Paul G Weiss Email & Phone Number

Medford, Nj, Us

• Part of leadership team that designed and implemented State response to the COVID-19 pandemic: (i) served as legal liaison to Northern Jersey Medical Coordination Center, realigning PPE and decanting low acuity COVID-19 patients from 19 regional hospitals resulting in over 1100 saved bed days for critical care use; (ii) facilitated establishment and operation of three field hospitals under State DOH license; (iii) served with the Hospital’s Crisis Management Team in the Medical Command Center, assigned to address critical inquiries from medical staff and morgue detail, and (iv) developed vaccination distribution plan for clinical personnel and Hospital service area based on CDC directives.• Lead attorney facilitating $250 million annual supply chain management and procurement system, including negotiating various healthcare and professional services contracts; re-tooled purchasing policy to streamline and simplify procurement processes thereby expediting supply of goods, materials and services.• Successfully negotiated $50 million Thermal Energy Co-Generation Development Project jointly financed with Rutgers University, New Jersey Energy Resilience Bank, the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank and Public Service Gas and Electric, to provide redundant thermal power and electricity to all Hospital facilities, with expected annual savings of $1.0 million.• Part of leadership team examining merger and acquisition opportunities and developing $850 million strategic CAPEX Plan.• Rewrote organizational bylaws for the Hospital, its Oversight Board and Community Advisory Council.• Support HIPAA, code of conduct and ethics compliance functions.

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• Oversee all human resources, labor and employment, dispute resolution and litigation, compliance and code of ethics programs, risk management, legislative initiatives, organizational governance, procurement of goods and services, and negotiation of complex and diverse transactions from licensing and protecting intellectual property to financing commercial redevelopment projects.• Part of State leadership team restructuring Atlantic City government functions, and identifying public-private partnerships to facilitate economic and community development. Successfully negotiated $150 million public-private marketing partnership with casino industry, $40 million outsourcing of convention sales and marketing division, merged and acquired $500 million convention center and arena operations and $5 million special improvement district management company.• Led the legal team that successfully sold Series 2014 $242 million Luxury Tax Revenue Bonds which fund the Authority’s seven year capital projects campaign.• Negotiated development and project investment agreements with aggregate value of approximately $1.0 billion; and resolved community disputes stalling $290 million commercial redevelopment project.• Led development team overseeing stakeholder interface for property acquisition, condemnation and relocation functions necessary for infrastructure improvement and redevelopment initiatives, with aggregate value in excess of $100 million.

• As Mayor, reduced 2009 annual budget by 88%, held 2010 budget flat, while maintaining consistent public services, and led controversial effort to consolidate police and public safety services with neighboring town.• As Committee Chair, led effort for federal and state disaster relief in aftermath of July 2004 flood that destroyed several dams, bridges and other infrastructure, successfully negotiating $2.2 million of FEMA public assistance, $12 million in state aid, $1.5 million in commercial financing for community non-profit, and raising private funding of $500,000 to jump start capital projects. All capital reconstruction projects completed by the summer of 2007, on time and on budget.• As project manager for community-based non-profit: (i) delivered on time and under budget a $2.3 million dredging project, prosecuted over an eleven month period without accident or injury, (ii) negotiated alternative transportation and disposal contract for dredged soils that realized project savings in excess of $1 million, and (iii) successfully negotiated $2.0 million settlement of class action lawsuit, recovering 100% of defense and indemnity claims.

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• As Vice President and General Manager, led team that successfully reengineered and retrained corporate quality and environmental health and safety management systems thereby avoiding governmental fines and seizures of nationwide production facilities that jeopardized $60 million in sales, $27 million in EBITDA. Resulting implementation of new corporate quality and safety management system allowed for plant recoveries, and correction and prevention of all significant inspectional violations company-wide, without any lost sales or market share, while realizing higher productivity, lower landed cost to customers, and only nominal increase to planned CAPEX.• Working with Production personnel, developed new corporate regulatory compliance model for medical gases manufacturing, occupational health and safety, and internal quality assurance auditing. Led cross-functional team that created and implemented FDA-compliant validation protocols for medical gases manufacturing.• Represented the company in government inspectional and enforcement contexts and as public affairs liaison for the Crisis Management Team. Avoided approximately $15 million in potential fines and penalties by leading interactions with federal regulators on behalf of customers, re-engineering critical drug manufacturing quality control systems, and re-training local management in response to an internally identified failure of product quality control.• Directed safety management system overhaul, saving approximately $1 million annually over four years, and improving safety metrics two-fold, increasing productivity, and with minimal CAPEX investment.• Oversaw government and legislative affairs; public policy liaison to industry trade association. Successfully lobbied for legislation that provided more time for industry implementation of evolving good manufacturing practice requirements in the face of FDA enforcement actions.

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• As member of the Management Committee responsible for worldwide reorganization, refinancing and wind-up of US and European subsidiaries: (i) successfully led the UK subsidiary and over a five month period, negotiated the sale of the $80 million UK and European equipment services businesses, while transitioning majority of employees to successor businesses, (ii) sold $50 million US equipment service business, and (iii) satisfied 100% of secured and ten percent of unsecured creditor claims. • Resolved environmental remediation enforcement action, supervised implementation of remedial action work-plan and negotiated resolution of $2.5 million pollution liability claim with landlord and commercial general liability carriers.• Negotiated domestic and international technology distribution and services agreements, and intellectual property licensing transactions, notably: $1 million annual service outsourcing to IBM; $3 million equipment supply agreement with Mitsubishi (Japan); and $5 million annual OEM agreement with ACER (Taiwan).• Avoided possible fines in excess of $10 million pertaining to GSA and DOJ investigations of alleged violations of US Customs and Federal Acquisition Regulations involving transnational, intra-company purchase arrangements and “most-favored nation” pricing under government contracts.• Settled multi-carrier coverage of class action ERISA lawsuit, saving the company over $2.0 million and reimbursing 100% of defense and indemnity claims from insurance proceeds.

Associate in Business, Bankruptcy and Litigation departments

Strategic Leadership

Jd, Law

Finance, General; Securities Investment

Russian Military Tactics And Strategy

Ba, International Studies And Russian

Pass With Honors, Russian Language