Ray Booth Email & Phone Number

Grand Rapids, MI, US

1 Scale Avenue, Building 14, Suite 81, Rutland, VT 05701

1 Brooklyn Road, Hempstead, NY

Greater Milwaukee Area

Greater Milwaukee Area

Stepped down from day to day role as CEO and have moved into an advisory role until my official retirement date of May 4, 2018...

Northbrook, IL

ForteONE, a boutique consulting firm that rapidly identifies, designs and implements action plans which create substantial growth in revenue, profits, and enterprise value for middle market companies.

Elk Grove Village, IL

Engaged as an independant third party "Project Lead" consultant working with ForteONE Consulting to assess, reccomend, and implement action plans to improve operational performance for this leading manufacturer of custom-made food products. Little Lady Foods specializes in the custom creation of premium pizzas, gourmet sandwiches, handheld pocket.

Northbrook, IL

ForteONE, a boutique consulting firm that rapidly identifies, designs and implements action plans which create substantial growth in revenue, profits, and enterprise value for middle market companies.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Provide strategic guidance and support to the Golden County Foods leadership team and its PE ownership firm to insure continued growth and profitability through acquisition and organic sales growth. Advise senior management team in all functional areas of the business.

Plover, Wisconsin

Assumed total sales and operational responsibility for this premier frozen appetizer business that was significantly underperforming expectations and that had broken financial covenants five months after acquisition by its PE sponsors. Assessed and re-engineered all relevant business practices to deliver financial results that exceeded revised 2008 goals.

Richfield, WI

Responsible for all areas of production, warehousing, logistics, purchasing, quality control, and human resources. Evaluate prospective acquisitions and lead the diligence effort with respect to operating strategy. Post close responsible for implementing operations synergy plan.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

P & L responsibility for this industry leader of packaged ice products manufactured and sold in 33 states and the District of Columbia through 65 manufacuring plants and over 120 distribution depots. Oversaw all aspects of operations, purchasing, and distribution. Successfully led the effort to divest our non-core refrigerated warehouse businesses and our.

P & L responsibility for all Reddy Ice manufacturing operations in Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, West Virginia as well as their refrigerated 3PL warehouses in Virginia and North Carolina and their bottled water facility located in Anniston, AL. Was responsible for all region customer relationships and directed sales in the pursuit of new.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Provided consulting services to clients in the areas of manufacturing, bottling, warehousing and logisitcs, quality systems management and operations KPI establishment and improvement.

As President responsible for P & L performance of this $370M full product line, multi-plant, multi-state dairy operation. Provided leadership to all relevant business functions of the company including operations, sales, marketing, customer service, quality, purchasing, accounting, and human resources. Exceeded budgeted sales and OI targets for each year.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Formulated and recommended manufacturing policies and programs to guide CFI and its subsidiaries in maintaining and improving its competitive position and profitability. Directed and coordinated those activities in such a manner as to facilitate that approved products were manufactured on schedule within quality and cost expectations while insuring.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Corporate resource with functional responsibilites including capital allocation, Plant and Product rationalization-synergies, Product safety-quality, plant operations, and Enron energy management contract negotiation and implementation.