Graduate of University of Illinois (MBA) with over twenty-five years of management and consulting experience serving as CEO, COO, President and Chief Restructuring Officer of various companies. Extensive experience with turnarounds, acquisitions, divestitures, financings, workouts, interim management and negotiating, closing and restructuring deals. Provided M&A, due diligence, consulting and turnaround services to private equity groups, more than fifty Fortune 500 companies, other private companies and governments of the United States, Romania and Japan. Worked at Abbott Laboratories on a successful turnaround team to reverse the losses of a troubled division. Joined Lester B. Knight & Associates and for ten years acquired broad international experience with operations improvement, interim management and mergers and acquisitions of both large and small businesses. Formed Chartered Management Company Inc. in 1985 in Chicago to provide management, acquisition, financial restructuring and turnaround services to private equity groups and corporations. Responsible for numerous successful acquisitions, restructurings, workouts and turnarounds of companies, plus operations improvements, cost reduction, organization restructuring and consolidations in the United States, China, Canada, Mexico, England, France, Belgium, Ireland and Romania.