james padilla

Achieved 2.5X revenue growth while maintaining operating margins >30% and net income >15%. 2016 sales developed focus on service and value added parts business for market stability. Forecast annual growth 5x in next 5 years. Developed 1, 3, 5 and 10-year business plan and dashboard metrics tracking system. Also, developed sales tracking and communication tools. Ongoing operating system and ERP development to support the growth model.

* A new kind of team for a new kind of automotive industry. We are a team of senior automotive subject-matter experts – each having over 20 years of relevant experience in manufacturing, brand, retail, fleet and technology. Our key driver is to leverage our combined domain to introduce and deliver innovative solutions to the automotive vertical that: * Sell more cars. * Create efficiencies. * Solve critical business challenges. What. Combine our collective experience in all facets of the automotive industry on activity related to three key areas of focus: Advisory Practice: Dynamic thought partners to our clients with the objective of solving critical business challenges. Solution Discovery: Find, scrutinize, test and make market ready disruptive, third party solutions, with the intent of introducing only the best in class to our OEM, retail and fleet partners. Product Development: Partner with leading edge technology companies to design and build game-changing products.

www.ancorinfo.com www.utilitec.net Utility data management - print and mail billing as well as payment processing (Utilitec) Automotive data management -VIN specific label printing and web presentment Better Lives through Better Data!

Core Specializations: Strategic Planning, New Business Launch, Project and Manufacturing Management, Renewable Energy and Systems Development/Implementation www.newwestab.com Worked in Alberta for the federal government of Canada on financial oversight, business development and capacity development at sovereign first nations. Managed the financial turnaround of a sovereign First Nation. Exited from "special loans" status at RBC to again become creditworthy while improving community services. Performed valuations and advisory for several growth stage enterprises. Identified and implemented development plans and strategic partnerships.

Received excellent student feedback ratings teaching Intro to Computers class. Taught graduate level IT project management and Information Systems classes as well as Software Requirements and Design. Solicited for graduate business school Supply Chain Management assignment.

Bond financed and installed the highest capacity biodiesel plant in the State of Michigan. Led research partnerships with Michigan State University, the University of Detroit-Mercy and others. Developed and published second generation oilseed projects with the MEDC (Michigan Economic Development Corporation). Developed patented production processes for third generation feedstock. www.thepoweralternative.com www.metroagservices.com

Led up to 14 facilities throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois with 2,000 employees. P&L responsibility for injection and blow molding facilities with over $300 million in annual sales. Assumed responsibility as VP of Launches and Transfers in 2007. And was responsible for over $200 million in new product launch into manufacturing across 31 plants in 2007.

Assistant Plant Manager and Plant Manager at the Romulus facility which produced injection/blow molded products for the Ford F150, Dodge Ram pickup, Town and Country minivan, Mazda 6, Ford Focus, Dodge Neon, and Lexus RX330. Promoted to General Manager for the Chicago, Frenchtown and Romulus plants.

Business Planner for advanced electronics. Focused on instrumentation - DLP instrument clusters (partnership with Texas Instruments, Minolta, Carl Zeiss, etc.) Wrote IT applications for Global Quote Tracking, Electronics Division Change Control Management, and Electronics Division Engineering Budget Management.

Oversaw several commercial truck vehicle launch programs at the Ipiranga Truck Plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Launched over 14 variants of the F150 (light duty commercial truck) as well several variants of the Ford Cargo (cab over engine). Additionally launched two brand-new F250 (P131 program) and Medium Duty (H215 program) vehicle platforms. All programs launched on time and under budget.

Worked in Trim, Final, Chassis and Stamping Areas of the Wayne Assembly Plant (Ford Escort/Focus) Participated in the launch of two Escort vehicle programs (CT20 and CT120). Managed the Chassis Subsystem Team from worst-in-company to best-in-class.

Economics and International Business Law coursework

Accounting, Operations and Finance coursework

Pricing Strategy and Game Theory. (Former Budapest University of Economic Studies)

Database design, C++, Java, Unix and Systems Programming

Concentration in International Commerce Extensive coursework in French and Spanish Studies at L'Universite de Caen