Jim Walsh Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Greater San Diego Area

Regional Executive working with seasoned CEOs and business entrepreneurs for Vistage Worldwide. In my current role I partner with over 62 Chairs that presently have over 130 Advisory Boards created in the Southeast. A Chair has a commanding presence, excellent communication skills, an entrepreneurial spirit, and is looking for a meaningful opportunity. If you, or someone you know, would be interest in becoming a leader of leaders as a Vistage Chair, please email me, Jim.walsh@vistage.com

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

•Oversee all Visions vendor relations, manufacturing operations and quality control at 3 vendor owned facilities throughout China and two company owned facilities in the Philippines.•Ensure all employee safety, environmental safety and manufacturing compliance standards are met in all overseas operations of company owned and vendor owned facilities. (ISO 9000 / ISO 14001) •Identified manufacturing, Inventory and material usage improvements that has a sustained $40,000.dollar in monthly saving to cost performance.•Formed new vendor relations in India for the manufacturing of Recognition Art specific to the Golf industry. Reducing our overall cost expenditures in this category while creating new sales channels.•Work with Vendors, Freight forwarders and India Customs for sustainable improvements in shipping performance and compliance standards.•Created new business opportunities by partnering with established distributors in the Dubai market that will enable safe sales expansion to the Middle East, Africa, Australia and Europe for FY 2015.•Currently working on the re -tooling of the Signage and Trophy divisions to create a greater presence in the market and improve overall sales and cost performance.

Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp. D.B.A. Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes

• Budgetary responsibilities for a P&L of sales in excess $305 million and 36.5 EBITDA• Worked directly for the President and CEO• Collaborated with Senior Department Heads in creation of Strategic Sales Initiatives• Designed national rollouts that maximized effectiveness and increased profitability• Created strategic sales behavior / Guest-focused audits which increased sales and profits

• Budgetary responsibilities for a P&L of sales in excess of $150 million• Managed 6-10 Regional Directors, each supervising 8-16 General Managers. Responsible for the overall results of over 62 restaurants spanning 12 states• Member of key executive group which developed long-range goals and objectives in alignment with the strategic plans of the company• Demonstrated leadership and provided coaching in the areas of guest satisfaction, sales building, and store marketing programs• Responsible for staffing, training, development, retention, and direction of all management staff as well as the combined restaurants staffs in excess of 2,800 employees• Assured compliance with standards in the areas of legal, safety, and corporate policy adherence

Greater San Diego Area

• Responsible for operating a 10 restaurant district• Implemented, through the General Manager, all operations objectives, plans and focus, achieved superior results in all aspects• Performed audits to insure units adhere correctly to all policies• Responsible for maintaining positive moral and high retention of staff