Thompson Business Group, LLC provides back office support to Registered Investment Advisers and other small businesses in the form of Compliance, Operations, Bookkeeping and HR functions.

In addition to the roles of Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Operations Officer, played a major role in HR and Finance

Supported owners in the area of bookkeeping of multiple companies, research of individuals and properties and developing marketing materials on multi-complex properties and land sales.

Reduced firm’s costs substantially: $50,000 annually by taking initiative to learn other positions and assumed those roles through attrition; $39,000 annually by implementing a new health insurance plan; reduced by up to 70% annually the company B&O tax through astute research and discovering previous employee’s errors and lack of attention to detail.Protected firm’s data assets and customers’ confidential information by creating a disaster recovery program and upgrading the network computer system to allow for cloud syncing. Saved the company thousands of dollars per year in both recouped time and increased efficiencies by developing a structured filesystem to replace outdated paper system.Freed up firm’s resources to focus on revenue-generating areas and transferred the risk and burden of paying employment taxes and processing payroll by hiring a payroll service.Initiated leading a 7-member team for 3 months on what had previously been their failing project without any strategic goals or projected completion date. Foresaw and assumed leadership of this project outside of scope of job function to set collective team goals, facilitate communication, and complete within one week of new aggressive goal.Improved employee efficiency through research and implemented little-known software program which saves hundreds of keystrokes per day and eliminates the need to key in long documents.

Worked with small and medium business regarding: 1) Labor Management 2)HR 3)Business Systems 4)Tax and Regulatory Compliance 5)Benefit Administration

Increased trading efficiency by over 50% through automating processes and substantially reduced the risk of trading errors. Spearheaded the firm through its first SEC Audit.

Created and led all aspects of opening a small financial firm, including obtaining clients, meeting industry regulations, and marketing in order to comply with Broker-Dealer standards.Doubled number of clients within first seven months by earning the trust of the OSJ (Office of Supervisory Jurisdiction).

Advised a client with a large concentrated position in Washington Mutual by facilitating reduction of his exposure and avoided him being financially devastated when Washington Mutual became insolvent.Mentored other advisers in both product and compliance aspects of the financial industry, helping them increase their revenue and avoid potential disciplinary action.Researched and offered clients unique products, which resulted in greater diversification for the clients with better returns.

Finished #1 for industrial inside sales and #2 overall sales out of 187 employees due to excellent customer service, attention to detail, short and long-term goal planning, and strategic partnering.Increased sales by 200% in 2000 by working closely with Fortune 500 companies to provide industrial automation equipment, which reduced their overall operating costs.Catapulted client satisfaction and streamlined company processes to increase financial revenue and partner with upper management while serving as the quality improvement administrator.Implemented sound business practices, which propelled branch to 2nd best for accounts receivable (previously 3rd worst) in company out of 25 branches within approximately 6 months.