Management Manager
Resume:
Gerald Office
Email: *********@********.***
Address: *** ******** **
City: Falmouth
State: MA
Zip: 02540
Country: USA
Phone: 508-***-****
Skill Level: Senior
Salary Range: 50
Willing to Relocate
Primary Skills/Experience:
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Educational Background:
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Job History / Details:
Gerald S. Office, Jr.
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CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER /ATTORNEY
Senior business executive with proven track record of development and management of consumer-driven businesses, ranging from start-ups and IPOaiis, to all facets of publicly-
held corporate activity, with consistently profitable bottom line results.
EXECUTIVE ABILITIES
Management: Big-picture perspective and demonstrated ability to lead teams and organizations to goal achievement. Effective manager with highly developed negotiation skills (both domestic and international) and experience cultivating strategic business partnerships. Equally strong in strategic planning and financial management.
Marketing: Proven ability to recognize and capitalize on market trends and assume bottom-line responsibility for strategic planning, pricing, marketing, and forecasting. Broad knowledge of all marketing disciplines, including research, promotions, e-commerce and advertising.
Leadership / Team Building: Decisive leader with extensive experience recruiting and hiring sales teams, developing talent, and creating training programs to achieve organizational objectives.
Communication: Persuasive communicator and negotiator with well-developed presentation and negotiation skills. Able to develop productive relationships with colleagues, customers, and staff at all levels.
EXPERIENCE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
SOUPER SALAD, INC. - 2007-2012-Board of Directors
Founded in 1978, San Antonio-based Souper Salad, Inc. operates two successful restaurant concepts under the SouperSalad and Grandyaiis brands. The company currently operates 151 locations in 17 states, including 85 company-owned stores and 66 franchise-owned and operated stores under its Souper Brands system.
The company was jointly owned by Summit Investment Management and Sun Capital Partners.
GLOCAP ADVISORS, Senior Advisor, New York, NY -2004-2006
Glocap Advisors is a boutique investment banking firm assisting companies in raising private equity and mezzanine capital, advising on mergers & acquisitions (buy and sell-side assignments), joint ventures, recapitalizations and restructurings, and providing fairness opinions. Glocap Advisors is headquartered in New York City with additional offices in Baltimore and Los Angeles.
TULLY & HOLLAND, Senior Advisor, Wellesley, MA -1998-2007
Investment bank that provides sophisticated corporate finance advisory services to consumer product companies with special emphasis on food companies, direct mail marketers and catalogers, consumer product manufacturers/distributors and retailers.
PRIVATE INVESTOR. 1987-PRESENT
PONDEROSA, INC., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dayton, OH 1968-1987
Co-founded, led and managed the growth of the Company to become the largest steakhouse chain in the U.S. with over 700 restaurants, including locations in the UK and Far East. Took the Company public in 1968. It was listed on the NYSE in 1972.
PONDEROSA, INC.
Selected Achievements:
ai Spearheaded rapid growth of chain to over 700 restaurants during tenure.
ai Increased annual system-wide revenues from less than $3 million to over $800 million
in nineteen (19) years.
ai Successfully added an International unit to tap growth opportunity in Europe and the
Far East.
ai Conceived and implemented innovative marketing and franchising programs.
ai Pioneered and operated a state-of-the-art portion control meat plant and distribution facility.
ai Acquired over $200 million in growth capital via numerous public and private financing.
ai Mentored numerous industry executives, who became CEOaiis of major restaurant chains.
Assistant Professor Business Management and Accounting University of Dayton (Ohio) 1967-1969
EDUCATION
Juris Doctor, The Ohio State University College of Law, Columbus, OH
Summa Cum Laude (1st in class); Editor-in-Chief, The Ohio State Law Journal
Bachelor Business Administration, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Majored in Business; Graduated aiiWith Distinction.aii
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Boards of Directors:
ai Ponderosa, Inc., 1968-1987 (NYSE)
ai Bank One Dayton, 1978-1991 (OTC)
Boards of Directors:
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ai MAPI, Inc., 1972-1976 (OTC)
ai ChemLawn Corp., 1982-1987 (OTC)
ai National Restaurant Association, 1974-1980
ai United States Air Force Museum Foundation, 1976-1994
ai University of Dayton, 1980-1989
ai New York University Center for Food and Hotel Management, 1977-1987
Professional Honors:
ai Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT 1979
ai MUFSO Man of the Year Award (Multi-Unit Food Service Operator of the Year)
National award sponsored by Nationaiis Restaurant News, 1978
ai Order of the Coif, 1967
ai Beta Gamma Sigma
ai Member of the Bar: State of Ohio; Federal, Southern District of Ohio
Lectures and Speaking Engagements:
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ai University of Michigan Graduate School of Business
ai Harvard University
ai New York University
ai Carnegie Mellon University
ai Purdue University
ai Numerous presentations before The New York Society of Securities Analysts
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