Manager Accounting

JOHN W. DAVIS

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Minnetonka, MN 55343

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PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

Proven leader with progressive experience in accounting, finance,

mergers/acquisitions, within professional services and manufacturing. Areas

of responsibility include public accounting experience, Comptroller, Chief

Financial Officer, as well as other executive positions. .

QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE

Strategic Planning Due Diligence Cost Containment

Turnaround & Contract Financial

Revitalization Negotiations Reporting

Budget/Variance Analysis Mergers/Acquisition Venture Capital

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Education: Indiana University, Bloomington

Bachelor of Science, School of Business

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Independent Consultant Minneapolis, MN

2007-2010

. Providing due diligence activities to private equity firm.

. Restructured high growth professional services company.

. Negotiated sale of Office Supply Company

. Board Member of Various Charitable Organizations

Pragmatek Consulting Group, Ltd. Minneapolis, MN

1995-2007

CFO/General Manager

Pragmatek is a regional consulting firm with 3 primary practice areas

including Supply Chain, ERP Implementations, and Technology Services.

Company experienced significant growth from $2.5M to over $22M in revenues

and staff increased from an initial 16 to more than 115 employees. Major

accomplishments:

. Developed internal requirement definitions of outsourced accounting

function and successfully implemented accounting and billing system,

to include hiring and training staff and establishing criteria for

month and year end closing procedures with supporting documentation.

. Established internal/external financial reporting systems and

processes to include budgeting as well as dashboard creation for

benchmarking purposes.

. Created Human Resources function and developed three tier consultant

compensation package and establishment of engagement success program,

resulting in 97% client satisfaction.

. Initiated and led strategic planning process.

. Maintained banking, outside accountants and legal relationships and

executive sponsorship of large clients to include participation of

client steering committee meetings.

. Executive sponsor for international clients to include Bosch and

Aventis.

J.W. Davis & Company, Denver, CO.

1989-1994

A regional consulting firm focused on mergers, acquisitions, and

operational improvement in the contract furniture industry. Successfully

grew revenues to over $7.5M.Conducted more than 30 transactions, ranging in

size from $750,000 to over $27M.Provided operational assistance to over 37

clients that resulted in more than $25M in annualized savings. I sold my

controlling interest to my partners. Major contributions:

. Started firm and grew revenues to $7.5M in 5 years.

. 5 turnaround situations resulted in successful acquisitions, allowing

owners to realize/exceed succession plans.

. 7 transactions exceeded $15M/each.

. Negotiated sale to European subsidiary of Steel Case.

Creative Contract/DBS Office Furnishings, BOULDER, CO.

1984-1989

PRESIDENT

Retained by the CEO/Owner to restructure his under performing

organization.Decisive action resolved in splitting

DBS, whereby the original owner headed up the dealership (DBS) and I was

named President of the newly formed manufacturing company (Creative

Contract).Utilizing independent sales reps, dealers, and the

architect/design community, successfully gained national presence and

increased revenues by over 300% from $5.4M to over $15M. Major

accomplishments:

. Successful work out situation with banks, major vendors, and IRS.

. Developed manufacturing process to allow custom orders to be produced

in a make to stock environment, reducing man hours per equivalent unit

from 32 hours to less than 7 hours.

. Successfully completed turnaround situation with original ownership

intact.

. Negotiated sale to Venture Capital Company providing significant

financial gain for shareholders.

BOULDER ENTERPRISE, INC. BOULDER, CO.

1979-1984

COMPTROLLER

Boulder Enterprise ($55M) was a wholly owned subsidiary of The New Yorker

Magazine ($400M), serving magazine clients with printing services to

include business forms/envelopes and promotional materials/invoices. All

the accounting activities were performed by the parent company. I joined

the company to establish all these functions within Boulder Enterprise.

Major contributions:

. Set up GL, AR, AP, Payroll and invoicing functions and hired staff for

the aforementioned positions.

. Established job costing system.

. Provided parent company with a full suite of financial statements

within 4 months.

. Automated general ledger, accounts receivable, and accounts payable as

well as outsourced payroll, reducing accounting staff by 2 FTE's

. Retired corporate internal debt to parent company 18 months ahead of

schedule.

. Installed accounting/finance systems for printing plant and

subscription fulfillment operations in Ireland to capture revenues

generated from European magazines.

Public Accounting Experience

Prior to 1979

Anderson, Hunter, Thomte & Kurtz (Boulder, Greeley, Ft. Collins)

1975-1979

* Senior Audit Manager

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