Greg Paulus

Chief Financial Officer @ Josselyn

About

Senior executive with strong leadership, opportunity recognition, operational, financial, accounting, analytical, and problem-solving skills. Experienced in starting and leading businesses through high growth and distress situations. Strengths in corporate structure, strategic planning and execution, process and systems implementation, and capitalization. Consistent income growth in both business and real estate companies. Experienced with mildly to severely distressed companies in need of strong cash management and turnaround, and companies with growing pains in need of structural, operational and financial help. CEO, CFO and COO experience in all company life cycle stages.

Country

United States

City

Greater Chicago Area

Industry

Mental Health Care

Skill

Process Improvement, Strategic Planning, Problem Solving, Portfolio Management, Loans, Finance, Investments, Financial Analysis, Credit, Banking, Valuation, Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate Economics, Commercial Lending, Real Estate Development, Risk Management, Real Estate Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions, Disposition, Underwriting

Experience

Chief Financial Officer

Josselyn

2022-6 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

Northfield, Illinois, United States

Interim Chief Financial Officer

Josselyn

2022-4 - 2022-6 · 3 mos

Greater Chicago Area

Managing Director

Kreshmore Group®

2018-11 - 2022-5 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Greater Chicago Area

Restructuring and capitalization of growing, growth stalled, and distressed companies with revenues of $5MM to $150MM. Hands on advisory and interim/fractional C suite services (CEO, CFO, COO, CRO), including strategic planning, cash planning/management, accounting clean up/processes/management, modeling for cash flow and budgeting, HR and operations. Completed turnarounds, recapitalizations, and asset and company sales that prevented bankruptcy and provided growth capital.

CRO

OER Services LLC

2020-1 - 2021-9 · 1 yr 9 mos

Elk Grove Village, Illinois, United States

CRO for a WBE/SBE equipment rental company with primarily governmental contracts. Restructuring through Ch 11 Sub V.

COO/CFO

JWF Group/Continuous Cast Alloys/High Quality Alloys/Engineered Alloys

2021-4 - 2021-8 · 5 mos

Chicago/Chattanooga/Houston

COO/CFO/CRO for a group of alloy casting and processing companies. Restructuring and re-capitalizing the companies as they emerge from a Covid slump with a sales backlog.

Interim CFO

IT Services Company

2019-1 - 2019-10 · 10 mos

Greater Chicago Area

Cash stabilization, loan workout, cleanup of accounting and processes, transition of accounting system, arrangement and negotiation of sale.

CEO

Stage Five Strategies, LLC

2016-9 - 2019-6 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Greater Chicago Area

Advisory and execution company focused on strategic planning and implementation for distressed companies and early stage companies striving to grow and succeed. Turnaround and performance improvement, operating flow, process and procedures creation and restructuring, growth, equity and debt procurement, debt workout, executive management services provided to all stages of companies. Note sale and purchasing analysis, due diligence, preparation, and execution provided to banks, private lenders and investors.

Advisory Services

Verbal Transactions

2018-4 - 2018-12 · 9 mos

Saas startup focused on corporate training for call centers. Interactive platform utilizing AI, speech recognition and NLP to prepare call center workers for live caller interaction. Strategy, operational and financial advisory. Preparing to launch a seed round.

Advisory Board Member

BaziFIT, Inc.

2018-2 - 2018-11 · 10 mos

Greater Denver Area

IoT for the physical rehab and physical fitness industries. Device and software that utilizes edge computing, AI and machine learning to track and score exercise routines to provide a more objective measure of progress. Currently raising a seed round. Device is on version 2 (I use it!) and next version of software is in progress.

Advisory

Oval Fire Products

2017-11 - 2018-11 · 1 yr 1 mo

Health and safety company with the world's only oval fire extinguisher. At less than 4" deep it is also the only health, safety, fire and ADA compliant wall hung fire extinguisher in the world. Strategic, operational and financial advisory. Currently in our Series B capital raise.