Seasoned accounting professional with over 25 years of Banking, Advertising, Direct Mail and E-Commerce experience.
Work experience
Work experience
Nov 2006 - Present
CFO
GPP Holdings
• Manage daily financial operations for 19 companies in New York, Connecticut, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
• Implemented new treasury management guidelines and departmental internal controls.
• Installed new Internal Controls in offices worldwide.
• Concluded Certified Audit in anticipation of public offering or private placement in late 2008.
• Installed Microsoft-Navision Financial software package worldwide.
Oct 2004 - Nov 2006
CFO
A Partnership
A privately held - $51MM, 32 person Advertising firm specializing in the Asian market.
CFO/FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
• Manage daily financial operations in New York and Los Angeles offices including HR, finance, lease/equipment agreements.
• Implemented new treasury management guidelines increasing annual interest income by 672%.
• Launched company’s 1st standardized policies and procedures, creating structure and control operation wide.
• Installed new Advertising/Financial software package.
May 2002 - Oct 2004
Managing Director
The Shamrock Group
The Shamrock Group is my consulting company; clients include GRW Advertising, Castor Advertising Florida Corp., Final Cut Editorial, Basic Color, Crescendo Music, Editeam, Easels Plus, CapStar Capital Corporation and 888Extramoney.com.
• Provide wide range of services including operational consulting and tax planning/preparation to individual and corporate clientele.
Jan 1996 - May 2002
VP/CFO & COO
Castor Advertising Florida Corp
A privately held - $60MM, 25 person Advertising firm - Castor Advertising was the oldest, full-service Hispanic agency in the United States until closing in 2001. Clients included Anheuser-Busch, General Motors, Kmart Corporation, Bacardi-Martini USA and Castrol Motor Oil.
• Managed daily operations in New York and Miami offices including IT, HR, finance, lease/equipment agreements, all operating, capital and client budgets and client fee contract negotiations, achieving 57.7 % increase in company gross income over 4 years.
• Negotiated unprecedented $500K fee with client on $2M spending budget and fee increases across the board.
• Improved cash flow 89.4% through creative compensation negotiations and wise investment practices.
• Upgraded legacy systems; installed Microsoft office package and introduced e-mail technology.
• Launched company’s 1st standardized policies and procedures, creating structure and control operation wide.
• Negotiated and managed annual client Event Marketing budgets for Clients.
• Developed workshops to create synergy among departments and improve workflow and communications.