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Todd M. Ryan
Ryan Consulting LLC
P.O Box 36 - Wilmette IL 60091
Tel: 847-251-5565 - Fax: 847-251-3140
www.ryanconsultingllc.com - ryantmllc@aol.com

Founded Ryan Consulting LLC in 1998 in order to help clients to integrate their financial, strategic, and performance goals. Extensive experience in the architectural/engineering/construction, consumer products, and healthcare industries.

Founded these Arthur Andersen service lines: Corporate finance in 1985, corporate development outsourcing in 1995, and performance improvement in 1996. Partner in charge of corporate finance until1998.

Key strengths: problem solving and innovation. An articulate proponent of shareholder value creation.

Moves easily between macro and micro issues.

Developed new services for Andersen’s corporate finance and specialty consulting groups, including:
-Corporate development outsourcing
-An enhanced form of shareholder value measurement and creation
-Capability-based strategy
-Integrated corporate finance and strategy reviews
-Lowering the cost of capital through targeted financing of business units.

One quarter of all assignments has been international.

CURRICULUM VITAE

PRESENT TITLE: CEO, Ryan Consulting LLC

EDUCATION AND DEGREES:
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
BA Psychology 1970
B.Sc. Math/Chemistry 1971
Ms. Statistics 1974

University of Wisconsin – Madison
Completed coursework for Ph.D. Economics (Finance) 1976

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Industry concentration includes Engineering/Construction, Healthcare, and consumer products.

Professional expertise includes strategy, planning, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and shareholder value improvement.

CORPORATE FINANCE CONSULTING AND RELEVANT CLIENT EXPERIENCE:

Acted as M&A or financial advisor on several hundred acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, start-ups, recapitalizations, IPOs and other special purpose financings, some private placements under Rule 144(a). Usually worked from the origination stage through closing. Used a variety of entity forms, including general partnerships, limited partnerships, LLPs, LLCs, and S-Corps. Deals ranged in size from $4.0MM to $4,000MM.

Worked with lenders and other financing sources to structure favorable funding terms for clients, some of who were under-performing.

Negotiated most deals so that all business points were resolved, resulting in minimal lawyer debates and reduced transaction cost.

Developed corporate governance model for major new client. Was adopted and is in use today.

Performed or managed over 500 business valuations of U.S. and international companies.

Provided strategic planning assistance on acquisition/divestitures in many industries. Size of deals ranging from $40MM to $4,000MM.

Provided takeover defense and shareholder value improvement consultation for several large publicly held clients.

Provided due diligence service, including risk assessment, for a number of commercial lenders and investment principals.

Assisted several management and outsider groups in structuring, financing, and executing leveraged buyouts of their businesses.

Assisted several buyer clients in developing an effective post-acquisition integration plan for their new businesses.

PRIOR AFFILIATIONS AND POSITIONS:
1988-1998
Arthur Andersen LLP
Partner-Corporate Finance
Member U.S. Private Placement Committee
Member Japanese International Network

1985-1988
Arthur Andersen, S.C.
Manager Corporate Finance
1979-1985
Philip Morris Cos.
Director Planning (non-tobacco businesses)

1974-1979
Miller Brewing Co.
Sr. Manager Sales Services and Development

1972-1974
Falk Corporation
Sr. Operations Research Analyst

1969-1972
Falk Corporation
Materials Chemist

PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Shareholder value improvement
Designed risk-based project bidding and acceptance procedures for the AEC industry
Strategy consulting
Corporate development
Profit improvement

Evaluation and negotiation of:
Equity-sharing joint ventures or other investment entities
Contractual agreements to allocate earnings and profits among participants
Regionally exclusive relationships, such as between the firm and a supplier or manufacturer

Capital raising
Capitalization of subsidiaries and business units
Mergers and acquisition assistance
Critical process mapping/alignment

Todd Michael Ryan Personal Comments:

I seek a chief financial officer or similar position with a larger, fast growing, transaction-oriented firm whose energy matches my own. I have had similar positions with increasing responsibility for most of my career. I am a builder and a problem solver rather than a caretaker. My communication skills are excellent.

I prefer to stay in the Chicago area, which gives me easy airline access to most major cities. My travel schedule has always been heavy. I expect that to continue. About one quarter of my work has been international. I am accustomed to long hours, working at client sites four days per week.

I have had my own consulting firm since 1998. I have two associates. The work is rewarding and I enjoy my clients, but my limited people resources have precluded me from accepting longer-term assignments. As a result, I have not yet developed a satisfactory business backlog.

Review CV - Review: Executive Summary & Candidate Analysis

COMMENT FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY & CANDIDATE ANALYSIS

Candidate: Todd Michael Ryan
Senior Members of The Board of Directors have reviewed the c.v. outlining the qualifications of this candidate and an telephonic interview has been conducted.

Evaluation: Excellent Candidate.

Todd Ryan has superb training, impeccable credentials and, a professional demeanor that certainly makes him a top financial management candidate for a large, complex organization. He has had 13 years with Arthur Anderson as a Senior Partner with heavy experience in major mergers and acquisitions, equity -sharing and joint ventures (acquisitions and divestitures ranged in size from $40MM to $4,000MM. His c.v. speaks for itself. He can deal with the most sophisticated, complex issues with a very broad back ground of having valued more than 500 U.S. and international organizations.

COMMENT:
Todd is a serious, thoroughgoing professional with top-flight skills evident. Our interviewer’s reaction was, that Todd understates his capabilities. He should broaden his target from CFO for a large, fast-track, transaction-oriented firm to that of CEO. In our interviewer’s opinion, he is ready by age and training to take on the "top-spot" in a broad range of organizations.

He is an innovative, technically sound leader with all of the skills necessary to deal at operations as well as board level. Shareholders, owners, employees and customers will all benefit from working with him. He is used to the heavy travel, constant demands and pressures of the premier consulting organization. He has been at it for a long time without becoming jaded. This chap is excited by challenge. He revels in technical issues - - has a solid chemistry background with training in physiological and organic chemistry.

Ideal niche? Running a medium/large to very large, global, capital and technology intensive organization in the pharmaceutical, chemical, healthcare, agricultural, environmental, or consumer goods fields. He has the training and background to adapt to organizations that are ready to reinvent themselves. Expansion? New areas? Refinement? E-commerce?

Bottom line: This is a man that will be more than a contributor.

Review CV

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