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Our business advisory and consulting services span several areas critical for your business success. We help you, the owner, work on your business, rather than just in your business. We help you develop and execute the strategies for you to reach your personal and business goals. Most importantly, we help solve your problems by driving operational excellence. Our operational focus is what sets us apart. The four major areas in which we can help your business are: - Strategies to improve growth in revenues, profitability & cash - Guidance and programs to change process and structure to match the current and future needs of your business - Transition and exit planning; an area every business owner needs to focus on regardless of where you are in your owner lifecycle- Business recovery and financial restructure We are operational professionals ourselves with expertise in sales, operations and finance as business owners and senior management team members of successful businesses. We are complementary to your CPA and other advisors and we tailor our engagements based on our understanding and analysis of your individual company’s needs, issues and opportunities. Many of our clients find our proprietary Owner’s Edge Discovery Process (TM) to be a significant value enabler. It is an intensive review of your business, starting with your personal strategy and ending with a set of actions necessary to reach your goals and a custom metrics set to ensure you stay on track. This process is specifically designed to enhance your business’s strategic focus, solve systemic issues and execute opportunities that enhance company value. Our unique and flexible process is tailored to your personal and business needs. It is a key strategy to drive your business to a new level of operational excellence, company flexibility, sustainability and transferability.

Providence, Ri

Nortek is a $2 Bil. Holding Company owned by T.H. Lee with 30+ companies around the world.Responsible for working with underperforming operating companies.- Strategic reorganization plans for group of companies resulting in significant annual operating performance improvements.Strategic advisor to the CEO, CFO, Treasurer and Senior VP of Operations of the corporation.- Project manager, facilitator or active participant for all enterprise-wide initiatives.- Led strategic sourcing initiative; achieved tens of millions savings in year 1.- Successfully facilitated sourcing of LTL, ocean freight and small package spend resulting in meaningful savings.- Created Nortek Metrics System; increased productivity, profitability, customer satisfaction and problem-solving focus across portfolio companies.- Facilitated Demand Flow Technology (DFT); significant inventory reductions, headcount reductions and world-class productivity, efficiency, on-time & complete and quality metrics.

- Successfully planned and integrated acquisition resulting in significant annual profitability increase.

1989-1994 Lender's Bagel Bakery - West Haven, CT1994-1996 Finance & Human Resources Reengineering Team - Northfield, IL- Led initiative to understand senior and division management’s reporting needs. Identified common "key performance indicators" used or needed for all Kraft businesses.Lender’s Bagel Bakery- Led team in developing system for customer and product profitability reporting that led to greater profit growth.- Reduced financial month end closing from seven business days to four while improving financial reporting capability and accuracy.

Controller, Milford Operations 1988-1989Manager Budgets & Forecasts 1987-1988Accounting Manager 1986-1987

Senior Accountant - Commercial Products and Systems Division 1983-1986Senior Accountant - Consumer Tissue Division 1981-1983

Formerly Tilo Company, a roofing, siding and window manufacturer. Owned by Reynolds Aluminum

Mba, Finance

Bs, Financial Accounting

As, Business Administration