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I partner with senior decision-makers and front-line managers to achieve sustainable step-change value creation and revitalization through holistic operational and financial transformations. 25+years of hands-on finance and operational experience in situations raging from distressed turnarounds to ‘good-to-great’ transformations and hyper-growth startups.Select Experience:$1.4B NORTH AMERICAN MINING COMPANYChief Transformation Officer. Responsible for development and implementation of $135M+ operational transformation program. This transformation served as the cornerstone of the company’s successfully negotiated consensual recapitalization.$1B VC-BACKED HYPER-GROWTH STARTUPInterim Director of Operations. Led initial phase of operations launch, scaling of internal teams and transition of operating responsibilities to permanent team members. Responsible for development and execution of the strategy, and codification of rapidly scalable SOPs.$20M CLOUD-ENABLED STREAMING MEDIA COMPANYServed as financial advisor to a leading mobile communications provider in the successful restructuring of a critical technology partner. Provided a comprehensive evaluation, as well as strategic recommendations, on available alternatives, and led negotiation of financing package to support the successful transition of services and sale of the company.$350M PUBLICLY TRADED CPG COMPANYDeveloped comprehensive ‘path to profitability’ plan prioritizing operational and EBITDA enhancing initiatives across marketing, procurement, warehousing and logistics, and through improved business processes, to drive $20M+ in recurring annual EBITDA enhancement.$400M+ MULTI-CHANNEL AND VERTICALLY INTEGRATED SPECIALTY RETAILERInterim Executive and Restructuring Officer. Successfully pivoted business to a ‘back to basics’ operating model that yielding LTM EBITDA improvement of $37M, comp revenue improvements across direct and retail channels and a 40% reduction in year-end inventory and AR.

Listed skills include Leadership, Turnaround Experience, Collaborative Problem Solving, Business Transformation, and 26 others.

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  Babson College

  Finance - Summa Cum Laude