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Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Provide Operational and Financial due diligence support for high potential investment opportunities.

Belton, Missouri, Us

Kuecker Pulse Integration is a Private Equity backed systems integration company that partners to provide innovative solutions and expertise that enable our client's quest to achieve higher performance.

Led the financial due diligence process for a Private Equity majority investment that combined three entities to form an industry leading Systems Integration company, Kuecker Pulse Integration LP.

New York, New York, Us

Fabric is a technology company that has developed a logistics platform that utilizes software and robotics to enable on-demand fulfillment via micro-fulfillment centers. Unlike any other micro-fulfillment solution, Fabric's unique purpose-built proprietary solution enables cloud-like elasticity for retailers, providing them with the flexibility to build a custom solution that best fits their needs.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for all fulfillment and distribution activities involved with getting finished goods from the point of manufacture all the way to the end customer. S'well bottles are beautifully crafted and composed of non-leaching and non-toxic 18/8 stainless steel, that keeps your drinks cold for 24 hours and hot for 12 hours. S'well also gives back to those in need and is a charitable community member. S'well bottles are currently sold in the United States and in 64 other countries around the world.

Austin, Texas, Us

Advise and participate with the management team in the due diligence of investment opportunities to transform early and middle-market companies into efficient and diversified businesses with superior growth profiles.

Mountain View, California, Us

Operations and Finance focused consultant for a consumer focused medical device start-up company. Willow is a platform for products that help improve the lives and health of women. The Willow Wearable Breast Pump is the first solution in the platform and it is a complete re-imaging of the breast pump.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Head of operations and finance for the leading supplier of organic candy in the US. Responsible for the redesign of the supply chain operations and the management of out-sourced manufacturing and re-packing operations at locations in Mexico, France and the United States. Developed a metric focused supply chain with customer centric priorities. Enabled a Sales and Operations Planning process to deliver high customer service levels, improvements in inventory utilization and decreased supply chain costs.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for developing effective supply chain relationships with top customers for a $5B sales company across the Mass Merchant, Specialty Retail, Club, and Grocery channels. Driving the org to develop productive partnerships with customers that allowed for fulfillment and distribution operations focused on speed, efficiency and effectiveness. Customer Care Leadership:Transformed a Customer Care organization from a transaction focused order processing group into a team enabled to drive increased levels of service to our customers.Developed new metric reporting that provided weekly fill rate and on time shipment service data by account that drove overall service level improvements.Developed customer fulfillment efficiency reporting metrics that resulted in both improved collaboration with customers and significant fulfillment and freight savings.Key account supply chain relationship development:Partnered with customers to implement mutually beneficial supply chain productivity initiatives. Results included: 1. Large regional grocer - decreased freight costs by 65% and cut order to deliver lead time by 50%. 2. Largest Mass Merchant - doubled freight utilization from 45% to 90%, improved fulfillment efficiency by 40%, developed order system setting recommendations that improved on shelf fill rates while lowering inventory levels. 3. Large Merchandise Club - decreased order processing volumes to achieve a 60% decrease in receiving activity and improved delivery transit times by an average of 3 days.Led a change in order fulfillment processing for large mass merchant customers that decreased fulfillment labor requirements by 75% and resulted in the capability to ship orders within 24 hours of order receipt. Saved over $4M in fulfillment expense.Successfully implemented the Company's first VMI program. Results included 90+% freight utilization, best in class fulfillment efficiency and highly coordinated order placement to order delivery activities.

Waterbury, Vermont, Us

Logistics Activities:Planned and Executed the integration of the logistics and fulfillment operations of multiple business units into one enterprise organization with annual revenue of $4.5 billion.Provided daily on-site leadership during the startup expansion of the company's largest (900K sqft) 3PL managed DC. Effort involved integration of multiple Warehouse Management Systems shipping product into 5 different sales channels.Transitioned the highest volume 3PL relationship from a per unit fee structure to a cost plus fee structure, which resulted in higher levels of collaboration and overall cost decreases of 20%.Led a transformation of the E-Commerce fulfillment operation that was recognized nationally for best in class fulfillment speed.Assisted with the implementation and management of the outsourcing of all transportation management activities, which achieved improved transportation service levels while saving over $12 million annually.Led the off-cycle renegotiation of a parcel shipping contract that resulted in annual savings of $15 million.Real Estate Services activities:Responsible for managing non-manufacturing site real estate requirements, representing over 15 locations across the US. Successfully opened a new 150,000 square foot R&D Innovation center and a new 275,000 square foot headquarters office tower on schedule and on budget. Facilities included world class design labs, state of the art conferencing capabilities, extensive collaboration space, a professionally managed full service cafeteria and an extensive fitness center. Facility was awarded "Best New Suburban Office" award. Successfully leased, designed and built out the Company's new Switzerland based coffee buying location. Also opened new office locations in Cincinnati, Bentonville, Seattle, Minneapolis, Los Angeles and New York.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Chief Finance Officer for a division of a NASDAQ traded consumer packaged goods company. During my tenure revenue grew from $135 million to $1.7 billion. Specific accomplishments include:Financial Planning and Analysis functions:Responsible for the development of the Division's Annual Operating Plan.Successfully executed annual plans that included YOY revenue growth of up to 75%.Built and led a talented FP&A team.Contract Manufacturing Planning functions:Managed the overseas contract manufacturer supply planning and financial relationship.Responsible for the production planning of all overseas contract manufacturing.Successfully managed all overseas manufacturing requirements during periods of extreme growth with minimal out of stocks.Effectively managed working capital requirements through detailed inventory optimization and manufacturing capacity planning.Negotiated on-going cost savings that provided significant economies of scale savings.Logistics and Distribution functions:Had primary oversight and relationship development responsibilities for two 3PL providers who provided exceptional support during periods of extremely high growth.Effectively managed the expansion of our 3PL distribution footprint from 2 buildings and 500,000 sqft to 8 buildings and over 4 million sqft.Achieved more efficient distribution strategies through geographic building selection that improved speed to customer and decreased freight expenses.Continually negotiated cost savings for increased economies of scale including one instance of $30 million of annual savings.Facilities management functions:Managed all real estate transactions during a period of significant personnel and facilities requirements growth.Expanded the company's total square footage from 35,000 sqft under lease to almost 500,000 sqft under lease over a 5 year period.Built a team of professionals that designed, built and furnished best in class office and lab space workplace environments.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Colonel, US Army (Retired) - 28 years of combined active and reserve service. Significant active duty military assignments included:* Blackhawk helicopter pilot* Helicopter Company commander* Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance at the United States Military Academy

Boxborough, Ma, Us

Provide daily leadership to the Field Operations team and manage the order management and product forecasting process. Responsible for the following: * annual budget development for all Field Operation departments* customer order revenue recognition compliance* providing deal pricing and margin analysis guidance* development and administration of the sales compensation plan* forecasting product demand and integration of this data with the manufacturing* review detailed standard cost analysis

Waltham, Ma, Us

CFO of a venture backed software as a service (SAAS) start-up that provided travel management software to the group travel industry. Raised 3 rounds of venture financing and 2 debt facilities. Enabled the company to achieve long-term profitability.

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Manager in the Transaction Services Group, providing Operational and Financial due diligence services related to our clients M&A transactions. Earned CPA designation.

Bs, Economics And Computer Science

Masters, Supply Chain Management

Mba, Economics And Finance