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LAS Capital LLC is a startup venture capital company focused on investing in the future of sustainable mobility.

Farmington Hills, Michigan, Us

Sharonville, Oh, Us

Workhorse is a U.S.-based Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) developer of medium-duty, battery-electric delivery vehicles and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) delivery drones that are fully integrated with Workhorse electric vehicles. The company recently went from development stage to production and commercialization of the new technology to large fleets in the US.My responsibilities include setting objectives and strategies for the IT department, selecting and implementing new systems and tools with the goal of streamlining internal operations, evaluating the design and customization of all systems and platforms with the goal to improve customer experience. I am also in charge of technology infrastructure (networks computer systems) to ensure optimal performance and responsible for providing guidance to the staff within the organization, approving purchases of technological equipment and software and establishing partnerships with IT providers. Key accomplishments:• Implementation on time and under budget or the new ERP system making the financial statement reporting timely and accurate for SEC and external reporting.• Implementation of manufacturing module to manage plant production planning and tracking of products.• Redesigned the IT infrastructure to make it more efficient and responsive while reducing maintenance costs achieving optimal performance.

Sharonville, Oh, Us

Led all financial areas including: timely preparation of all SEC reports, investor relations, interactions with financial institutions, supervised monthly P&L actual/forecast/budget analysis, business strategy development, participated in key decisions regarding strategic planning and operational execution, led financial policy development, prepared financial plans and projections, oversaw cash flow planning and investment strategies, maintained relationships with banks. Report to the CEO. Key accomplishments:• Instrumental in moving the company from OTC markets to NASDAQ.• Successfully coordinated multiple capital raises to finance production and go to market.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

International Automotive, Industrial and Office Products Company with $13 billion in annual salesOrganized, coordinated, executed control process improvement and cost savings projects for all company divisions. Key responsibilities included: - Lead Global Business Intelligence Reporting implementation, selected Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), designed and implemented standard reports, replacing 20K plus legacy reports, standardizing reporting across the enterprise by using dashboards and drill down capabilities. - Created a central database of Process Improvement Projects giving visibility and accountability to project management. - Selected best-in-class methodologies like BPM (Business Process Management) to organize and standardize the process research and documentation. – Lead several process improvement projects including: Automotive Catalog centralization, MDM, Simplification of intercompany AP processes, automation and publishing of expense databases (fuel cards, asset purchases, etc.)

Led the company turnaround projects and worked on sale of the division together with the corporate M&A team. Key tasks included: - Responsible for all financial aspects the company including month end close, Financial Statement preparation, Cash flow management, budgets and forecasts, reporting and analysis for the subsidiary President and Headquarters. - Improved month end close procedures and account reconciliations, cleaned-up and adjusted un-reconciled accounts. Simplified system set-up reducing non-value-added back-office activities. - M&A: prepared and presented standard financial information package for potential buyers. Organized due diligence on a virtual data room. Managed timely responses to ROI’s from potential buyers and banks. Provided buyers information for purchase accounting helping with purchase price adjustments after sale.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Responsible for the execution of the Sarbanes Oxley Project for the entire corporation. Consulted and agreed with external auditors on the scope of documentation and testing. Applied COSO and Cobit framework to document key internal controls. Executed and documented internal testing to identify and correct deficiencies before the external auditor’s review. Supervised multiple teams (internal and external) that executed the documentation and testing simultaneously across all business units. Created an internally developed document repository resulting in significant savings. Obtained clean opinion from external auditors and created the infrastructure for future year compliance testing. Internal control documentation identified opportunities that have brought important savings to the corporation.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Supervised financial aspects of company operations on subsidiaries in Mexico and Canada.Canadian Subsidiaries: Analyzed, identified and established new policies and procedures in the Canadian operations resulting in important administrative expense savings in the Montreal headquarter offices.Mexican Subsidiaries: Directed and coordinated a number of projects with the objective of turning around the business. Projects were concentrated on increasing profitable sales and reducing cost through process improvement. Projects included: - Pricing: worked on automated solution to standardize and improve margins, bringing rules and logic around the value proposition to end customers. - Analysis, design, documentation and implementation of new policies and procedures for distribution centers, stores and headquarters by simplifying, standardizing and automating procedures at the operations level resulting in significant reductions in personnel with improved service to the customers (internal and external).

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Mexican Subsidiary Turn-around Project:Directed and coordinated a number of projects in GPC’s Mexican wholly owned subsidiary (AutoTodo) with the objective of turning around the business. Projects were concentrated on increasing profitable sales and reducing cost through process improvement. The operation was successfully turned around and went from average losses to profitability and improving.

Northville, Michigan, Us

Division commercializes and distributes replacement auto parts for Latin America, Asia and the Middle East as well as the Eastern European Countries. Responsible for: - The preparation and analysis of the strategic, marketing and business plans. - Supervised the preparation of the consolidated financial statements. - Prepared variance analysis vs. plan, forecast and prior years as well as by product and regions. - Supervised the divestiture of retail business in Latin America. Audited and followed-up all the restructuring charges, inventory and accounts receivable valuation and fixed assets valuation. - Reviewed contracts with purchasers of divested assets and negotiated termination of lease agreements. Analyzed and reported financial results of the divestiture to Senior Management. - Participated in the integration of the newly acquired business. Designed new reports to analyze the financial results including pro-forma data. - Played a key role in due diligence for the acquisition of new $300 million businesses in Brazil. - Coordinated the activities necessary to merge two warehouses in Hong Kong, resulting in significant reduction of operating expenses, improving service to customers on the market.

Étoy, Vaud, Ch

International Fruit and Processed Foods Company with $ 3.1 billion annual salesDivision produces and sells processed fruits for industrial applications (juice, yogurt, ice cream, baby food, bakery and others) with two processing plants located in Central America (Honduras, and Costa Rica) and markets in Europe, Middle East, North and South America, Japan and Far East. Responsible for planning and supervising the implementation of new systems including: on line sales statistics and inventory control system for the commercial area, new standard GL package and standardized ABC cost systems for the plants. Supervised preparation of the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Division. Projects included: - Reduced repetition of redundant data through the implementation of new systems and the integration of existing databases resulting in significant cost savings. - Implemented a just in time inventory control system to improve product turnover and to reduce inventory levels resulting in large cash flow savings and reduction of inventory write offs. - Coordinated the supply of finished goods to the markets from owned plants and external suppliers. - Performed global purchases of key packaging, raw materials and land and ocean transportation reducing prices through negotiation and finding alternative suppliers. - Organized and supervised transfer of the accounting functions from the European market to the central office in Cincinnati achieving significant cost savings and improvements in the financial information. - Directed the documentation of procedures at the plants and the markets resulting in the simplification of the procedures in the Division.

Étoy, Vaud, Ch

Audited expansion projects in four countries, (Costa Rica, Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras). Reviewed budget preparation, actual vs. budget reporting, total cost forecast, policies and procedures, contracts administration and project activities control. Reported findings to Senior Executive Vice President of Operations. Performed financial and operational audits of large new and existing banana and food processing Divisions.

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Subsidiary of the East Asiatic Company, LTD A/S (Denmark)International Food Processing Company – Global sales $1billionSupervised accounting operations and consolidation of group companies. Reviewed monthly reporting of actual vs. budget variances for parent company. Reviewed tax return preparation. Supervised preparation of the 3-year strategic plan, annual budget report and quarterly reviews. Analyzed budget variances. Supervised credit days of major clients. Organized and implemented credit evaluation system for depots.

Audit Manager 85 88Staff Assistant, Senior Accountant 80 85Planned & Supervised Financial Statement Audits of both private and public companies. Industries included: manufacturing, distribution, financial services, mostly subsidiaries of Fortune 500 referred clients.

Purchase, New York, Us

Financial Manager Assistant 79 80 Controller Assistant 78 79

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Education record

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Accounting And Finance

High School, Science