Patrick W. Smith Email & Phone Number

Grenada, Mississippi, United States

- Oversee and manage all internal and external audits for a $3B community bank in Mississippi and Tennessee. This includes managing multiple internal and external relationships with employees and vendors.- Acting Project Manager for implementing the Enterprise Risk Management (“ERM”) and Model Risk Management programs for the Financial Institution (“FI”). This includes working with external vendors, negotiating fee structures, and implementation of various software platforms.- Acting Project Manger for project to identify KPIs across the FI. Lead on implementing KPI BI dashboard solution.

Greenwood, Ms

- Primary contact for Operations Excellence activities for all Plants.- Direct all activity and teams between Finance and Operations across four manufacturing plants and distribution to drive efficiencies/profitability for a $250M Company between Viking Range and Lynx Grills. Primary responsibility is identifying areas for profit enhancement and develop tools for Operations to increase profitability to maximum targets across the Company with a goal of 30%+ EBITDA - currently realizing that amount.- Direct long term strategy and team for Oracle EBS system and oversee project for implementing ASCP for entire Organization. Also oversee and direct all Oracle development activities for the Company, serving as the PM for these activities.- Lead development of key metrics and lead the team for development of dashboards through the DOMO BI platform, managing three consulting companies. Created a training program for plant operation managers and technical experts to use this data by plant and track KPI's thoughout the business, thus increasing profitability and production output.- Responsible for all Plant and Operations Accounting activities - oversee four controllers, business intelligence, and development resources. - Oversee special projects for the Company on strategic initiatives to increase profitability further. Serve as a change agent on Senior Management Team for Viking Range and Lynx Grills.

Greenwood, Mississippi, United States

Greenwood, Mississippi

• Currently oversee all accounting/finance activities for Lynx Grills while serving as Director, Process Improvement. Successfully developed Cost Accountant to become Controller, Lynx role beginning in January 2022. • Responsible for all accounting, finance, and operational forecasting for a $65M high end outdoor appliance manufacturing Company, a division of Middleby Corporation, that is a $3B international public Company. Lynx Grills operates as the outdoor division for Viking Range, LLC out of Greenwood, MS.• Oversaw financial and various operational tasks for movement of Company from California to Mississippi during 2019. Responsibilities included serving on grass-roots transition leadership team, establishing and tracking $5M transition operating budget, performing pro-forma P&L forecasts throughout transition, cost management, establishing and implementing a standard costing system for all inventory items (with assistance from Viking Range associates), on boarding and establishing distribution fulfillment cycle for key customers, creating and advising on distribution operations to maximize efficiencies, and wind-down accounting oversight for California location. • Oversee the maintenance and continual improvement of the standard costing system by working closely with cost accounting, purchasing and engineering to establish standards that are reliable and accurate. Work cross functionality on Kanzan events to improve product margins and increase profitability.• Developed KPI’s (i.e. man hours per unit, scrap rates, down-time, etc.) for manufacturing plants in cooperation with operations management, supply chain, and engineering teams. - Work with the President, CFO, and General Managers to provide functional expertise on developing models for both Viking Range and Lynx Grills for various projects. Examples include line rate calculations and modeling, financial budget to actual models, etc.

Florence, Alabama

Reporting to the SVP of Distribution, Patrick is responsible for providing leadership for the following warehouse departments: Inbound, Restock, Internet, Merchant Liaison, Outside Sales, 3PL, Purchasing, Engineering, Reslotting, Process Excellence, Inventory Control, Maintenance, and Housekeeping. Patrick has full P&L accountability for these groups in addition to providing oversight for facility wide strategic initiatives and planning. Oversaw and directed development of all Process Excellence programs and KPI reporting.

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Oversee all Sarbanes Oxley ("SOX"), operational audit, risk management, process excellence, external audit, and special project activities for a $1 billion private company (previous publicly traded). This includes overseeing a department of eight full time employees and outside consultants focusing on the activities above for various Company divisions. All Company divisions include approximately 260 retail stores for Books-A-Million, Second and Charles, and Yogurt Mountain divisions; 3 distribution facilities in Florence, AL; five real estate properties throughout the US; and various other entities owned and managed by the Company. Report directly to the EVP-CFO, CEO and Board of Directors. Also provide outsourced internal audit and advisory services to related party Companies (i.e. TNT Fireworks, etc.) throughout the year.

Baldwyn, Ms

- Managed all areas of Sarbanes-Oxley (“SOX”) compliance for a $300 millionpublicly traded company, including both business and information systemcontrols. - Directly and indirectly oversaw IA engagements and staff of store and loss prevention auditors (~7 FTE's) throughout the year. This included performing all steps of audit engagements and providing guidance on how to improve audit and Company processes.- Oversaw Data Integrity Department (3 FTE's) throughout the year and was charged with ensuring data integrity for the entire enterprise (i.e. SKU set-up, pricing event execution, etc.). - Designed and implemented process excellence initiatives throughout the enterprise leading to qualitative and quantitative savings.

Jackson, Ms

- Acted as an outsourced internal auditing consultant for five publicly tradedcompanies ($300M to $1.5B in revenue), specifically focusing in the retail industry. Duties included identifying, establishing and documenting internal control procedures as required under the Sarbanes Oxley Act for allbusiness processes. Performed planning functions for internal auditengagements which included: conducting entity wide risk assessments(qualitatively and quantitatively), efficiently streamlining business cyclecontrols to address risks and reporting on findings. Duties also includedassisting each company’s Accounting Department in performing analyticalanalysis that required industry knowledge.- Successfully led multiple engagement teams through all stages of an audit.- Assisted in external audits for manufacturing, retail, governmental, agricultureand service oriented companies. Duties included ensuring compliance withGenerally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”), GovernmentalAccounting Standards (“Yellow Book”) and Health Insurance Portability andAccountability Act (“HIPAA”).

Cleveland, Ms

- Served as the Fiscal Manager for four grants totaling $2.1MM in total funding over a three year period. All accounting duties were performed during this time period.- Selected as a B.F. Smith Scholar during graduate studies (only two were selected each year from entire DSU campus).- Served in a liaison role as a B.F. Smith scholar among the University and multiple Mississippi Delta communities in the execution of grant objectives and goals.- Assisted and wrote grant proposals to both private and public funding agencies. Duties included researching the Delta region and communicating the need for funding to help grows its infrastructure and human capital. An example of this is the B.B. King museum in Indianola, MS

Scott, Ms

- Performed all Internal Audit testing procedures for a medium sized publicly tradedagriculture company with approximately $375 million in revenues.

Executive Leadership, 4.0 Gpa

Master'S Degree, Masters Of Accountancy, 3.85 Gpa

Bachelor'S Degree, Major - Accounting; Minor - Computer Information Systems, 3.65 Gpa

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Accounting And Finance