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New York, Ny, Us

Lenexa, Kansas, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Key member of senior management team, setting corporate strategic direction. - Built business through a combination of organic growth and multiple acquisitions - Specific focus on driving profitability. Doubled revenue and increased EBITDA by 4x. More than doubled EBITDA margins while investing to build growing multi-product, international business. - Built finance organization to successfully handle operating requirements of growing business. Improved cash flow through aggressive working capital management. Established formal budgeting and forecasting process, including developing and tracking of key operating metrics to improve decision making across all business units. - Played key role in developing new pricing schemes for products to maximize share of wallet with existing customers, creating alternative pricing options to accelerate customer adoption of key products.- Structured and negotiated multiple acquisitions, drove due diligence process and integration plans. - Negotiated debt capital structure, securing funding to enable growth through investment in internal resources and to fund new acquisitions. Key driver of process to sell business for private equity owner. Successful sale of the business provided a very attractive return to private equity sponsor.

Rutherford, New Jersey, Us

Key senior member of management team, setting strategic direction for the company. Managed Information Technology, Production and Internet Development functions.- Dramatically improved the profitability of strategically important units, improving EBITDA margins from break even to over 20%, while significantly reducing cost structure of declining units to extend positive cash flow and profitability.- Refocused revenue growth on higher margin online products (34% 5 yr. CAGR). - Renegotiated all major vendor contracts, reducing key materials and services costs by 15-20%.- Restructured sales and edit resources more efficiently, reducing headcount by 26%. - Consolidated office space, moved corporate headquarters, reducing rent by over 65%.- Streamlined back office finance organization costs by 50%, while adding necessary infrastructure to operate as a stand-alone company.- Renegotiated debt capital structure, securing new funding with lower costs and enhanced financial flexibility, pushing out maturities and easing covenant restrictions.

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Responsible for all aspects of financial management, including capital markets structuring, business development and planning, financial reporting and controls, and budgeting/planning. - Integrated finance organizations of three recently merged companies to better meet financial goals. - Raised $10 million of venture capital financing. - Established corporate wide policies and procedures to improve financial controls and better manage costs of aggressively growing enterprise. - Obtained first external audits for young company.

New York, New York, Us

Responsible for capital structure management/planning, equity/debt financing, investor relations, risk management, cash management/forecasting, investment management, real estate, investment bank, commercial bank/rating agency relationships. - Structured $430 million IPO of Ziff-Davis and $200 million IPO of ZDNet. - Raised $1.6 billion bank and public debt financing at time of Ziff-Davis IPO - Negotiated and structured over $500 million of interim financings for parent, Softbank Hooldings.

Ab, Business Management

Mba, Finance