Dynamic C-Suite leader and trusted strategic legal advisor to executive management and Boards of global, publicly traded, and privately held/private-equity-backed companies. 25+ year career spanning national and multinational companies in range of industries including commercial transportation, private aviation, retail, hospitality, diversified consumer products, manufacturing & commercial distribution. Proven history of building, motivating and leading high-performing legal service teams within cross-functional, highly matrixed organizations, fostering results through engagement, communication and accountability. Demonstrated ability to stabilize and reenergize teams during business challenges and changing environments. Excels as a versatile and adaptable executive who builds reliable relationships with business partners in fast-changing, intense environments, with capability to handle numerous, divergent responsibilities simultaneously to drive corporate success. • Directed deployment of legal services to the organization through period of revenue growth from $400M to $1.65B over 14+ year tenure. Advised and led legal support for operating footprint expansion of over $250M of capital investment over four years.• Spearheaded all North American legal activities for all divisions in support of parent company initial public offering (IPO) filing on Frankfort stock exchange (2017-2018). Managed pre & post-closing strategy, due diligence, transactional and governmental approval (DOJ, EUC, CIFIUS) activities involving; attempted $680M acquisition of major multinational competitor; $150M stock purchase of steering manufacturing company; and $55M in company asset acquisitions and divestitures. Directed legal support of all PMI activities to achieve cost savings and revenue growth business cases.• Led all facets of legal defense strategy for product liability, commercial and labor/employment litigation of the company; Developed core litigation strategies for all lawsuits and pre-suit claims. Successfully resolved numerous high exposure product liability lawsuits against the company, including complete dismissal and low-dollar value settlements, eliminating potential multimillion jury verdicts.• Regional Compliance Officer for all NA legal entities; Collaborated with regional compliance officers in Europe, APAC and Mexico in development/deployment of global corporate compliance policies, procedures and training programs. Directed three Compliance Officers in US and MX to ensure program execution and enforcement.Father of 3 wonderful people.