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Dagmar Associates draws upon the more than 30 years of International Business Experience of its Principal Owner and her network of experienced professionals in Finance, Operations, Accounting, Security, Sales and Marketing to provide transformational management and business development services. Special areas of expertise includes helping women small business owners scale their companies to the next level.

Helped company prepare for partial exit to private investors. Transaction was successfully completed in December 2023.

Developed and launched fintech company to help women improve their financial security.

Richmont Transportation Services Hertz Russia owned and operated the Hertz Rental and Leasing Master Franchise for Russia. The company was based in Moscow, Russia and had offices in 12 cities in Russia including St. Petersburg, Sochi, Samara, Togliatti, Kazan, Ufa, Rostov, Krasnodar, Kaliningrad, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk and Ekaterinburg. Julie created the business plan and market entry strategy for the purchase and start up of the Hertz Russia Master Franchise for Richmont Capital Partners in 1996, secured funding and successfully executed the go to market strategy. She served as CEO for the Hertz Russia Master Franchise in Moscow, Russia. After buying a majority stake in the company, she became Majority Owner and Chairman in 2002. She was responsible for the strategic direction of the company, corporate finance, raising and administering increases in the charter capital of the company, managing operating cash flow and dividend payments, managing partner and investor relations, developing and directing the operational team in Russia, interfacing with Hertz Corporate Franchise management in Europe and the US and personally negotiating the master franchise terms and agreement for the Master Franchise for Russia. The company was closed in 2017 due to increasing Western sanctions against Russia and the continuing devaluation of the ruble.

After the 1998 financial and economic collapse in Russia, which saw devaluation of the ruble due to a massive government bonds default, Julie was promoted to President, Mary Kay Europe and had line responsibility for Western Europe as well as the CIS. She restructured the Russian, Kazakh, Ukraine, German, UK and regional operations including Spain, Portugal and the Czech Republic to rationalize the expense base and bring the region to profitability.

As President of Mary Kay Inc's CIS Strategic Business Unit, Julie increased sales by 50% and restructured country operations to create a stable basis for future growth. She initiated and drove all aspects of business development strategy including establishing regional Branch Operations in St. Petersburg, cross-border recruiting and market development throughout the CIS and the start up of a Ukraine subsidiary, the first Mary Kay international subsidiary ever opened by another international start-up operation. She achieved the highest EBITDA of any Mary Kay international subsidiary at that time. She designed and launched market specific career apparel, cosmetics bags and accessories to support new product launches in Russia and motivate the sales force of thousands of independent contractors throughout the former Soviet Union and acted as the key inspirational leader and motivator for the independent salesforce at regular sales meetings, annual Russia sales seminars and global sales events.

As President of Mary Kay Russia Julie increased sales 13 times over prior year. She set a record for global operational profitability and led Mary Kay Russia to become the largest international operating subsidiary in Mary Kay in its 3rd year of operations. She expanded the business from a base in Moscow to all of Russia’s regions and former Republics. With Richmont Capital Partners, she also started up the Russia Hertz Franchise to provide cars to the Mary Kay salesforce.

As General Manager of Mary Kay Russia Julie started up company operations in Russia for Mary Kay Inc. and Mary Kay's corporate private security company which provided executive security and commercial security for all related operating companies in Russia and the CIS. She was responsible for the general management and creation of all aspects of Russian company operations including P&L; market entry strategy; recruiting and training staff; recruiting, training and motivating a sales force of independent contractors; and business growth and development. She personally recruited and trained the initial salesforce of 60 women and grew the company from zero revenue in 1993 to $5 M in annual revenue and $1.5 M in earnings (EBITDA) in its 1st full year of sales operations with over 5,000 independent sales representatives

Julie advised Fortune 50 companies on joint venture businesses in Russia under Gorbachev's new law allowing 49% foreign ownership of limited joint stock companies in Russia. Clients included Kodak, RJR Nabisco, Johnson and Johnson, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and Chevron. Julie accompanied operating teams to Russia and acted as their business coordinator, interpreter and translator. She reviewed Russian manufacturing facilities in Siberia and the Moscow Region as well as client manufacturing facilities in the US including soy bean processing plants, consumer edibles, hog processing, agricultural commodity processing and experimental livestock facilities. She also reviewed business plans for reasonableness and fit into the joint Aggregate Cash Sources and Uses plan which allowed for hard currency revenues generated from Chevron's Caspian sea drilling project to be set aside to convert rubles from consumer goods manufacturing projects inside of Russia. This mechanism was designed to allow US companies to repatriate Russian ruble profits at a time when the ruble was inconvertible into freely tradable hard currencies.