Michael Schaul Email & Phone Number

North Texas Ranch

Somerset, New Jersey

As the Chief Financial Officer, I am responsible for developing solid internal financial processes, procedures and systems to ensure the financial stability of our company. Given my entrepreneurial background I am also responsible for sales & marketing, e-commerce and supporting operations wherever required.

Frisco, Texas

First, I help business owners who don’t know what to do in a particular area of his or her business. We call this “Business Effectiveness.” All areas of Business Effectiveness fall into the broader categories of Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Human Resources, Leadership Development, Systems Implementation, Strategic Planning, Financial Management, and Exit Planning / Succession Planning.I work with successful people who are “stuck” in certain areas of their business. These areas can be related to weak profits, sluggish sales, cash flow challenges, people problems, or working too many hours, which can result in an unhealthy work-life balance. Other common challenges include quality issues, service failures, and lack of leadership depth.Some of these problems make a business owner feel paralyzed. They are filled with stress, grief, concern, anger, frustration, and doubt. These negative emotions compound the challenges business owners face and can create new problems of their own; some at work, others at home.A professional business coach helps get the client out of the proverbial trees so the owner can work strategically on business development and systematically solve these problems. This results in higher profits, better cash flow, and a happier workplace, which in turn leads to a healthy, productive, and joyful life.The second distinct area where I come in is when the client knows what he or she should be doing, but isn't doing it - or – when the client is knowingly doing something he or she should not be doing but continues to do it anyway. This is what we call “Personal Effectiveness.”Personal effectiveness starts with knowing yourself and knowing your own personal vision and goals. Then it moves to how you interact with other people of all personalities and behavioral types. Ultimately, personal effectiveness is about behavior that is congruent with values. It is about being physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually healthy.

Frisco, Texas

Acquired the Dallas / Fort Worth franchise rights to USA Baby, America’s leading specialty retailer of infant and children’s furniture.• Negotiated bank loans, leases and built-out three large, very successful retail stores which achieved sales of over $8 million in just three and a half years.• Developed a one-of-a-kind Retail Store Concept to sell juvenile furniture and accessories; currently recognized as one of the Top 20 Baby Stores in the United States.• After a successful 18 month legal battle with the franchisor in 2007, effectively re-branded three USA Baby stores to Lone Star Baby & Kids. Prior to re-branding, was USA Baby’s largest gross sales franchisee.

Frisco, Texas

Hired as an internal consultant for a leading manufacturer of baby cribs and juvenile furniture in the United States.• Re-engineered the billing, shipping and invoicing processes which improved cycle times and eliminated charge-backs resulting in more than $850,000 annual savings.• Restructured the accounting system to capture and report profitability by business unit / department, thereby improving management’s strategic decision making.• Managed the development of a web-portal for retailers and sales reps to view and place purchase orders on-line streamlining the process and providing real-time inventory information to retail stores which increased sales by 8%.

Racine, Wisconsin

Purchased out of bankruptcy this import wholesaler of men’s apparel and accessories. • Recruited a completely new outside sales force and management team to lead the company forward. • Doubled the product offerings to retail customers over the four-year period which grew sales by more than 20% annually.• Restructured the company’s international vendor supply chain by finding new vendors, re-negotiating product pricing and contract terms which improved the product quality, shortened delivery lead times and increased gross margins by 6%.

Chicago, Illinois

Lead a number of consulting engagements with large Fortune 500 Corporations, including a major automobile parts supplier, a wholesale food distributor, a refiner and marketer of petroleum products and a worldly renowned Cancer Care Center. • Realized savings of several million dollars annually by producing efficiencies that eliminated non-value added work through dramatic restructuring around their key business processes.

Chicago, Illinois

Assigned to the Chairman’s Office as the Corporate Controller’s representative to participate with a team of company-wide senior managers in the restructuring of the corporate and operating company support departments. • Developed the strategy to align support department services at the corporate, operating company and business unit level. • Launched the birth of Amoco Shared Services, a value-added service organization which eliminated costs approaching $750 million annually taking advantage of economies of scale and critical mass.

Chicago, Illinois

Assigned as the Corporate Controller’s representative charged with re-engineering the Management Control System consisting of the planning, budgeting and reporting processes throughout the corporation.• Improved the linkage between strategic plans, annual budgets and management reporting which enhanced the accountability, improved the strategic focus of senior management and reduced the cycle time by 50% for the annual budgeting process.

Chicago, Illinois

Managed a team of multi-talented MBAs who prepared and made monthly financial presentations to Amoco Corporation’s Management Committee. • Revamped and streamlined the corporate support department budgeting process ($740 million).

Various International Locations

Over nine consecutive years, managed the Financial Organizations of four overseas Amoco subsidiaries, which included organizations in Gabon West Africa (11/81-10/84), Congo West Africa (10/84-3/86), Norway (3/86-3/88) and The People’s Republic of China (3/88-12/90). Responsibilities included Accounting, Tax, Treasury and Payroll functions. At age 23, became the youngest individual to be assigned an International Controller’s position overseas. • Automated numerous accounting functions and re-designed several accounting processes with the advent of the personal computer thereby eliminating non-value added work and improving cycle times.

Chicago, Illinois

Managed the accounting records of several small international subsidiaries.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Executive Program

Bachelors, Business, Accounting