Susan Kuruvilla Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

A Global Organization, Us

Renaissance Executive Forum Partners believe that evolved and conscious business leaders are a positive force in the world. We provide a platform that allows our members to access the collective intelligence of trusted peers to make wiser decisions and grow personally and professionally.And, it's a safe place where you can get your Answers Questioned by your peers.

I partner with CEOs to identify and address areas of the business that are inhibiting growth. I leverage my 20+ years as a CEO, President or CFO to diagnose and/or develop & implement strategies to drive top line growth, expand the strength & depth of the leadership team, improve the overall performance culture, simplify and enhance financial tracking metrics, and ensure employee communication outlets are being maximized throughout the organization. I want to create bandwidth for CEOs to focus on the Future and let me help ensure the Present does not get in the way of what's possible.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Member of Board of DIrectors and as of Jan 2020, Chair of the newly formed Nomination Committee

San Diego, California, Us

Cairn Leadership develops leaders through outdoor adventures coupled with gritty experiential learning, rigorous leadership study and executive leadership coaching.I had the pleasure of participating in their Executive Retreat camping in Joshua Tree National Park the weekend before CA went into lockdown March 2020. The power of learning from outdoor experiences with others is incredible (and fun).

San Diego, California, Us

San Diego, California, Us

Managed Solution is a Technology as a Service (Taas) firm that provides a full spectrum of managed and professional services to reduce the burden of day-to-day IT management. Clients have access to different hardware, software and service tier options, high-level and cost effective IT talent, and an award-winning US-based Help Desk located in Southern California.Managed Solution is in the top 1% of Microsoft Cloud Service Providers nationwide and also a Microsoft Gold Partner that provides customers with Microsoft solutions including Office 365, Azure, Teams, Sharepoint and Active Directory.

Glenview, Il, Us

Served as President of CLARK Security Products, an Anixter Company. Bring more than 25 years of experience in the fields of finance, operations, supply chain management, sales and distribution to this position. Provide operating experience in selling, integrating and running a private company now owned by a public company. • Generated 10% sales growth in first two years of new ownership• Retained 60% of sales managers that stepped out of management back into individual sales roles and upgraded sales management team• Expanded national footprint 21% by opening three distribution sites in new markets, leveraging Anixter’s U.S. facilities• Successfully navigated the 2008 recession by trimming expenses 17% to match like decline in sales, reducing inventory by 18% (bought from ourselves), consolidating the workforce by 14% and maintaining gross margins• Led company through health and wellness programs in 2010 resulting in award(s) for healthiest employer in San Diego for medium-sized companies with lower than average benefit cost increases

Glenview, Il, Us

Held position of CFO for 12 years. During this time period, negotiated, secured, and managed multiple bank financings up to $30M. Project managed multiple and varied attempts to sell the business, and successfully sold the business to public company Anixter. Founded in 1957 and headquartered near Chicago, Anixter trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AXE. Anixter International is a leading global distributor of network and security solutions, electrical and electronic solutions and utility power solutions. Anixter helps build, connect, protect, and power valuable assets and critical infrastructures.

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• Member of the winning team for Purchasing Magazine’s 1998 Medal of Excellence Award• Developed commodity and supplier strategy plans by commodity manager and streamlined the contract process through team standardization• Managed implementation of department strategies that led to the winning the Medal of Excellence Award

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• Developed a plan to move over $2M in excess GSE inventory internally and externally, reducing carrying costs by $100K• Used “should-cost” analyses and competitive bidding to limit a price increase to 2% over four years with our primary baggage tractor supplier

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• Created new management reporting procedures for a $64M worker’s compensation budget, saving $6M in double booked expense. Received an AAplause award for the worker’s compensation initiative

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• Responsible for analyzing monthly spending variances and capital spending requests and calculating transfer pricing charges between profit centers and cost centers • Participated in two AMR corporate budget processes

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

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• Managed a $200M commercial loan portfolio. Involved in all phases of transaction development, including credit approval, transaction structuring and execution and on-going account administration• Created a new industry data base and received Winners Circle recognition award• Client financial analyst• Performed collateral audits

Mba, General Management

Bba, Finance