steve hicks

* As key member of leadership team, provide strategic direction for brand marketing, manufacturing improvements, logistics footprint and material utilization. * Complete financial analysis related to cost savings and process improvements and perform competitive review and analysis to identify opportunities and potential issues. * Review and approve pricing decisions and capital expenditure requests in compliance with corporate guidelines. * Participate in analysis and shared decision making related to manufacturing capacity and demand optimization. * Oversee annual budget, plant cost accounting, forecast preparation and review.

Financial authority and leadership over efforts to achieve EBITDA for $410M value stream covering product development and pricing, marketing and life cycle plans, manufacturing, capacity/demand optimization, capital expenditure development / deployment and all business analysis. Manage capital expenditure approval and shared decision making related to manufacturing capacity and demand optimization. Developed all-inclusive manufacturing and product integration plan that delivered $32M savings. Reengineered various accounting and reporting systems to maximize earnings and provide accurate material cost information throughout entire organization.

* Hired to bring financial structure and greater control to manufacturing operations with accountability for five flexible packaging facilities with total revenues of $400M. Directed all P&L reporting and inventory control, SOX compliance activities and financial review/forecasting. * Increased overall EBITDA results by developing standard P&L reporting package including critical manufacturing metrics to enable monitoring and performance and improvements at each plant. * Generated 15% inventory reduction by strengthening production reporting practices, inventory accounting and reporting. * Delivered 3.6% year-over-year cost improvement including 1.8% in labor, 1.2% in variable overhead and .6% in fixed overhead through implementation of LEAN (ABS) practices.

* Provided financial management for $150M Information Services Group employing over 700 people accountable for design, development and support of all network infrastructure and software applications in North America. * Led all financial aspects of $800M capital project to deploy global Enterprise Business System (Oracle). * Improved customer relations and simplified budget process across Global IT business by directing comprehensive redesign of internal chargeback system and annual budgeting process.

* Key member of the executive management team. * Responsible for the Finance, IT and Ops in the U.S.; Finance and IT at factories in Honduras, Nicaragua and Dominican Republic. * Partner with leadership team to develop and implement strategic plans. * Provide a system of internal controls and corporate oversight to appropriately protect assets of the company. * Evaluate acquisition opportunities determining fit, synergies, risks and overall value. * Significantly improve management information and deliver high quality business intelligence that adds value to operational and strategic decisions. * Direct the financial planning, reporting and interpreting of the company's financial results.