Leader with diverse and extensive hands-on experience launching and building companies, selling and marketing products and services, creating strategic alliances and partnerships, purchasing and selling businesses, turning around businesses and sourcing financing. Has 30 years of entrepreneurial leadership in roles of President, CEO, COO, and Director in manufacturing turnarounds, venture capital funding, start-ups, Fortune 100 strategic alliances, and joint ventures with innovative companies.Professional Expertise• Visionary planner exposed to a multitude of industry and business types as they evolve with changing environments, requiring matching resources to short and long term goals, setting priorities, and creating monitors for attainment of objectives.• Evaluates businesses, develops strategy and business plans to achieve success. • Active board of director member in business and charitable arenas. AchievementsBusiness Growth and Turnaround: • Assumed P&L responsibility for an insolvent manufacturing concern in a stalled economy. Achieved a successful turn-around in eighteen months while building the company to record profitability. • Developed a strategy to create a major opportunity for a public corporation leading to the successful sale of business for a $2million gain.Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances: • Formed a joint venture with Booz Allen Hamilton and strategic alliance with Digital Equipment Corporation resulting in major business opportunities. Sale of Business and Business Acquisitions:• Facilitated the sale of an insolvent retail food distribution company yielding over a $2M gain on sale.• Acquired two companies in the retailing software and raised capital to finance the acquisition.Business Financing: • Venture capital financed a multi-million dollar start-up from concept to sale of business.• Assembled angel financing and subordinated debt to finance the acquisition of two software companies.