Senior Consultant
San Francisco Bay Area + Worldwide
Nationally recognized specialist in business and organizational crisis management, workouts, restructuring/turnarounds, and bankruptcyAssumed cross-functional, project-based leadership roles involving hands-on management of distressed companies valued between $3M and $500M. Clients typically consisted of venture capital-backed technology businesses in a cross-section of industries. Responsibilities generally included assuming fiduciary responsibility for financially distressed companies, managing operations, implementing formal and informal restructuring or liquidation plans, and executing the marketing and sale of the company or its intellectual property and other strategic assets• 10+ years of engagements as project lead, interim manager, consultant, and/or board director• B2C & B2B internet, enterprise software, networking, data, biotech, fintech, mortgage, etc• Interim general management and operations• Bankruptcy process management and alternative procedures for insolvent entities• Company/asset sales: marketing, negotiations, diligence & documentation of transactions• Intellectual property sales and licensing, hardware & software sales and licensing• Financial & balance sheet restructuring including creditor negotiations & settlements• Constituency management: shareholder, creditor, customer, employee & professionals• Foreign subsidiary management, restructuring &/or closure• Legal threat evaluation & litigation response support• Human resources: workforce reductions, benefit plan closures, recruiting as required• Financial plans, budgeting, reporting & tax return management• Project management and reportingRepresentative Client Projects: Anosys, Applied Identity, Antrim Design Systems, Alidian Networks, BlindsGalore.com, Cinta Networks, ComUnity Lending, Fourth Communications, Matera Networks Latus Lightworks, MovieBeam, nCube, nSite Software, Offroad Capital, Personify, Pets.com, Pharmix, TeraOptic Networks, TestQuest, and Visual Numerics
