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New York, Ny, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

South Orange, New Jersey, Us

New York, Ny , Us

• Collaborate with the CEO to lead a strategic plan to create and build the leading AI and technology platform for what is now 30,000 recruiters, the world’s largest recruiter network. • Build public market cap and enterprise value by educating the management team on internal drivers, metrics, and business models• Encouraged a discipline of focusing on higher-tech, recurring revenue businesses. Focused M&A on tech (AI) oriented firms. Repackaged part of the revenue and services as subscriptions.• Drove the successful process to list on Nasdaq, designing strategies to meet all financial, legal, and regulatory requirements• Participated in all aspects of six acquisitions. Vet targets, perform valuation analysis, deal structuring, legal documentation, and post-deal business integration.• Helped raise $12M in capital to fund future growth and meet Nasdaq listing requirements• Oversee corporate governance, SEC filings, quarterly shareholder communication while assisting with investor relations and communications with board members• Restructured accounting team to support all financial operations, cash management and internal controls• Lead financial planning & analysis to develop the prototype for a bottom-up, company-wide, three-year financial model. Maintain a detailed cap table with multiple classes of equity, debt, and derivatives.• Introduced the company to a VC partner, establishing a relationship to promote the company and its services to fast-growing portfolio companies. Attracted new business by introducing the company to several HR directors, providing them access to hard-to-find recruiters.

• Advising on a successful strategic plan to drive change, build profitability, capital, and asset growth• Recommended the company find a merger partner to create the most value. Vetted bankers and attracted multiple suitors. Signed a merger letter of intent.• Rallied to reducing the bank’s cost structure while maintaining growth and protecting the capital base• Employ realistic budgeting goals and helped maintain compliance with FDIC metrics• Craft communications in press releases and quarterly filings to accurately convey the company’s financial condition and prospects. Improve investor relations through effective messaging.• Leverage prior board experience, providing expertise on the audit, nominating, and the newly formed M&A committee• Achieved faster turnaround for audits and received high quality consulting advice by upgrading the firm’s independent accounting firm

New York, New York, Us

• Develop business for this venture stage app disrupting how consumers and businesses embrace charitable giving • Generate leads for business partnerships to drive adoption. Introduced the company to several direct-to-consumer businesses. One of them established a partnership and saw a 150% increase in campaign results.• Helped the company raise venture capital• Advise on the development of KPI’s, the financial business model, and capital raising

Austin, Tx, Us

• Collaborated on and executed the development of an action plan which shed noncore competencies and delevered the balance sheet, allowing focus on growth in critical, higher-value areas• Sold the legacy print management business to its main competitor, eliminating all debt and freeing growth capital to invest.• Refocused the company to position it as a pure-play in healthcare cybersecurity to enhance enterprise value and clarify M&A objectives• Strengthened company management as a member of the CEO search committee. Coached and advised the new CEO on messaging and positioning the company in the public markets. Cultivated and educated prospective investors.• Member of the audit, governance, and nominating committees

New York, Us

• Led growth initiatives for this innovative digital media and enterprise software security company to broaden revenue and profitability through partnerships and M&A• Identified a potential acquirer and several prospective merger partners

New York, Us

• Led teams in accounting, operations, financial reporting, forecasting, regulatory requirements, and human resources• Partnered with the CEO, CTO, CMO, and board members to develop strategies for capital allocation, internal growth, and M&A• Oversaw integration and cost rightsizing post the merger of PeerStream (formerly Snap Interactive) with Paltalk. Tripled the company’s revenues through the business combination and new product launches.• Initiated value creation opportunities through innovative ideas to repurpose company video technology while broadening the addressable market. Identified a unique use case to use blockchain to deliver secure online video, attracting $1.5M in direct investments and enabling the launch of a new division. This new product generated sales of $5M over two years.• Spearheaded investor relations and represented the company collaboratively at all investor conferences

• Developed a game-plan to preserve and raise cash and achieve profitability• Found a strategic reverse merger partner to increase scale, access better technology, and improve profitability, buying a business almost twice the company’s size• Enhanced messaging and relationships with existing and prospective investors in collaboration with an external investor relations firm• Valued member of all Nasdaq-required committees for corporate governance and compliance

• Managed a portfolio of small-cap public securities. Led security selection process, including deep fundamental analysis, portfolio construction, and thorough management and valuation assessment, achieving annualized double-digit returns.• Maintained strong, collaborative relationships with the C-suite of current and prospective company investments, consulting on growth, capital allocation, and investor relations direction and outreach• Grew AUM from $25M to $150M, assisting in fund marketing to potential investors, including fund of funds, consultants, and high net worth individuals• Leveraged findings from research and market analysis targeting individual public companies to create SPV partnerships, including Arctic Cat. In that situation, established a position as one of its largest institutional investors and enjoyed a buyout at a 2x premium in one year.

Purchase, New York, Us

• Managed institutional accounts and sleeves of small-cap hedge funds for this research-driven asset manager with $6B in AUM• Served as an invaluable resource for investment ideas and recommendations for firm-managed mutual funds, notably instilling a greater sell discipline. Envisioned, developed, and deployed short-term trading and derivative strategies that supplemented returns.

New York, Ny, Us

• Responsible for a long/short-small-cap portfolio for this multi-strategy investment firm with $1B in invested capital• Long-term track record of double-digit returns. Founded and managed a long/short-small-cap hedge fund.

B.S., Finance

Mba, Finance, Accounting