ANDREW WRUBEL

adfadz@r.postjobfree.com; San Diego, CA, 858-***-****

CAREER SUMMARY

CEO/Managing Director/Chairman/COO/CFO accountable for both private and publicly held international manufacturing and service companies. Business executive with strong sales/marketing/financial/operations/technology/manufacturing orientation and over 20 years experience leading high growth companies and turnarounds, from start-ups, run P&L for over $150M and growing EBITDA in excess of 10%. Industries include: IT, e-commerce, medical devices, aerospace, automotive, electronics, hardware, software, wireless, and data storage. Run international operations with branch offices in France, UK and Germany. Coordinated major projects for US subsidiaries with headquarters in Germany. Experience outsourcing to Asia and Mexico. Major customers and client’s customers included Airbus, Boeing, Schlumberger, Gulfstream, Bell Helicopters, Net-Jets, Hitachi- Maxell, Raytheon, BASF, HP, IBM, L3 Com and FedEx. Core Strengths include:

Strategic planning and execution

Strong foundation as CFO

Strong foundation as CTO

Turnaround underperforming businesses

Building and leading high performing teams

International businesses with Global sales and marketing

Growing revenues, cash flow and profitability

SEC compliance

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Have run P&L of over $150M and growing EBITDA in excess of 10%.

Delivered profitability in four months to company, which was losing money for 20 consecutive years.

Expanded sales by 500% and achieved profitability for the first time in company’s history.

M&A and Raised and negotiated terms for $25M in capital and established $4M line of credit.

Founded Gigatek M. S. Inc., secured $ 5M in funding, expanded the company to 250 employees with $93M in revenue, sold products through offices in the US, France, UK and Germany to customers including BASF, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Fuji, Iomega, Anacomp, Memorex, Tandberg and Seagate. Successfully negotiated sale to affiliate of Samsung.

Increased company’s stock price 34 times in three years.

Increased customer base by 800% through implementing major diversification to new and growing markets. Customers included Schlumberger, Raytheon, L3 Communications, Conexant and Nanogen.

Eliminated over $50M in debt by directing a conversion to equity of $30M, repaying $6M, and liquidating unprofitable subsidiaries in Singapore.

CAREER HISTORY

Private Equity Fund

Operating Partner

Private Equity Owned

CEO, 2017 – Present

The company designs, manufactures, sells and installs LPG (liquid propane gas) and compressed natural gas (CNG) conversion systems to vehicle fleets to replace gasoline fuel systems or supplement Electric Hybrids, gasoline and diesel fuel systems to customers in US, Canada, Mexico and Latin America markets.

Major customers service people transportation, goods/package delivery and service vehicle fleets. Major fleet customers include UPS, Yale University, Pepsi, Yellow Cab Taxi, Metro Cars Limousines, airport shuttles, schools shuttles and many others.

Private Equity Owned

President/CEO/Chairman, 2012 -2017

The company provides design and network deployment services in IT, Internet and wireless communication to customers in Southwest US markets. Major customers serviced in medical, financial, education and government sectors. Partners include Cisco, HP, Xirrus, Mimio and others.

Aerospace Company,

Co-CEO & Co-President, Board Member, 2009 - 2012

Responsible for the company developing, manufacturing and selling proprietary products to aerospace industry. Customers include

aircraft manufactures, commercial airlines, air cargo airlines, corporate jet operators and others. Some of the customers were Airbus, Gulfstream,

jetBlue, FedEx, Bombardier, NetJets, UPS.

PRIVATE EQUITY FUND,

Managing Director, 2007- 2009

Eight-billion private equity fund involved in acquisitions and turnaround of under-performing companies.

Technology sector included following companies: eMag Solutions, Rand McNally, Intera Group and LakeWest.

I was responsible for the technology portfolio companies with four (4) CEO’s reporting to me. These companies are involved in Software

and Services, Wireless Products and Services, eDiscovery Software and Services, Development, Manufacturing and Sales of Digital and

other Consumer Products, eCommerce, Software Hardware Solutions, Enterprise Software, and other areas. Had P&L of over $100M and

growing EBITDA.

RAND McNALLY,

CEO & President, Board Member, 2008-2009

Responsible for this largest map maker in the world and transforming it into a Digital Map Products Company by developing and offering first in

the industry Global Positioning Systems (GPS) for large commercial tracks and RV’s (Track Navigation Devices -TND), various software

products, and e-commerce.

NTN COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

COO/CFO, 2005 - 2007

Company developing software for interactive game platforms, broadcasting advertising and interactive games utilizing various platforms, including proprietary iTV Network, wireless cell phones, cable TV, satellite TV, personal computers and in the software and hardware products and services.

Major customers include Domino’s Pizza, TGI Fridays and other Fast Food Restaurants Chains. The company has five locations in the U.S., Canada and Europe and employs over 200 people. NTN Wireless & POS Software Solutions develops, manufactures, markets and sells wireless devices and software solutions to the hospitality and healthcare industries. Expanded sales and took the company from a 20-year of consecutive losses to profitability. Reduced operating costs and increased sales resulting in improvements on the bottom line by $1,350,000 from Q2 to Q3 2005, producing a profit for the first time ever (in over 20 years). Earned positive cash flow for five consecutive quarters (Q3 ’05, Q4 ’05, Q1 ’06, Q2 ’06 and Q3’06).

VIVA! VISION/INETCAM INC., 2002 - 2005

CEO, CFO, President and Member of Board of Directors

A venture capital founded software start-up company developing and manufacturing video, data and audio streaming software platform solutions with high degrees of bandwidth-efficiency for various network applications with capability to transmit over cell phone networks, wireless Wi-Fi and wired networks. Produced and patented device independent software platforms with the lowest bandwidth and storage, dynamic bit rate control, low system cost, increased system flexibility, and simplified installation. Expanded company revenue by selling and partnering with security, hospitality, banking and health industries, as well as OEM’s like Qualcomm, Panasonic, Siemens, Toshiba, Matsushita/Akme, and telephone/internet carriers like Verizon, Sprint and others. Achieved profit for the first time in company history.

MPI, Inc., 1997 – 2002

CEO, President and Chairman of the Board

P&L accountability for all aspects of this electronic components company, which specializes in the design, manufacture, testing, and sale of electronic products to OEM companies mainly for high speed internet, semiconductor test equipment for INTEL Pentium chips, medical devices for healthcare and wireless applications.

Negotiated sales contracts with Digirad, Nanogen, Schlumberger, Microsource and Micro Networks. Obtained Virtual Factory Qualification from Intel Corp. and supplier approval status from Digital Equipment (Compaq/HP) and National Semiconductor.

Forged vital business partner relationships with Motorola and Texas Instruments.

Achieved profitability within 18 months with the company, which incurred losses for prior 12 years.

GIGATEK M. S., INC., 1989 – 1996

CEO, President, Chairman & Founder

As the company founder, conceived and realized a vision to establish a company that provided a one to one hard disc data backup on a single QIC computer tape cartridge. Directed the effort to enable Gigabyte capacity on a single QIC cartridge, increasing storage capacity from 10MB to 10GB.

Developed the business plan and secured $5M in funding to establish a computer tape cartridge manufacturing company.

In five years, grew company to become the world’s second largest manufacturer of QIC computer tape cartridges, offering magnetic and optical data storage products, with an annual run rate of $45M.

Established a customer base consisting of distribution, retail, OEM, and Fortune 500 companies in US, European, and Asian markets.

Negotiated and signed multi-million dollar contracts with major computer manufacturers, and retail customers, including HP, IBM, BASF, Fuji, Hitachi-Maxell, Memorex, TDK, CompUSA, and others.

Successfully negotiated the company acquisition by Samsung affiliate.

Opened European branches in Germany, France, and UK, and established manufacturing lines in the US, Mexico, China and Korea.

Achieved profitable sales of $93M against industry leaders such as 3M, Sony, and Mitsubishi/Verbatim.

CARLISLE MPG INC., 1985 – 1988

CTO & Vice President of Technology

Directed and led computer data storage technology departments at several different locations of the Carlisle companies with $140M in revenue.

As Vice President of Engineering, directed the company’s total engineering operations: managed research and development, manufacturing engineering, process and product engineering.

Prior to 1985, held positions at Texas Instruments, BASF and MIT; as Senior Engineering Manager, International Projects Manager, Marketing Product Manager, Project Manager, and Research Assistant. Major customers included Boeing, Rockwell International, Ford, and GM.

EDUCATION & AFFILIATIONS

Bachelor of Science, Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Warsaw

MBA Program, Sloan School of Management (MIT)

Ph.D. Program and Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Ph.D. thesis sponsored by General Motors

Multilingual: English, Polish, German, and Russian.

University of California San Diego – CONNECT, MIT Enterprise Forum, MIT Club of San Diego, YPO, Young Presidents’ Organization- Former member

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