Mark Taylor Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tn, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Primary Responsibilities• Financial leadership and development for Private Equity backed acquisition and organic growth platform and business partner to the CEO and Board of Managers• Operational leadership for manufacturing, cost management and margin improvement as well as pricing across multiple channels in a branded consumer products business• Establish high quality processes and systems and develop functional platforms to create plug-and-play integration capability for future acquisitions• Strategic and tactical planning across the portfolio of brands with leadership team including establishment of strategic priorities at group and brand level• Develop foundational process for credit management, pricing analytics, customer profitability analysis and sales and operational reporting/cost accounting• Cash flow management in a highly leveraged environment with focus on cash-to-cash cycle efficiency and funding working capital needs of high growth brands• Implement annual budget process for group as well as quarterly forecasting of full-year results• Create improvements in financial organization, personnel, processes, and systems, developing achievable plans and successfully and swiftly executing on those plans• Support Private Equity team in M&A targeting and analysis and lead post-acquisition integration• Hands-on with financial management reporting to ensure discipline to deadlines and processKey Accomplishments• Integration of four acquisitions in a double digit organic growth environment• ERP implementation in highly configurable consumer product manufacturing facility, extend ERP system functionality including implementation for two subsidiaries, implementation of MRP as basis for Sales & Operational Planning and standard cost for margin management

Responsible for the financial & operational effectiveness of the Americas organization across the Amer Sports Portfolio of brands. As a key member of the Americas Leadership Team I have responsibility for the development and implementation of strategy and improvement programs with a particular focus on achieving profitable growth and optimizing the operational performance.• Financial and business planning, steering and monitoring performance, optimizing operating capital • Design, develop and implement programs that support the vision and strategy of the region. Gain stakeholder buy in and commitment through strong change management.• Establish Americas Operations strategy in line with global Operations strategy including development of initiatives to enable the delivery of the region strategy plan• Champion initiatives to meaningfully improve the quality of service to customers• Identification, mitigation & reporting of business risks in the region• Building strong cross function and cross country working relationships, partnering with the Americas Management and global Finance & Operations Network to convert business initiatives into aligned action & results.

Helsinki, Fi

• Design and execute group Information Technology strategy that supports strategic objectives and provides reliable and efficient technology solutions• Work as a consultative and collaborative member of Global Operations across the Amer matrix organization to exchange information, develop solutions to problems, present new approaches, and to guide decision making on solutions• Direct the long-term continuous improvement of the information systems and technology functions, ensure that staff, equipment and procedures maintain pace with emerging technologies and trends, resource allocation changes, and organizational needs• Responsibility for budget and capital expenditures of approximately €25 million, identify opportunities for operating expense efficiency in order to reduce total spend as a percentage of net sales, guide & influence other IT related spending decisions in the matrix organization• Lead and communicate effectively & credibly from C-level to IT-experts in an international setting

• Americas Regional Finance, Accounting, Credit and US Customer Service, Supply Chain and IT• Establish financial objectives and policies for the region including effective management of balance sheet, driving improvement in financial performance and risk management• Guide and define short-term and long-term financial goals linked with strategic business plans• Oversee and direct local supply chain processes and influence global organization to improve service performance including on-time and in-full delivery• Work closely with the sales and marketing teams in on-going process development to support strategic plans • Oversee and direct Customer Service organization to ensure an exceptional customer experience through the entire order to cash cycle• Direct regional Credit function including defining and ensuring implementation of policies/ procedures to balance business and working capital, mitigate risk and effective collection

Woodinville, Wa, Us

• Cost, revenue and general accounting, budgeting, oversight of domestic and foreign subsidiaries• Analysis for segmentation of operations by business unit, product line profitability, Mfg O/H• Preparation and presentation of monthly Corporate Governance meetings with all Senior Mgmt• Led financial integration of acquired company including ERP system implementation• Finance lead in new product development process for Commercial and Consumer Products

Responsible for cost accounting, intercompany, month-end closing, inventory valuations, etc. Supported early stages of merger with Vitalcom. Both companies were subsequently acquired by GE Medical and moved to Wisconsin.

Us

Rivals is a sports network specializing in collegiate athletics and recruiting. I came on board to complete the due diligence audit work prior to our S-1 Filing to go public. I was involved in many aspects of the business. This was essentially a start-up company that grew rapidly required systems, policies and procedures to be developed on the fly to maintain and stabilize the business.

Everett, Washington, Us