited me to be a spokesperson during their events, hence I was at the CES Exhibition with Motorola as a spokesperson, during which I came across many app developers and one also happened to be an executive from Bank of America. This meeting with Bank’s executive was interesting enough for me to have a new horizon, as I joined Banking Industry at the prestigious Bank of America.Starting my career with Bank as a Market VP, soon propelled to a Regional VP and soon after advancing to a Senior Vice President for the entire West Division. The experience earned as Senior Vice President at Bank of America was the cornerstone of my career, where I was honored to play a pivotal role in leading and driving growth of the West Division, overseeing Consumer, Small Business, and Private Banking operations and guiding my respective teams to support a broad portfolio of Small & Mid-Size Businesses by significantly enhancing their profitability and achieving strategic objectives. Responsible for Sustainable Growth of Bank of America, assuring best long term and healthy relations are in place for the best interest to our Clients, Partners, Investors and Employees. Assured my Teams were repeatedly delivering best long term Client experience supported by balanced growth. My core objective is to be relentless in effective business operations, sales & development. My Team and I always strategized, implemented and executed numerous projects to further advance our ability to endeavor impactful lift on Market Share, Retention and improved Book of Business with strong Deposit Balance Growth to support a sustainable and profitable growth. My profound Senior Executive role at Bank of America, solidified my reputation as a transformative leader with a strong business acumen for managing large-scale operations effectively.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Through the inner circle of elites within the Wireless Industry, I landed an opportunity to Co-found and be the Managing Partner of “EZ Star Solutions”, a unique software company that supported wireless content management / repair & return avoidance tool in US Market.Leading the organization as their COO, I was responsible for development & growth: New Business opportunities, Sales & Operations, Risk Management and Profitability of the Company. Led Company’s vision in providing profound service, support & solutions to Wireless Operators (Carriers, MVNOs, National Retailers and Wireless Retailers) to deliver the best customer service experience within their Retail environment by having all of their end consumers walk-out-working and completely satisfied with their wireless needs. Led C-level discussion & negotiated agreements with numerous known organizations including Best Buy, Radio Shack, Costco, Boost Mobile, T-Mobile, Sprint & China Telecom; enterprise-level decisions involving business vision and strategy; standardization of best practices in Sales/Marketing/Operations, and project governance oversight.Through our unique content management / repair & return avoidance tool we improved and enhanced mobile customer experience amongst all operators, giving the operators a competitive advantage to add additional value in their business growth, profitable revenue stream and retaining long term customers.

Greater Los Angeles Area

I joined TGS Wireless the Distribution Company as a Director of Sales & Operation and soon after advanced my career to lead the entire TGS Wireless Group as the Executive Vice President & Managing Partner. When I joined TGS Wireless, it’s distribution was limited to Southern California with only 120 points of distribution, whereas with the support of the great Team, we were able to scale the company’s reach to go Nationwide, increasing the points of distribution to over 5000 small business locations. In addition to that we also successfully diversified and scaled business into 5 separate entities under TGS Wireless Group: 1. TGS Wireless INC: Wholesale & Distributor of Wireless Handsets, Sprint + Nextel Wireless Services & also Samsung + Motorola OEM Accessories 2. KHL Communications: Retail Stores for Sprint & Nextel3. TM Wireless: Retail Stores for T-Mobile4. Selini Wireless: Wholesale & Distributor of S. Korean Wireless MVNO Helio’s sales in US5. DoDo Mobile: Mobile Data Transfer & Gaming AppAt TGS Group we strategically aligned all five businesses to provide Service, Support and Solutions to all B2B, B2C & C2C to gain success. My experience in leading all five entities of TGS Wireless Group enabled me to enhance my business acumen skills furthermore as I and my elite team was responsible for: • Strategic Business Development & Innovations• Team Building & Market Development• Sales, Operations & Marketing• Implementation & Execution of New Market, Product, System & Processes• Mergers & Acquisition / Market Share Growth• Procurement Center / Inventory Management / Distribution / Logistics• Legal & Risk Management• Contract & Negotiations• In House Team of Customer Service, Tech, Underwriting & HR• Commission Structure / Forecasting / Finance / Budgets / P&L Empowering and growing TGS Wireless Group from a Small Business to Mid-Size Company with an annual turnover of over $500MM was indeed an epic moment of accomplishment.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Platinum Mobile’s CEO being a great friend, reached out for support in setting up his new venture of an MVNO Wireless Service. Joined Platinum Mobile as a Fractional EVP, supported the organization with: • Infrastructure, strategic business planning & development• Contract negotiations with Sprint for an MVNO agreement • Negotiated purchase agreements with OEM Wireless Handsets configured to our MVNO specs• Wireless Activation & Billing Portal• Wireless Handset & Service Plan Pricing to Consumer• Branding, Marketing & Event Planning• Hiring & Training: In House & Field Team• Tech & Customer Service Call Center• Procurement Center / Inventory Management / Distribution / Logistics• Commission Structure / Forecasting / Finance / Budgets / P&L• Direct & Indirect Sales Team to support Retailers, Distributors, Tele Sales & In House Sales• Strategically developed the logistic flow from purchasing, replenishing and shipping activated cell phones directly to the end consumers. • Negotiated point of sales distributions through the existing online base of Costco, Wal-Mart, Target and Infomercials with QVC.• Created an entrepreneurial E-Commerce business opportunity for B2B / Independent Sales Operators.The experience at Platinum Mobile, enabled me to gain an in depth of an appreciation and understanding on how to set up the foundation and a strategic aligned infrastructure of a new business to sync with their vision and endeavor operational excellence, profits & sustainable growth.

I walked into Radio Shack to buy a microphone for the podium at the restaurant I worked at and little that I knew, the manager at that Radio Shack also worked with the same restaurant prior and got me interested in working for this incredible company. There I started my new journey transitioning from Restaurants into Electronics and Wireless world, joining the company as a Store Manager / DMC and soon propelling to District Manager position. Responsible of business development, strategic planning, sales, profits, inventory management, loss prevention, recruiting, hiring, training, coaching and most importantly empowering all Managers to have their team to drive repetitive sales growth with profitable gross margins & improved net profits on P&L. Implemented and executed new product launch, product placement, marketing, pricing and sales promotion.• Successfully led a team of over 300+ employees to succeed by empowering them to always strive for the best, value your customer need and sell on value. • Ran an operation with over 3-digit sales gains, best Wireless Hit Rate and with most improved YOY performance growth that resulted with our District to have best in class Gross Profits and all other KPI Revenue Drivers complimenting an annual turnover of $100MM.• Was honored to receive numerous awards as Manager of the month, National Wireless Leader and even back-to-back Manager of the year.Here I was fortunate to gain knowledge of the Retail industry, increase market share, strength of alliance partnerships with Wireless & Satellite carriers (such as Verizon, Sprint & Dish Network), importance of profitable upselling, understanding customer’s need and most importantly always sell on value. After learning so much from my colleagues and Team, I was privileged to be a part of the mentorship program, honoring me the opportunity to mentor many so they can also drive furthermore success in their personal growth, lead with integrity and upheld Company’s Vision.

Advancing my career to full-service restaurant, leading as the Sales Manager for Darden Restaurant’s Olive Garden, where my core responsibilities included:• Sales & Operations• Marketing• Hiring, Training & Development• Implementation & Execution of New Product, Menu, System & Processes• Profits• Audits & Risk ManagementAt Darden Restaurant I learned the basic fundamentals on how to acquire more market share with enriched profits, empower team on how to successfully run a full-service restaurant by having an in synced synergy between the front & the back of the house to deliver the best quality & service to our customers.

As many American teenagers, I also started my career in a fast food, starting from the kitchen flipping burgers to soon transitioning in becoming the Manager of the same location, then advancing to leadership role, as I got promoted to a District Manager at very early age (Youngest District Manager of the Company). Leading as the District Manager I was responsible of:• Team Development• Sales & Operation• Quality Control & HACCP Implementation• P&L Management• Audits & Risk ManagementJack in the Box set a strong foundation in me to have a better understanding on how to operate a business successfully with repeat customers, empowered & satisfied Team, ensuring quality control, minimize risk and increase sales with profits. I was honored to be a big part of Jack in the Box’s incredible journey as the first Restaurant Chain in United States to launch HACCP practices and certification requirement.