Brian Alonge
Email: ********@********-*****.***
Address:
City: Thousand Oaks
State: CA
Zip: 91362
Country: USA
Phone: 805-***-****
Skill Level: Any
Salary Range:
Primary Skills/Experience:
Ambitious Chief Financial Officer with financial oversight, committed to cost-effective management of resources, quality performance and enthusiasm to grow the company.
Educational Background:
High School Dipolma from California State University, Northridge, Northridge CA 1/2001 to 6/1989 (Finance)
High School Dipolma from California State University, Northridge, Northridge CA 1/2001 to 12/2012
Job History / Details:
Executive Profile
Ambitious professional with 20 years of experience as a trusted adviser helping companies with financial analysis, reporting, auditing and strategic planning, committed to cost-effective management of resources, quality performance and an enthusiasm to help grow the company.
Skill Highlights
Attentive to detail / organized
Entrepreneurial
Highly motivated
Fiscal report generation
Strategic planning
Strong ethics and leadership
Core Accomplishments
Raised private equity and acquired the Marriott Napa Valley hotel in May 2009 for $36 million and sold the hotel in August 2011 for $72 million; two months before the market dropped 15 percentage .
Integral part of eight major portfolio refinancing and restructuring projects exceeding $1 billion in gross proceeds requiring debt and equity raises.
Restructured the company after 9/11, saving it from bankruptcy by swapping out floating rate debt for fixed rate debt, months before the Fed increased interest rates 15 times over a three year period, saving the company approx. $10 million in annual interest expense.
Instrumental in positioning the company for sale in 2006 and received $1.05 billion offer from a private REIT, at the height of the market, months before the real estate markets started to collapse.
Led the company in its efforts to reduce operating costs every year while growing from $70 million in annual revenues to over $200 million, during a 6 year period and from 8 hotels to 38 during my tenure.
Professional Experience
March 2007 to Current
Lighthouse Lodging Group, Inc. Pacific Palisades, CA
Chief Financial Officer
Co-founder of the company in 2007. Acquired 12 third party hotel management contracts, overseeing an accounting staff of 7, while responsible for all financial reporting and acquisitions of new hotels.
February 1993 to September 2007
Windsor Capital Group, Inc. Santa Monica, CA
Chief Financial Officer / V.P. of Finance
Oversaw accounting staff of sixteen; responsible for all accounting and tax matters for thirty-eight hotels, four commercial office buildings and shopping centers as well as numerous corporations and over seventy-five partnerships, generating annual revenues in excess of $330 million.
Appointed trustee of 401(k) plan for over 500 employees, signer on all bank accounts including CEO's personal accounts, totaling in excess of $75 million.
March 1989 to May 1993
PMG Properties, Inc. Woodland Hills, CA
Assistant Controller
Education
California State University, Northridge,
MBA - Business Management
California State University, Northridge,
Bachelor of Science - Finance