➢ Responsible for Finance, Accounting, Legal, IT and BI for a 1000+ unit, multi-brand Franchisor➢ Member of the Executive Team and integral to setting the strategic direction of the Company

Golds Gym International Chief Administration Officer, October 2019 – Present ➢ Member of the Executive Team, integral in developing and implementing short and long term strategic plans for a 650 unit Global Full Service fitness Chain with over 2.5 million members ➢ Responsible for leading all Finance, Accounting, Purchasing, Information Technology, Legal, Real Estate, Business Intelligence and Construction & Facilities ➢ Led Covid related Bankruptcy filing in May 2020 alongside Financial and Legal advisors. Bankruptcy exit, which took less than 4 months, included a successful 363 Asset sale resulting in 100% recovery to creditors

➢ Responsible for all financial and strategic planning aspects of the Company➢ Development of budget, forecasting and reporting processes➢ Implementation of operational key performance metric reporting➢ Development and implementation of Bonus plan and Benefit plans➢ Cash Flow management and facilitation of debt & equity financing

➢International Casual Dining with approximately 1000 units. Led the execution of a 16 unit management agreement to a new Franchisee, including transition planning and execution. ➢ Facilitated a $450M refinancing/securitization, including ratings agency presentation development, due diligence coordination and investor presentation development.➢ 5-year financial plan development and strategic advisory for a Fast Casual client.

➢ 5-Year Strategic Planning, M&A, Capital Planning, International and US Franchise Financial Planning, Analysis and Reporting for a private Company with over $2.5 Billion in Sales.➢ Responsible for leading the divestiture of approximately 250 Company units expected to generate over $175 million in proceeds, including deal management, transaction negotiation and execution, and transition planning and execution➢ Highly involved in all facets a 2014 sale transaction to a Private equity firm, including due diligence, information memorandum drafting, management presentations, and debt financing.➢ Led the capital budgeting, forecasting and reporting process with Global spend of $50-$100 million annually, including new store and remodel investments➢ Experience in multi-unit asset management strategy, including leading the Sale-Leaseback transactions of 12 land parcels generating $42.5 million in proceeds, assessment of new store growth strategy & store closure strategy➢ Completed the divestiture of an 80 unit Restaurant chain➢ Led the FP&A function for the US Franchise Division with $900 Million in sales and over 275 units. Developed and implemented Budgeting, Analysis and Financial reporting tools and processes.➢ Developed automated business intelligence reporting for all US Franchisees to assess business performance on key financial and operational metrics.➢ Highly involved in various strategic efforts including real estate, asset management, Joint Ventures (existing and future), Lender relationship management and Franchisee relationship management/strategic analysis (including workouts)➢ Key participant in Executive level analysis

➢Responsible for leading acquisition sourcing, due diligence and execution for a public company with $1B in revenue.➢Targeted and reviewed a substantial number of private companies, including distressed assets, in two disparate segments of the uniform industry.➢Involved in integration planning and activities, including post-acquisition analysis and review.➢ Conducted detailed review of acquisition program, strategy and analysis tools. Recommended and implemented material changes to improve the full process.➢ Reported to the President of Direct Purchase and Business Development.

➢Co-Head of Strategy and Corporate Development for Carlson, a privately held company with over $4 Billion in Revenue, with focus on the Travel and Restaurant Divisions➢ Responsible for coordination of annual business strategic reviews and integral to overall Company strategic planning process.➢ Leadership and support of material business unit mergers, acquisitions and divestiture efforts. Support of corporate development activity with Joint Venture partners.➢Responsible for planning, preparation and presentation of topic specific materials for Carlson board meetings.➢Reported to the Chief Financial Officer.

➢ Focus on business strategy and acquisitions for the Leisure Group division, with $600M in Gross Sales.➢Successfully identified, valued, negotiated and completed 8 acquisitions in the first 19 months with limited staff.➢Coordinated acquisition teams from initial stages to post-close integration. Teams included: tax, accounting, operations, legal, risk management, human resources, information technology, real estate and treasury.➢Reported to the Division CEO. Member of the Division Executive Team.

➢Provided corporate finance advisory services to middle market technology and biotechnology companies in a variety of sectors.➢Worked with a multi-billion dollar international IT Services company to: (i) define acquisition goals, (ii) identify and pre-screen acquisition candidates, (iii) approach select potential targets, (iv) provide initial due diligence and valuation analysis for purposes of issuing letters of intent and (v) coordinate and close transactions as appropriate.➢Managed an extensive research effort in Business Processes Outsourcing for business development purposes.➢Primary manager of active engagements. Interactively developed transaction models for buy side and sell side merger transactions, sophisticated leveraged partnership transactions and capital raise transactions.

➢Conducted due diligence, prepared valuation materials and assisted in prospectus preparation for several technology initial public offerings.➢Executed due diligence, prepared confidential selling memoranda and facilitated the auction process in conjunction with the proposed sale of several middle market technology companies.➢Applied comparable company analysis, comparable transaction analysis and discounted cash flow analysis for purposes of providing valuation advisory to clients.➢Drafted SEC filings, exclusive sale memoranda and internal commitment documents.➢Actively participated in recruiting and training of new employees.

➢ Financial Analyst, June 1999 - July 2000.➢Manufacturing Engineer, September 1997 - June 1999.➢Product Design Engineer, December 1993 - September 1997.