Rich Lindahl Email & Phone Number

Chevy Chase Village, Md, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Board member and Chair of Audit Committee

Washington, Dc, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

CFO for this NYSE-listed, $950 million annual revenue, global best practice insight and technology company. Responsible for leading a global team of 200 people, across 50 locations, delivering all aspects of financial strategy, management and operations, and managing corporate real estate portfolio. Key accomplishments include: - Developed long-range operating and capital allocation plans in partnership with the CEO that increased equity market capitalization from $560 million to $2.6 billion over an eight year period.Set aggressive top line targets and executed disciplined cost management strategy enabling 14% compound annual growth in revenue and adjusted EBITDA. - As chair of investments & acquisitions committee, provided strategic, negotiating, and financing guidance for eleven M&A transactions valued at over $1 billion and representing 25% of CEB’s annual revenue. - Served as executive sponsor for Project Atlas, CEB’s multi-year effort to transform its business operations infrastructure. Program scope included integration of cloud-based CRM and ERP systems to enable a single, global platform for lead management, order-to-cash, record-to-report and other financial processes.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Top 30 executive for this Fortune 50 company and third largest US wireless telecom carrier with over $35B of revenue. Responsible for 650 people executing corporate finance, capital markets, treasury operations, cash management, insurance, enterprise risk management, business continuity, real estate and corporate tax. Key accomplishments include: - Aggressively right-sized cost structure, reducing annual operating budget by over $100M (14%) to $630 million and lowering headcount by 175 positions (21%). - Successfully integrated Sprint and Nextel Treasury organizations and implemented cost-saving initiatives yielding over $40 million in annual synergies. - Negotiated $9 billion credit facility, led $4.5 billion bond syndication for spinoff of the company’s local telephone business, implemented $400 million commercial paper program, and managed liquidity to fund $14 billion of affiliate company rollup acquisitions.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Senior executive for this Fortune 300 company and fifth largest US wireless telecom carrier with $14B of revenue. Responsible for corporate finance, capital markets, credit, collections, cash management, and insurance. Key accomplishments include: - Completely restructured balance sheet over three year period via innovative private debt-for-equity and debt-for-debt exchanges, direct equity issuances, and opportunistic bond deals. Significantly improved liquidity, flexibility and credit ratings by cutting outstanding debt in half, extending maturities, reducing average debt cost by 25% and expanding credit lines. This initiative provided a key catalyst for the contemporaneous eight-fold increase in the company’s stock price. - Managed public restructuring of Nextel International subsidiary (selected by IDD as Deal of the Year for Media/Telecom in 2002), which eliminated $2.2 billion of consolidated debt while maintaining a 38% equity interest thus enabling 100% recovery of the company’s $1.2 billion historical investment. - Oversaw credit policy and collections teams as bad debt expense reduced by 75% and DSO lowered 25%.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Worldwide, Oo

Mba, General Management

Ba, Computer Science