Project Electrical

TERRY R. KEES

**** ******** **** * Liberty, MO **068

Cell: 816-***-**** * e-mail: ***********@*****.***

Summary of Qualifications

• CEO, CFO, VP-Finance

• Turnarounds, transitional growth

• Manufacturing, distribution and service sectors

• Renewable energy project development

• Hands-on, operationally-oriented. Readily make the link between operations and strategy

• Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures

• Collaborative business partner

• Innovative, best-practice team-builder and leader

• Lead by effecting positive change through others

• Collaborative, value-adding business partner

• International

• Capital formation, IPOs, SEC-reporting

• Systems conversions and upgrades

• Support the Company’s tactical and strategic initiatives by developing relevant KPIs that provide enterprise-wide incisive value and insights.

• Effective written and verbal communicator

• Professional businessman, not professional “numbers cop” accountant

Professional Experience

THIRD QUADRANT ENERGY, LLC (ALBANY, NY) 2011 – 2012

Chief Financial Officer

• Accepting the former President of CG Power Solutions USA Inc’s offer to accompany him onto his next venture, was responsible for all aspects of this developer of renewable energy projects tax, financial and administrative affairs including project acquisition, modeling, tax and financial structuring, Accounting, Human Resources, audit and bank relationships and insurance.

• Participated in acquiring a 20MW (AC) solar project as well as arranging sponsor/tax equity, construction and permanent debt financing and assuring project benefited from all available Federal and State tax credits.

CG POWER SOLUTIONS USA INC (ALBANY, NY) CFO

CG POWER SYSTEMS USA INC (WASHINGTON, MO) AMERICAS REGIONAL CFO 2009 - 2011

• CG Power Solutions USA Inc (f/k/a MSE Power Systems, Inc.) is a $100 million developer and turnkey engineering design firm (Engineering, Procurement and Construction ("EPC") as well as Balance of Plant ("BoP") of alternative energy (e.g., wind, solar, biomass, etc.) projects and electrical substations.

• CG Power Systems USA Inc (f/k/a Pauwels Transformers, Inc.) is a $400 million manufacturer of electrical transformers with business units in North, Central and South America.

• Was a principle participant in devising and commencing project (and Renewable Energy Credits "RECs") financing and structuring initiatives with equity and debt partners that eventually led to the construction and successful/profitable sale of a U.S. utility-scale wind development (60MW).

• Revised hedge accounting practices at a Canadian business unit that stabilized this formerly volatile earnings element (e.g., as much as $1 million monthly gains/losses with neither “root cause” analysis nor reasonable predictability).

• Principle in performing, negotiating and consummating M&A activities.

• Recommended and led the effort to design and implement an Americas-wide cash management system that significantly improved operational cash-flow and resulted in estimated annual cost savings approximating $1 million.

MERIDIAN AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, INC. * KANSAS CITY, KS 2008 - 2008

Controller (Contract)

• Responsible for all monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting requirements including financial statement preparation, variance analysis, budgets, capital expenditures and forecasting for this $25 million (1 direct-report) supplier to the Big 3 auto manufacturers of class A body panels.

ROSENS ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT CO. * PICO RIVERA, CA 2003 - 2008

Chief Financial Officer

• Principal in developing and implementing comprehensive, best-practices strategy and tactics that successfully re-engineered this privately-held, mid-sized (7 direct-reports) distributor of commercial electrical products.

• Successfully turned-around this unprofitable, negative cash-flow Company into reporting four successive years of net income and positive cash-flow.

• Successfully located and placed take-out financing of multi-million dollar prior bank debt.

• Reduced costs approximately $1 million by revising, pro-actively bidding and managing the Company’s property and casualty, workers’ compensation and group health insurance policies.

KEES EXECUTIVE CONSULTING * HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA 1997 - 2003

Independent Consultant

• Specialized in providing strategic accounting and financial planning consulting services to emerging and turn-around organizations including basic to advanced accounting, financial planning, risk management, cost containment, profit enhancement and human resource issues.

• Engagements included more narrowly focused forensic accounting, mergers and acquisitions and risk management assignments as well as broader roles as the interim CFO for a turn-around distributor of security devices, a manufacturer of electric bus boots and bus bar and an importer/distributor of recording media (primarily disk drives and tape devices). Clients’ annual revenues ranged from $5 million to $50 million.

• Successfully managed each turnaround engagement from its former unprofitable, negative cash-flow concern to a profitable, positive cash-flow organization.

GENERAL HARDWARE CORPORATION * SANTA ANA, CA 1992 - 1997

VP – Finance

• Reported to the President at this $95 million (9 direct-reports), privately-held distributor of computer accessories.

• Managed a simultaneous hardware upgrade and software conversion that improved computer up-time 38%.

• Developed product line financial reporting that not only improved accuracy and visibility of profitability by individual products and product lines but also resulted in overall gross profits increasing nine percentage points.

• Devised and initiated revised credit and collection procedures that increased cash flow by approximately $1.5 million their first year and four consecutive year-to-year favorable decreases in Days Sales Outstanding (“DSO”).

• Increased profits by approximately $0.5 million by redesigning and negotiating alternative group medical, property and casualty and workers’ compensation insurance policies (including self-funding). Also designed, selected and administered the Company’s 401(k) and Section 125 Cafeteria Plans.

SOLDER STATION ONE, INC * SANTA ANA, CA 1989 - 1991

President & CEO

• Reported to the owners at this $250 million (13 direct-reports), privately-held provider of hot air solder leveling and solder masking services to printed circuit board manufacturers.

CUBIX CORPORATION * CARSON CITY, NV 1988 - 1989

VP - Finance

• Reported to the two owners at this $170 million (9 direct-reports), privately-held, international manufacturer of computer accessories.

MICRO GENERAL CORPORATION * SANTA ANA, CA 1982 - 1988

Chief Financial Officer

• Reported to the President at this $155 (8 direct-reports) million publicly-held manufacturer of postal and parcel shipping systems.

FILTROL CORPORATION, CATALYSTS DIVISION * LOS ANGELES, CA 1980 - 1982

Controller

MATTEL, INC. * EL SEGUNDO, CA 1975 - 1980

• Manager – Worldwide Corporate Consolidations,

• Assistant Controller – Metaframe Corporation (E. Patterson, NJ),

• Senior Financial Analyst and Senior Internal Auditor

DELOITTE & TOUCHE * COSTA MESA, CA 1973 - 1975

Staff Auditer

Education/Other

UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND * PORTLAND, OR

Bachelor of Business Administration (Accounting Major)

• Graduated magna cum laude; played basketball

• Can speak, read and write Spanish; coached girls “club” travel fast-pitch softball for 12 years.

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