Michael Kao Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Promotional markets focused leader, wholesaler, manufacturer, and importer • Head and co-founder of sunglass division with clientele and/or end users ranging from small business to Fortune 500 companies• Well versed in numerous North American and Asian supply chain and distribution markets

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Helping clients reach their goals faster and more sustainably in all areas of health (physical, mental, and financial)• Lead coach having helped clients lose over 3,000 pounds combined• Successfully improved hundreds of lives (clients include CEO's, FBI agents, surgeons, military veterans, principals, college professors, and multiple 8 figure investors)• Business partner helping several successful clients build their own growing coaching practices• Seasoned motivational speaker and leader

Houston, Texas Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Drove project management efforts, strategized process flow and communications, and guided 20 senior manager and manager client resources through evaluation of client’s entire suite of learning curriculum • Managed day-to-day project efforts, served as communications and logistics lead, and steered high level resources including 60 client Chief Learning Officers for executive learning forum focusing on knowledge share and best practices• Consulted and partnered with client to globally transform and enhance their HR organization through improved Service Delivery Model, project management, process workflow and standardization, HR technology, change management, and vendor selection • Led various internal initiatives to grow business through client pitches and planning and develop and attract practitioners through talent education, diversity, networking, and recruiting

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Developed in-depth confidential strategic metrics and dashboards for C-suite and HR executives, modeling HR employee effectiveness and efficiency scenarios in over 40 countries and leading to HR employee cost savings of over $3 million• Demonstrated savvy and leadership by obtaining and leading team of 5 no cost UCLA MBA students through 6-month thesis project/outsourcing opportunities study at Avery Dennison, while also giving back to my alma mater• Led and strategized global HR social media efforts by managing intranet site to maximize collaboration and idea sharing• Project managed and quality controlled HR Leadership Team and Business Partners in workshops to develop global and regional linkages and decision rights as well as Field HR sub-region leads to develop new Field implementation plans • Transformed and enhanced HR organization through work leading to new Service Delivery Model, including evaluations of HR employee workflow, process standardization, LMS vendors, telephony, financial budgets, and HR employee surveys

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Strategized long-term marketing plan focusing on academics and social development to stimulate overall demand for elite private school while better positioning client against its competition• Utilized comprehensive marketing techniques including perceptual maps, spider plots, segmentation splits, factor analysis, complex surveys, and interviews to fully research and analyze industry and client

Greater Atlanta Area

• Delivered 30% cost savings recommendations on $400,000 annual operations project by strategically and systematically improving Southeast headquarters and regional markets reporting efficiency• Minimized consumer churn in company-owned retail distribution channel by improving value proposition for current and prospective customers

Houston, Texas Area

• Increased profits of $5 million sunglass wholesaling business by 10% through development of entrepreneurial opportunities including a comprehensive web strategy • Reduced costs by 12% on $1.3 million supply chain project with two Chinese factories while improving product quality and design• Streamlined business and reduced bottleneck in customer order process by 25% through development and implementation of Excel software-based initiative

Houston, Texas Area

• Saved clients $40 million+ on transactions worth $1.2 billion in total par by spearheading financial refunding analysis efforts for 60 current and prospective clients leading to 30 wins• Priced and modeled five live deals worth $200 million in total par as lead banking team contact while directly working with underwriters and financial advisors to determine most efficient pricing levels• Successfully led team to $6 million in revenue through 18 client proposal response wins• Partnered in development of three other analysts and one intern through mentoring and on-the-job training

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Strategy And Entrepreneurship

Activities and Societies: • Leadership: VP of Career & Alumni Relations - Asian Management Student Association; U.S. Regional Board Member.

Mba, Business

MBA Exchange Student - Fall Semester 2009

Bba, Business

Activities and Societies: • Honors: Business Honors Program; Honor Societies - Gamma Beta Phi; Omicron Delta Epsilon • Leadership.

Bba, Business

BBA Exchange Student - Fall Semester 2002