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Management, financial and accounting advisor of distinctive entrepreneurial businesses. Serving clients in a variety of industries including consumer goods, manufacturing, distribution, information technology and construction.Director – Advises executive teams and manage growing companies, devising business strategies, orchestrating financing, facilitating strategic transactions, implementing value add information systems and driving organizational enhancements. Led wealth events including strategic mergers. Crafted and negotiated agreements, ideated creative solutions to crucial deal points and closed transactions yielding sizable liquidity events for the shareholders with structures for significant future wealth. Appointed senior financial executive of successor and legacy entities.Instrumental in a reversing a legacy of losses, rapidly leading the business to its first years of profitability. Implemented processes, procedures and systems that are sustaining positive cash flow.

Recruited to lead accounting, credit & collections, finance, financial planning & analysis, information technology, legal, risk management, strategy, treasury, and taxes. Mentored and managed career quality professional and administrative teams. Managed multi-national banks solving funding of the business’ rapid growth and working capital intensive strategies. Established and implemented best practices, internal controls and processes for effective financial management and business performance. Continuously improved reporting and analysis, interpreting financial results into timely actions to enhance profitability and optimize balance sheet performance.

Managed finance, accounting and client service engagement teams. Designed novel, debt capital facility raising funds that enabled the company's rapid growth. Collaborated and developed innovated audit recovery procedures and business intelligence technologies leading to enhanced clients recoveries.

Providing transitional management, financial and accounting services for start-up businessesServed as interim financial and accounting executive of KB Gear Interactive

Minnesota

Key member of executive team managing the most aspects of the business including licensing with major sports leagues and entertainment partners. Responsible for domestic and European operations along with product imports from Asia and Mexico.

Minnesota

Managed team of thirty in finance, accounting and corporate store operations.

Managed the corporate accounting group and the company’s financing subsidiaries. Responsible for SE/ external reporting and internal reporting of multiple subsidiaries and divisions.

Earned certification as Certified Public Accountant. Profitably managed audits of and advised large SEC registrants including Archer Daniels Midland, Northwest Airlines, Dayton-Hudson and Gould Electronics.