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Florida, United States

MHM Communities acquires and operates 55+ Senior Manufacture Home Communities throughout Florida. We enhance our communities by improving neighborhood infrastructure, building modern amenities, and expanding social activities. MHM has acquired over $3.0 billion in acquisitions over the past 20+ years. As Director of Community Acquisitions, I specialize in.

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

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Greater Atlanta Area

• Startup, micro-cap holding company that acquired companies in the early stages of development with the objective of a spin-off or sale.
• Defined company vision, long-range strategic planning, financial and business affairs.
• Led mergers and acquisitions, investor relations, and government regulatory compliance.
• Direct small staff of professionals and consulting team in the holding company.
• Acquired three operating companies and two were subsequently sold.
• Developed accounting and control systems in compliance with SEC reporting standards.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Founder of a dot-com micro-cap company that served as the official food portal for Yahoo! and CNN Interactive.
• Negotiated strategic alliances, maintained investor relations, government regulatory compliance, and product development. Directed four vice presidents and accounting staff.
• Provided information for food and wine professionals and recipes for the food lover, delivered an interactive Q&A site with chefs and sommeliers, and offered an e-commerce feature where consumers could purchase food.
• Built this start-up, publicly traded company to become the 4th largest Internet food portal in the world.
• Raised $7M in equity funding, taking company public in 1998. Generated $3.5M in annual revenues.
• Negotiated strategic and branding alliances with 50+ food web sites throughout the world, driving 16M page views per month with 2M unique visitors per month.

• Founder of a boutique consulting company working in affiliation with similar consulting firms throughout the world.
• Provided specialized management consulting to governments, associations, and companies in the hospitality and tourism industry. Clients were located in Canada, United States of America, Europe, Asia, and the South.
• Specialized in acquisitions and mergers, market development, organizational planning, productivity improvement, real estate, economic feasibility studies, and international contract negotiations.
• Acquired four hotel properties for a domestic client and assisted in securing related funding.
• Turned around a company that specialized in simulated interactive entertainment systems. Increased their revenues from $250K to $5M in one year.
• Completed a re-organization plan for the Pacific Asia Travel Association.

Toronto, Canada Area

• $300M diversified leisure division of a major real estate holding company responsible for seven operating companies.
• Improved profits from a $6.M loss to an $8.5M profit over a two-year period.
• Re-positioned a specialty shopping center resulting in an improvement of $1M in annual profits.
• Achieved an 86% market penetration of Japanese tourist to resort property in Niagara Falls, Canada.
• Designed a management accountability program based on annual budgets in combination with an MIS plan resulting in increased profitability and a reduction of annual turnover of staff.