Will Dahlstrom

• Implemented operational strategies to drive value creation and maximize investor returns at Dane Equity. • Led initiatives in operational excellence and leadership development across a diverse portfolio of businesses. • Collaborated with management teams to optimize business performance and growth opportunities.

Served as the COO of a National Top 100 Roofing and Exterior Services company, driving operational and financial success across a multi-state organization with multiple divisions and branches. Accountable for ensuring strategic alignment and operational excellence across Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Operations, and Marketing functions while reporting directly to the CEO and President. • Spearheaded initiatives that improved gross margin, enhanced employee retention, and unlocked new revenue streams by expanding into New Construction, Multi-Family, and Repair channels. • Directed the organization through a private equity acquisition, leading integration efforts that maximized value creation and operational efficiencies. • Focused on building a high-performing leadership team, optimizing processes, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement to support sustainable growth.

▪ COO of the organization responsible for ensuring the operational and financial success of a national law group operating in over 12 states across 31 offices. Oversee the Marketing, Finance, Human Resources (HR), Operations, Software Development, and Staff functions. ▪ Directly manage the employee performance of 12 direct reports by establishing clear goals and creating and overseeing high-level KPIs, tracking progress against the goals, ensuring timely feedback, and addressing performance issues promptly and directly. ▪ Partner directly with the CEO and establish, communicate, implement, and manage the company's strategic annual goals, vision, and overall operational strategy and plans. ▪ Manage P&L and hold the leadership team and department leaders accountable for financial goals. Establish the quarterly and annual budgets, all expense lines, set policies and determine strategies to meet or exceed revenue, profit, and cash flow commitments, and forecast and provide proactive corrective actions. ▪ Ideated, and established KPI related dashboards to showcase status, goals, and progress in clear, relevant, and actionable insights. Leverage data and analytics to support decision-making and employee performance plans and coaching. ▪ Leveraged historical client purchasing behavior data and strategic relationships with high-profile clients and build a consistent referral base and increase revenue. ▪ Role model leadership and organizational values and expectations through behavior, work ethic, communication, presence, and focus on the greater good of the business.

▪ Executive Operations leader, managed five direct and 80 indirect reports, and oversaw day-to-day operations, and coordinated the goals of all company areas from sales, marketing, operations, IT, and core services to ensure financial success. ▪ Collaborated with cross-functional leadership and worked closely with the CEO to define new business operational initiatives resulting in improved efficiency, simplicity, scalability, and achievement of company goals. ▪ Tracked, analyzed, and reported on KPIs, including financial data to identify areas of improvement and craft innovative action plans to improve performance. ▪ Key accomplishments: - Reorganized the company due to Covid19 Pandemic ensuring survival and continued sustained growth. Transitioned to remote, and led a Dual Transformation across the company standing up a completely new Digital Division (Daily Newsletter Products across all Markets, Sponsored Ad revenue product in “CI Storytelling”, and reinvigorated subscription product). - Led the Executive Leadership Team to achieve over 90% of Quarterly and Annual goals.

▪ Selected as the EOS integrator. Responsible for integrating the Executive leadership team, operational excellence across the organization, and sustainable strategic growth and profitability of Community Impact Newspaper and Community Impact Printing. ▪ Acted as the tiebreaker for the leadership team, beat the drum (provided cadence) throughout integration, executed the business plan, held the Leadership Team accountable, and was directly responsible for the P&L results. ▪ Oversaw manufacturing and related operations, directly responsible for the strategic growth and profitability of the Community Impact Printing business. ▪ Analyzed current and future trends and needs and accurately assessed manufacturing capacity, staffing, supplies, budgets, and potential risks. ▪ Built and maintained a departmental structure, operating standards, and practices that were responsive and adaptable to evolving business needs. ▪ Key accomplishments: - Transitioned over 90% of the organization to Work from Home (WFH) capable, creating new business products and revenue streams. - Led the team through national expansion, increasing the company's throughput by over 40% with no additional leverage. - Increased Net-Income of Operations and Production by over 166% year over year. - Stood up and maintained 99.97% On-time Delivery and reduced lead time to the customer of standard products by over 60%. - Renegotiated strategic supplier relationships, resulting in 10% savings in the cost of our commodity materials. - Increased top-line revenue by over 4x and year-end Operating Income by over 30x in less than 36 months.

▪ Superintendent and Business Leader directed operations and managed the P&L for multiple seven-figure businesses under the Worthington umbrella. Responsible for the business and production strategy, transformation and lean initiatives, succession planning, development of future leaders, and directed business strategy and market share growth. ▪ Key accomplishments: - Increased throughput by over 200%. Grew the brand by over 3,500% during the second Fiscal Year. -Established MoM positive Contribution Margin, and increased Gross Margin by 20% of Total Revenue. - Reduced overtime hours by 60%, improved OTD from 30% to over 80%, reduced lead time of our normalized product by 29%, and increased annual Inventory Turns from less than 1 to over 10. - Served as Operations Lead for the Acquisition and Transition of eight-figure businesses within the Cryogenics SBU.

▪ Helped to drive value added business solutions through implementation of lean principles and change management, growing organic lean cross functional teams and utilizing analytical excellence to identify areas for transformative growth. Communicated and shared best practices through facilitation of Continuous Improvement meetings with company wide Continuous Improvement Managers. ▪ Integrated daily with primary operations managers and executive leadership to update and sustain growth opportunities. ▪ Led and contributed to multiple operational and current-state diagnostics of plants falling under the Cylinder Division of Worthington Industries. ▪ Led Operational focused CI teams resulting in operational efficiency and throughput improvements of up to 50%. ▪ Produced and continually improved a monthly Division-wide Key Performance Report, ranking all plants in the Cylinder Division based upon established KPIs. Adopted as a key operational success indicator on the Quarterly Business Review. ▪ Conducted numerous commercial current state diagnostics resulting in the sharing of information across multiple departments, allowing for increased revenue growth and strategic decision-making to be made in a more informed and decisive manner.