Supply Chain Customer Service

FRANK H. SCHNEIDER III, MBA

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EXECUTIVE PROFILE

Results-driven senior executive with a strategic business focus. Recognized for having strong enterprise-wide business knowledge and significant capabilities in financial management, strategic IT planning and execution, and leadership of the entire supply chain.

GTF APPAREL, LLC. 2014 – Present

Chief Financial Officer

Co-founder of a base-layer apparel business. Collaborate with GTF team to develop a commercial growth strategy. Developed economic framework for the business. Involved in or lead all communications with investors. Drive supply chain strategy. Drive metrics, enforce discipline in early stage spend and working capital management for private equity investors. Leverage small infrastructure to drive profitability early. Lead and inspire staff. Negotiate with customers, suppliers and investors.

JOCKEY INTERNATIONAL, INC. 1999 – 2014

A private, 3,000-employee global marketer of apparel products and services marketed and distributed in over 130 countries. Jockey operates over 100 retail stores throughout the U.S. and Europe.

EVP, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer 2005 – 2014

(Interim) EVP, Operations and Sourcing (2007 – 2011)

Lead Jockey’s finance function, including financial analysis, reporting, decision support, accounting, global tax and treasury management. Lead IT function, including the definition, execution and management of company-wide IT system efforts. Drove strategic definition and leadership of supply chain (interim 2007-2011), including manufacturing, operations (planning, demand forecasting and customer service), distribution and logistics.

Established first Financial Planning and Analysis department for the business. Drove development of effective and impactful financial reporting enterprise-wide.

Led speed-to-market product development efforts, reducing time from product concept to distribution center from 86 weeks to 50 weeks.

Led ambitious effort to transition the supply chain from 50% internally manufactured/50% outsourced to 100% outsourced in 18 months, resulting in $12 to $17 million in annual cost savings.

Spearheaded creation of a lean infrastructure to support the business. Impact spanned Sourcing, Supply Chain, Finance, IT, Legal, HR, Compliance and Product Development, functions and implemented without disruption to the business. Overall cost savings $5 million-plus.

Leading the push toward working capital efficiency through inventory reduction and accounts payable management. Inventory reduction efforts have improved cash flow by $25 million to date.

Member of Board of Directors 2001-2014. Chair of Benefits Committee; Member of Compensation Committee, Finance Committee and Audit Committee.

Directed the Marketing team from July 2005 to January 2007.

SVP, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer 2000 – 2005

Rationalized and exited 2 marginally profitable licensed apparel businesses.

Led acquisition and transition of Jockey businesses in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Benelux, and Eastern Europe from licensed to owned operations.

Led the development and startup of Jockey’s direct-sales business, “Jockey Person to Person.”

Developed and Implemented Jockey’s first quarterly strategic and financial planning process across entire business.

Led team that drove a +20% reduction in inventory while maintaining better than 98% shipping performance to the SKU (style-size-color) level.

Led implementation of the following systems (2000-2005):

Product Lifecycle Management and Calendar – full company rollout by end of 09

Forecasting – full company rollout

Full Jockey ERP rollout in Europe and Asia – web-enabled

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Capacity Planning

Warehouse Management system upgrade

Contractor order management and visibility

Ecommerce site, version 2.0, Intranet, Extranet rollout

Retail POS and back-end processing system upgrades (Merchandise management, assortment planning, inventory, carton consolidation, data warehousing)

Retail labor scheduling and traffic counters; always-on retail store communications

Full-blown ERP system to support “Jockey Person to Person” business

Led closure 9 US-and Caribbean-based production facilities.

Spearheaded rollout of a comprehensive, business-driven IT planning, reporting and accountability process.

Vice President, MIS and Chief Information Officer 1999 – 2000

Transformed an underperforming function, reversing dysfunctional intra-departmental and IT-client relationships. Over next 6 months built trust, credibility and respect among department associates and between IT and clients.

Created first IT Steering Committee designed to complete rollout of ERP system, increased scope over 1st year.

Led rollout of following systems in 1st 12 months:

Final phase of ERP system with multi-plant manufacturing, production planning and production scheduling (project began in 1994).

CAD-enabled design systems.

Sales-force order status and inventory-availability systems.

Jockey.com consumer order website, version 1.0.

Triversity Retail POS system

JDA MMS, Retail Ideas, Arthur Planning retail systems

VF CORPORATION 1995 – 1999

An $11 billion, 58,000-employee leader in branded lifestyle apparel including jeanswear, outdoor products, image apparel, sportswear and contemporary apparel brands.

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, VF Latin America 1997 – 1999

Reported to President, VF Latin America. Direct reports: Finance Director(s), VF Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, and Accounting Manager, VF Latin America. Responsible for IT and Financial systems, processes, personnel and controls for the Latin American region of VF Jeanswear - Central and South America.

Created a new operating division from licensed-only territories in the region.

Led the acquisition and transition of licensed territories to owned operations for Wrangler, Lee and non-VF branded jeans in Argentina, Brazil and Chile.

Set up capital, organizational and reporting structure for entire region; led cultural change from disparate, local, largely informal businesses to multi-national consolidated business.

Established solid, reliable regional IT infrastructure through hiring of local talent and expertise, and investing appropriate capital in software, communications and infrastructure. Facilitated use of VF systems expertise where appropriate.

Director, Information Systems, Jantzen, Inc., Division of VF Corp. 1995 – 1997

Manager, Internal Audit 1995

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Employed by bath and shower enclosure manufacturer ALUMAX INC. as Acting Director, Internal Audit (1994), Internal Audit Manager (1992-93) and Senior Internal Auditor (1990-92). Served with COCA-COLA ENTERPRISES, INC. as Senior Financial Analyst (1988-90) and Financial Analyst (1987).

Began career with global consulting firm ARTHUR ANDERSEN, INC. as Staff Consultant (1985-87), then promoted to Senior Consultant in 1987.

EDUCATION

MBA, Finance Emory University, Atlanta, GA 1985

BA, Economics Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 1983

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