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RODD MANN

*** **** ***** #***, ********, CA 53186 • 714-***-**** • adxry2@r.postjobfree.com EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT PROFILE

Fiscal Management / Operations / Staff Development Accomplished executive with demonstrated leadership abilities and a record of success providing financial and operations oversight for manufacturing companies. Analytical financial skills and solid operational experience. Experience in accounting, cost accounting, financial planning, corporate controller, and audit through half my career, with the other half working in quality, logistics, manufacturing operations, customer fulfillment and bringing up and shutting down offshore plants.

Built world-class finance and manufacturing teams in the U.S. and offshore plants throughout Asia Pacific. Core competencies include:

• Financial Forecasting & Planning

• Capital Expense Budgeting

• Performance Metrics

• Cash Flow Management

• Accounting Policies & Standards

• Consolidated Financial Reporting

• Cost Containment Strategies

• Acquisition Financing & Integration

• Currency Hedging & Management

• Sarbanes-Oxley Initiatives

• Cost Accounting / Resource Allocation

• Six Sigma / Lean Manufacturing

Techniques

• Inventory Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT, May 2014 to PRESENT

SOUTHERN CA until 2022

Selected Accomplishments:

• Wrote Navigating the New Normal, a textbook aimed at teaching fundamentals of finance and investing primarily to Gen Z and Millennials during the pandemic.

• Consulted primarily for charities, traveling to Hanoi, Vietnam to support a retired doctor providing free prosthetics: https://unireach.org.

• Taught Finance to juniors at Concordia University for 4 years and took coursework in Concordia’s first EdD cohort.

CORPORATE CONTROLLER, May 2006 to May 2014

KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY INC, Fountain Valley, CA

Kingston is a private multi-national manufacturing company in the solid state memory business including DRAM modules and Flash memory products. I reported to the two Taiwanese owners. Background:

• Company grew from $3 billion to $6 billion during my tenure as Corporate Controller RODD MANN

Professional Experience Continued

• As a private business, the company had virtually no policies and procedures and ran each subsidiary as an independent company

• Apart from statutory audits around the world, Kingston had never conducted a consolidated audit

• Finance team was run by a predecessor without benefit of a CPA and lacking financial accounting education and background – team consisted of many long-time employees without accounting experience outside of Kingston.

• Financial close took an entire month, the general ledger had many old assets of questionable value, ad hoc reports were being emailed out to management without any financial bridge or reconciliation to the overall financial results of the company

• Necessary financial information into legal, tax and treasury was in disrepair Selected Accomplishments:

• Replaced more than half the headcount, while reducing headcount overall. Newly hired CPA’s, chartered accountants and individuals with Master’s degrees in accounting. Overall finance payroll declined meanwhile, primarily as a result of headcount reduction.

• Personally wrote at new policies and procedures around revenue recognition, warranties, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, fixed assets, foreign exchange, inventory valuation and allowance for bad debt.

• Instituted monthly financial controllers’ meetings around the globe to review financial results. In addition, we conducted an annual balance sheet review at our China factories to thoroughly understand our risks and to standardize best accounting practices for all sites.

• Conducted the first successful companywide global audit (Deloitte) for the year ended 2006 and subsequent years all with clean, unqualified opinions.

• Have developed legal entity financial information useful to tax, treasury, banks and legal – in the formats and at the frequency required.

• Have participated and led major projects including plant closings, business carve-outs, key employee bonus plans, and new contracts with third party suppliers and other stakeholders. VICE PRESIDENT / CORPORATE CONTROLLER, 2004 – 2005 SUNRISE MEDICAL, INC., Carlsbad, CA

Provided finance and operational leadership for operations in the Americas and Europe of this medical products manufacturer with annual revenue of $650M. Oversaw quarterly and annual consolidated financial reporting for the entire company. Charged with delivering technical accounting leadership and interpreting SEC and GAAP treatment of acquisitions, including fair value accounting and purchase accounting pronouncements. Develop operational metrics, accounting policies, procedures and standards to support acquisitions and business integration worldwide.

Selected accomplishments:

• Led analytical work in support of acquisition teams.

• Consolidated disparate policies, procedures and practices arising from the company’s 12 acquisitions over 6-year period; integrated newly acquired businesses into standard planning and reporting.

• Collaborated closely with Board of Directors, outside auditors, and third parties to develop platform ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley guidelines. RODD MANN

Professional Experience Continued

• Drafted, instituted and standardized global policies and accounting standards governing currency management, foreign currency hedging, signature authority matrices, fixed assets and depreciation.

• Streamlined and simplified the global financial close and forecasting process. VICE PRESIDENT, FINANCE, 2001 – 2004

WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION, Lake Forest, CA

Served in key financial management capacity for this multinational disk drive producer with $2.7 billion in annual revenue. Responsible for financial planning and cost accounting for factory operations in Malaysia and Thailand. Managed 125+ finance professionals across the United States and five European/Asian countries. Oversaw the development and implementation of measurable performance objectives. Selected accomplishments:

• Instrumental in molding a finance organization that became more deeply involved in critical aspects of sales, marketing, design and manufacturing. Earned the respect and support of senior management to drive changes, adopt metrics and define roadmaps to achieve challenging targets.

• Constructed working-capital-derived cash flow model that resulted in the use of zero cash during a period that saw company revenues grow by more than 50%.

• Played integral role in $72 million acquisition of a recording heads business that brought a greater degree of vertical integration.

• Enhanced the frequency of - and rigor applied to - inventory forecasting; reducing the costs arising from excess and obsolete inventory.

• Revamped the sales force incentive and compensation system, providing an optimal revenue and gross margin while highly compensating successful sales reps and identifying ones requiring improvement. VICE PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS, 1995 – 2000

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY, INC., Costa Mesa, CA

Provided operations oversight for this disk drive producer with $6 billion in revenue. Responsible for $300 million Removable Storage Solutions Division operations in factories in Singapore and Malaysia as well as California-based pack-out, materials, planning and distribution functions. Charged with ensuring optimal cost, quality and output of manufacturing operations and timely product delivery. Negotiated material prices with vendors, building prices and rents, capital acquisition and labor costs. Managed factory, managerial, engineering, quality, materials and logistics personnel worldwide. Selected accomplishments:

• Played key role in successful launch of factory in Singapore; subsequently relocated operations to Penang, Malaysia to integrate tape head and tape drive production operations in early-2000.

• Oversaw conversion from work-order build system to finished good inventory drawing on repetitive build process triggered by demand replenishment, leading to the elimination of finished goods in final assembly locations and reducing per unit packout costs of $14 to slightly less than $10 on volumes of 300,000 units per quarter.

• Integrated Six Sigma and lean manufacturing techniques into day-to-day operations; lowered defective parts per million from 12,000 to less than 250. Improved inventory turns by a factor of three; reduced inventories to five days with JIT and vendor-managed Kanban. RODD MANN

Professional Experience Continued

• Led retrenchment, re-layout and training that more than doubled productivity and reduced costs by more than $3 million per quarter.

• Improved upon manufacturing metrics, building more product on fewer shifts and eliminating overtime, shift premiums and headcount costs. Recognized by executive team for managing inventory, quality, cost and customer expectations that far exceeded anything seen previously in the company. EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

Master of Business Administration, Major in Financial Management – St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX Bachelor of Business Administration, Major in Marketing – University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Certified Public Accountant, State of Texas

Professional Development

Six Sigma Hands-on Champion • Six Sigma Academy, Scottsdale, AZ GAAP Continuing Education • KPMG FASB Review

APICS Certificate in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) Affiliations

Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) • Financial Executives Institute

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