Management Sales

THOMAS J. LISKEY, CPA

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Naperville, IL 60565

Cell: 630-***-****

Home: 630-***-****

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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONS LEADER AT THE ENTERPRISE

LEVEL

I am a skilled operations oriented financial professional experienced in

a broad range of industries including manufacturing, food and beverage

packaging printing (flexo), publishing, distribution,offset printing and

public relations. I served as a loyal and trusted advisor to sales

oriented principals and outside directors on financial, operational, M &

A, and management matters.

EXPERIENCE

B2B CFO- Naperville, IL Oct

2009- Present

A professional services firm providing interim CFO services to small and

medium sized companies.

Partner

Independent partner with 20 year old firm that provides CFO services to

business owners. Expertise offered to clients in the areas of cash flow

management, exit strategies, budgeting/forecasting, financial systems, cost

management, lending relationships, dashboards and improved financial and

operational reporting. A comprehensive sales training program was also

completed.

FOODMINDS, LLC, Oak Brook Terrace, IL Sep

2008 - Aug 2009

A startup Food and Nutrition communications and consulting company

Chief Financial Officer/Controller

First ever finance lead for small start-up charged with building financial,

IT, and operational infrastructure. Provide strategic financial and

management guidance to science oriented principals. Originally a virtual

based company.

? Developed and executed the plan to migrate all operational and

financial systems (Peachtree and Timeslips) from the company's public

accounting firm resulting in an overall increase in the timeliness and

relevance of reporting.

? Jump started weak budgeting and forecasting approach with greater

focus an cash flows.

? Worked closely with benefits advisors on health and dental plan

design that resulted in a decrease in the company's premiums for the

upcoming year.

? Employ a positive leadership approach that creates energy and

enthusiasm in staff that, in turn, are more productive in demanding

environment.

? Developed set of operational and financial key performance indicators

(KPI's) built around the short and long term objectives of the

principals.

PRIME GRAPHICS, INC, Wood Dale, IL

1995-2008

A leading provider of innovative food and beverage packaging solutions and

decorative labels to consumer product companies.

Controller/CFO

Orchestrate the delivery of Finance, Human Resources and IT while serving

as primary liaison with banking institutions, external audit partners,

attorneys and insurance brokers. Conceive and direct all strategic planning

and benchmarking initiatives while acting as a Trusted Advisor and Member

of Board of Directors. Provide all high level IT Management functionality

eliminating the need for additional staff and providing significant cost

savings by employing technical support only when required and on an outside

basis.

Delivering Effective Cost Management:

. Cut annual external audit fees 50% by convincing lenders and board

members that a review engagement was adequate relative to a full audit.

. Mitigated the effects of rising premiums while successfully modifying the

design of health plans through changes in co-pays and benefit offerings.

. Decreased annual interest expense $250,000 and strengthened the company's

financial standing by devising and gaining acceptance of a plan to

convert subordinated shareholder debt to common equity.

Providing Effective Strategic and Tactical Direction:

. Key player in a merger with a key competitor that doubled the size of the

company. Successfully engineered and integrated the merger's financial

and operational processes.

. Provided critical guidance and advice to the firm's principal in high

level merger negotiations and conducted all necessary due diligence.

. Improved operating managers' consideration of cash flow and working

capital management in their daily decision making by implementing and

mandating the use of a weekly evocative reporting system.

. Provided a weekly look at key measures including inventory levels,

throughput, downtime and waste to reduce inventory on the floor and

deliver better receivables management.

. Prompted superior performance at all levels of the organization by

developing performance based compensation plans.

. Instituted the company's Balanced Scorecard performance management system

as a basis for communicating the company's strategy throughout the

organization

. Coordinated and led year end audits and tax return with Big 4 public

accounting firm.

PUTMAN MEDIA CO, Chicago, IL

A privately held B2B media firm with 70 years of experience serving

manufacturing communities.

Controller

Directed the company's daily financial operations while significantly

improving the quality, relevance and timeliness of financial reporting by

driving the implementation of leading edge financial and operations

software geared to the needs of this small business.

ANIXTER INTERNATIONAL, Skokie, IL

World's leading supplier of Supply Chain Services and products used to

connect voice, video, data and security systems. Billion Dollar Company.

Accounting Supervisor

? Prepared monthly financials and administered physical inventories for

billion dollar multi-plant electrical cable company.

? Promoted from senior accountant, supervised staff of 3 professionals.

? Key member of team that implemented financial reporting system

similar to ERP system.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

- Early experience as internal auditor for large Midwestern bank

Experience with multi-plant offset printer.

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS and OTHER

BA Business Administration, Winona State University, Winona, MN

Certified Public Accountant, Illinois

Partial Completion of MBA

Member, Illinois CPA Society

OTHER SKILLS AND EXPEREINCE

? Forecasting and Budgeting ? Successful

Contract negotiations

? Industry Benchmarking ? Due Diligence

? Cost Management ? Small Entity M & A

? Startups ? Balanced Scorecard

? Coaching and Mentoring ? Job Costing

? Strategic Planning ? System

Implementations

? Product Line Profitability Analysis ?

Financial and Operational Reporting

? Peachtree, Crystal Reports, Macola/Exact ?

Compensation Plan Development

? Performance Management and KPI's ? Capital

Budgeting

? Excel, Payroll, Power Point ? Inventory

Management and Control

. Familiar with Great Plains and QuickBooks

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