RENE NORTH

Finance and Operations Executive for Growing Businesses

Scotts Valley, CA

ac6p1o@r.postjobfree.com

831-***-****

Data-Driven Strategist for Small to Medium Enterprises

Hands-On Leader, Achieving Success Through Commitment and Collaboration

Drives business evolution, establishing robust systems that solidify infrastructure to support scaling operations. Provides stakeholders – from Board to floor – with insights into business operations through comprehensive reporting and recommendations.

Builds companies with analytical, data-driven strategy – addressing a wide range of challenges, by combining technical and market intelligence. Identify tomorrow’s technology, build teams and partnerships to accelerate go-to-market cycle, and build campaigns that inspire customers.

Embraces a cross-functional leadership style that promotes a “stronger together” team culture to remove the barriers to effective and creative problem resolution and revenue growth.

Gets in, gets to work and grows businesses, building top performing teams to take products to market, drive profitability, and overcome obstacles. Leads by example to motivate staff to achieve exceptional performance.

Prioritizes customers and staff by promoting a corporate culture that values productivity, customer service excellence, work-life-balance, and personal and professional growth for individuals and teams.

Executive Strengths

Team Building & Leadership • Partner to CEO • Financial Oversight • Strategic Planning & Execution • Information and Operations Management • Business Process Re-engineering • Infrastructure Development • Customer/Client Management • Investor Relations • Financial Planning & Analysis • Strategic Partnership Development • Revenue & Profit Optimization • Contract Negotiation & Legal • Accounting & Financial Controls • M & A Due Diligence • Risk Management • IT Implementation & Integration • Modeling

20+ Years of Employee & Customer-Centric Leadership

Digital Delivery Networks, Inc. (DDNi) Scotts Valley, CA 2004-2018

DDNi built a user experience solution for computer manufacturers and suppliers with a complete lifecycle management platform. The technology enables customized user interface design, network infrastructure, world class partnerships, marketing, and data collection. The analyzed data drives a personalized user experience through a narrowcast communication channel, and delivers incremental revenue and profit. This platform was deployed by Lenovo, Sony, Samsung, Intel, and others to promote products and services from dozens of brand names and advertisers.

CFO / COO, co-founder

Led 26-member team of developers, IT, accounting, QA, project managers, and consultants, driving continuous operational improvements, building a global infrastructure, and tracking overall corporate performance at Board level. Built all financial processes and controls, including financial planning, financial modeling, ROI analytics, KPI dashboards, Board financial reporting package. Integrally involved in defining sales and business development strategies, assessing impact of industry changes to product roadmap and revenue forecasting.

Grew transaction profit from a loss in 2007 to 68% margin in 2012. Created scalable operations to sustain partner growth while exceeding company expansion forecasts.

Negotiated managed hosting contracts to cut $2.3 million from capital spending budget.

Increased affiliate coverage for products and services from 18% (2005) to 86%+ (2014) through the development and implementation of strategic initiatives to acquire specific partnerships.

Increased operation efficiency YOY (-20%) through consistent reductions in cost per order and the execution of process and system improvements.

Fostered an ethical and compliant organization, meeting multiple state, U.S., and international government agency regulations for ecommerce, tax, advertising, privacy, and data security policies.

Defined standard processes and systems for Marketing and Business Development.

Completed $28 million in financing (4 rounds of venture capital and 2 rounds of debt).

DigitalSquare, Inc. Scotts Valley, CA 1997-2004

Privately financed, consumer-oriented e-commerce startup. The technology was an OEM-customized Microsoft Windows startup sequence, offering alternative world class partnerships, tied to a private network infrastructure. Preloaded on a new PC, the user experience collected user data, included a fully integrated ecommerce engine, and delivered incremental revenue and profit throughout the lifecycle of each device.

Chief Financial Officer, Managing Director

Hand-selected by the CEO as one of the first hires of this private software company. As the financial leader, worked to develop the financial forecasting models and worked with the CEO to secure financing. Built the accounting, financial and administrative functions from the ground up, and oversaw Finance, IT, HR, Legal, Investor Relations, and Facilities. Drove a financial system conversion from Quickbooks to MS Dynamics after expanding internationally.

Identified areas of over-redundancy in server architecture and worked with IT operations team to streamlined group capital expenditures by 44% within 120 days

Improved partner revenue modeling accuracy to 5% variance

Managing Director of UK-entity

Completed multiple rounds of capital raise (equity and debt)

Early Career

Formative years as a Financial Analyst at Seagate Technology instilled deep understanding of the role of sales and marketing, particularly within the context of a $2 billion+ publicly-held manufacturing and distribution organization. Earned promotions from Financial Analyst role to Controller within several years based on proficiency in cost accounting, financial system implementation, metric development, and cost control systems. Years with both public and startup enterprises in hardware, software, and semiconductor sectors shaped executive strategies and additional skills ranging from M & A due diligence, capital management, infrastructure implementation, contract negotiation, and strategic market analysis.

Education

MBA/Finance Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, Scotland (currently enrolled)

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration/Finance Northeastern University Boston, MA

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science State University of New York Potsdam, NY

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