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 Michael offers
extensive, diverse industry experience built on a foundation of
high caliber general and financial management experience. He has
led firms through performance improvement initiatives,
turnarounds, restructurings, mergers & acquisitions, and
high-speed growth experiences as well as advising equity owners
and executives.
In addition, Michael
has served in leadership positions of well-known firms in the
consumer products, manufacturing & product development,
merchandising and licensing, specialty retailing, energy and
environmental products and services, and other business
services.
In the course of
his career, Michael has led and managed multiple turnarounds and
restructurings, led several reengineering and cost reduction
efforts, reengineered sales and service organizations, revised
channel management strategies, created and implemented unique
sourcing, inventory and procurement techniques, directed new
product development efforts, executed multi-dimensional market
analyses, designed new compensation plans and opened new markets
as part of various performance improvement efforts.
Certain of
Michael’s turnaround efforts have required repositioning core
business and operations, aggressive cost reductions and cash
flow initiatives, timely asset rationalization and divestitures
and complex bundling of M&A activities.
Michael served in
many senior executive roles including Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer,
Chief Restructuring Officer, and as Chief Financial Officer and
was a Director of a number of public and private companies.
Prior to co-founding Delray Partners, Michael was a Director
with AlixPartners and prior to that was a Partner and Managing
Director with a boutique consulting firm focused on improving
organic growth challenges within highly levered companies. He
belongs to several organizations which develop new ways for
executives to lead their firms through quantum levels of change
in exponentially faster time. |
