Todd Peter Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Oh, Us

My personal experience includes: C-level perspective on strategy with hands-on experience from working in smaller organizations, broad functional experience from finance, industrial operations, and sales (product and service), exceptional ability to ramp-up quickly, adapt and respond in highly fluid and ambiguous situations and an intense curiosity & determination to understand issues at the root level. Change agentAreas of Expertise: FINANCE: Financial reporting. Working capital management. Costing and pricing development and analysis. Financial budgeting and analysis, operational metrics, budgeting and capital planning. Growth and turnaround planning and execution.OPERATIONS: Supply chain development and management. Plant operations and efficiency. ERP/MRP implementation and utilization. Quality and manufacturing engineering development. Cost reduction. Process experience: assembly, forging, fabrication, machining, plastic molding, electronics.SALES: Pricing analysis and margin improvement. Sales force compensation. Product/channel/segment profitability and strategy. Channel development. M&A: Deal negotiation, deal diligence, deal financing. Target integration, synergy development.Industry Specialties: Companies manufacturing industrial, consumer, and engineered products, companies in the food industry, automotive industry, contract manufacturing in metals, polymers, electronics. Value added distribution to industrial, commercial and food industry.

Merger and acquisition advisory services to mid market companies seeking to grow via acquisitions, mid market companies seeking Corporate development expertise on an outsourced basis, and private owners (in select industries of expertise) seeking to exit their business through a sale.

Akron, Ohio, Us

Responsible for overall financial operations, systems development, operations systems development for organization undergoing rapid changes in product lines, operations approach. Activities include development of strategic balance sheet alternatives, preparation and support of divestiture activity, capital raising, in addition to operational aspects of managing hyper growth in sales and organization.Developed business unit segmentation revealing accurate profitability realities, opportunities for segment divestiture, and needs for strategic realignment. Supported shutdown of unprofitable programs, and profitability turnaround and 2X working capital efficiency increase over 12 months.long term assignment that evolved from consulting role.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Mid market Merger and acquisition, financing , LBO advisory. Sell side representation, buy side representation, strategic consultancy for acquisitions.

Private equity investment partnership with focus on distressed company investing. Evaluated over 60 opportunities, with 6 accepted LOI.

Executed turnaround of long term distressed operation, returning business to profitability, reducing working capital to cash and executing a sale to strategic buyer at 40% premium to prior offers.

Responsible for all design and manufacturing engineering activities , professionalizing organization, and managing all operations (assembly, test, sourcing, planning) for growing Weatherhead 100 manufacturer of innovative paint spray equipment. Executed facilities move, new ERP system installation and implementation.

Originally hired to run significant acquisition in progress. Undertook major re-process engineering and implementation of overall operation. Converted traditional process oriented manufacturing operation to lean cellular manufacturing, installing new technology forging equipment, Selected and implemented new integrated financial/ERP planning systems and created automated sales pricing quoting system. Reduced plant turnover from 250% and improved EBITDA margins to near 15%.

Dublin, Ireland, Ie

Finance, marketing, operations, international, high tech. Operating divisions of Eaton Corp.Specific experience including work in corporate strategy, marketing strategy development, financial reporting management and planning in the areas of manufacturing, engineering project management and development, assembly and test of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and national/international level sales and marketing responsibility for high tech industrial sales. Contributed to divisional growth from $20M to $150M in 4 years and managing through the turbulence of the semiconductor market cycles.

Mba, Edward Tuck Scholar, Business Administration And Management, General

Bse, Engineering - Systems Engineering