Senior Executive, Business Leader and Advisor with proven success in creating long-term strategic vision, sustainable growth, and shareholder value in publicly traded and privately held companies. Defines business direction, provides transformational leadership, and guides organizations through complex change and challenging markets. Extremely effective in working with executive leadership teams and boards of directors through the demands of creating substantial and sustainable revenue and profit growth in startup, turnaround, and expansion environments. Innate ability to quickly size up operations, see future trends, and put the people, processes, and systems in place to achieve objectives.Extensive work in mergers & acquisitions, governance, investor relations, strategic planning, valuation, transactions, deal structuring, financing, operations finance management, regulatory issues, investor relations, product development and management, sales and key account relationships. Offers strong finance strategy and expertise, as well as operations thought leadership and experience directing across functional areas. Distills large amounts of complex information to key salient points and brings clarity to the decision-making process. Collegial and approachable manager who leads with energy, authenticity and integrity, provides clear direction, and navigates comfortably at all levels of the organization.Core Business Competencies: P&L / Operations Management, Strategic Planning / Tactical Execution, Capital Structure Strategy & Management, SEC Regulatory / SOX Compliance, Investor / Key Account / Board Relations, Capital Markets & Equity Financing, Product Development / Management, Merger & Acquisition / Integration, Investment Portfolio Management, Transaction Structuring & Negotiations, Treasury & Cash Management, Strategic Alliances / Joint Ventures