Name Position
Resume:
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First Name Middle Last Name Suffix Maiden Name
Richard Charles Dietz
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Work Phone & Ext Toll Free Phone Fax Phone Home Phone
Cell Phone Pager Personal Web Site Address
Secondary E-mail
Address City, State
Zip
135 Oswego Summit Lake Oswego OR 97035
Month/Year Hired Month/Year Left Total Years with Company
Jun 1984 Mar 1987 3
Office Division Title
Portland Audit Senior
Country Other Employment Details
(Previous positions, duties, or fun info)
United States
Company Name Position
PreCash, Inc. EVP & CFO
Company Web Site
http://www.precash.com
Company Size (employees) Est. Company Revenue Industry
251+ > $25,000,000 Telecommunications
Do you hold any professional certifications
(Separate with commas)
CPA, MBA
Other Current Employment Details
(Description of Position)
Member FEI, FENG, AICPA, The Oregon Forulm
Birthday Marital Status Spouse's Name Anniversary
Feb 28 Divorced
Children's Names & Ages
Ashleigh, 17; Nick,15; Chad, 11
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RCD Resume 4-09.doc
Professional Experience
February-March 2009June 2000 to January 2009Calypte Biomedical Corporation (OTC: CBMC), Portland, Oregon
Chief Operating and Financial Officer
Assisted this company in redefining its business model, getting in compliance with SEC
and SOX regs, and restructuring the balance sheet to support new business plan. Traveled
to Dubai, United Arab Emirates to raise equity funds with new investors.
PreCash, Inc., houston Texas Part of senior management team for this financial processing
company that includes business lines in the bill payment, prepaid and stored value spaces.
Revenues were $71 million in 2007 and are anticipated to top $100 million in 2008.
September 00 to August 01President and Chief Executive Officer
Named President by the board of directors when Founder, Chairman and CEO was removed from
those roles. Signed first contracts producing revenue with Sprint and Verizon in the bill
payment space. Re-organized the company to reduce spending burn and dramatically cut the
timeline to operational breakeven and then profitability. June 00 to January 09ExecutiveVice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary Responsible for all finance,
accounting, reporting, risk management, human resources, legal, regulatory, operations and
investor relations activities for the company. Areas of responsibility include over 50% of
company s overall expense budget and 65% of total employment, overseeing approximately 120
employees. Raised $34 million in private equity and recapitalized the company after market
volatility in the 2000-2001 timeframe.
Brought in first major institutional investor in 2005, Austin Ventures out of Austin,
Texas.
Oversaw establishment of international operations and I am on the Board of Directors of
PreCash International Ltd., a British Virgin Islands pass through entity, and formerly of
PreNet Europe, Ltd.
First major investment was establishment of a joint venture in the Peoples Republic of
China called China eCash. Negotiated deal on the ground in Beijing and local provinces
with local joint venture management reporting to me. Established first formal operations
group in the company which entails logistics operations (card and POS inventory
management, epin management), call center operations, merchant services operations and
risk and fraud management. August 94 to June 00Gardenburger, Inc
. (Nasdaq:
GBUR),
Portland, Oregon August 94 to June 00Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Managed all financial, accounting, treasury, information technology, human resources,
legal and investor relations areas. Raised over $100 million in debt and equity capital to
support rapid growth and retail expansion both nationally and internationally in the
European Union. Was the company s public face to shareholders, investors and analysts
attending numerous industry conferences and appearing on national TV broadcasts for the
Dow Jones and Bloomberg New Service, and running quarterly press release briefings with
analysts and others as part of routine and non-routine public company disclosures. Managed
company s $10 million-plus investment portfolio.
Oversaw computer integrated business project which tied in all company systems during the
setup of a state-of-the-art new production facility in the Midwest to accommodate rapid
growth and expansion into retail. May 93 to August 94Fine Arts Graphics
(now a part of
imagex.com),
Tualatin, Oregon May 93 to August 94Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer Hired as turn-around expert to re-organize and re-capitalize a troubled company
that was saddled with high debt, low top-line growth and several years of operating
losses.
Re-structured the company s balance sheet by working pro-actively with bankers and major
vendors to reduce cash outflow burden to the company. Re-negotiated debt instruments,
providing longer payment cycles and reduced interest rates.
Created automated pricing model which focused on profit maximization and trained sales
and operations teams in use and application of the model.
Company was profitable in 1993 for first time in several years and was on track for
increased profitability in 1994 when I left to join Gardenburger.
December 83 to May 93Arthur Andersen LLP, Omark Industries, Wyatt Software, Portland,
Oregon December 83 to May 93 Worked for a variety of firms, starting in public accounting
to earn a CPA then moving into private industry which was my long-term career choice. At
Arthur Andersen worked mainly on large public companies in the manufacturing and financial
services industries. At Omark was the Financial Controller for a world-wide organization
that had financial operations in the US, Canada, Western Europe, Brazil and the Asia-
Pacific region. In all had 50 employees reporting to me in 9 countries. Lived in Brazil
for approx. 6 months in late 80 s helping to turn around an operation that was battered by
large currency devaluations and with funds frozen in Sao Paulo banks. Negotiated
repatriation of frozen funds and re-engineered the operation s balance sheet to minimize
exposure of monetary assets and liabilities to currency swings and arbitrage.
Education/Other 1995-1996Harvard Business School
Various Executive Education Programs1989-1991 University of Oregon
Executive MBA 1980-1984 Oregon State University
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration
Concentration in Finance and Computer Science Other Named CFO of the Year in the City of
Houston by the Houston Business Journal for emerging private companies, May 2008.
Richard C. Dietz
CPA, MBA
135 Oswego Summit, Lake Oswego, OR 97035
503-***-**** Mobile
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