Accomplished Executive with strong business acumen and entrepreneurial expertise. Demonstrated success improving global business performance and delivering sustained financial growth for startups, aggressive expansions, and franchises. Expertise lies in defining company vision, financial planning, mergers and acquisitions, investor relations and securities compliance. Proven ability in taking smaller companies public through reverse mergers. Excellent leadership skills building high performance teams and partnering finance with operations to promote cross functional collaboration.Launched a start-up company. Negotiated exclusive content recipe provider agreements with Yahoo! and CNN Interactive. Provided user traffic links to the company’s website driving 16M page views per month, achieving 2M unique visitors per month. IMPACT: Established 4th largest Internet food and beverage information portal in the world.Negotiated reverse merger to take company public. Assembled team of SEC attorneys, accounting firm, SEC audit firm, public relations firm and an investor relations firm. Hired an accounting department team and managed reporting compliance with the SEC and FINRA. IMPACT: Initiated trading stock on the Bulletin Board and began raising capital. Turned around $300M subsidiary. Established organizational re-structuring, management team-building, new product introductions, targeted marketing and sales programs, and a performance measurement system. IMPACT: Restored profitability within one year. Improved net operating profits from a $6M loss to an $8.5M profit over a two year period.Structured an investment strategy in compliance with SEC requirements. Wrote the Private Placement Offering Memorandum obtaining legal opinion to ensure regulatory compliance. Identified potential accredited investors and sold the investment units. IMPACT: Raised $7M in equity funding.