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Engel Group

Principal/Owner: Edward Engel

contact details:
	Engel Group 8602 Bristol Bay Way Knoxville TN      37923 USA
tel:	865-539-0606
fax:	.
mobile:	208-870-4054
email:	ejengel@msn.com

Key Services Offered:
Business Planning, Financial and Operational Controls, Leadership Devleopment, & Change Management.

What I bring to the table is the ability to establish operating discipline, analyze the financial metrics, and, equally important, build high trust cultures that really drive high performance

Core Experience of Principals:

General Management:
Establish the product/market strategy, revenue rationale, 'customer handoffs', and performance metrics for sustained growth.

At Quality Design Systems, cut release cycle from nine months to four, reduced defects by 75%, integrated a key strategic acquisition, and grew revenues 10% a year for three straight years through the worst downturn in the history of the software industry.

Manufacturing Operations:
Implement TQM, ISO registration, preventive/predictive maintenance, equipment rebuild programs, and process standardization.

At Dico, turned around two underperforming plants in three years, raising throughput at the flagship $100M tire division by 20% with no additional equipment or staff, and increasing profitability of the $50M wheel manufacturing division by 300%.

Finance Leadership:
Leverage financial management expertise in planning & analysis, reporting, cost accounting, systems implementation, business valuation, and Board/investor communications.

As CFO of Fasco, applied volume/mix/performance analysis and Total Cost of Quality metrics to cut labor costs by 15%, and consolidate eleven warehouses to three, as throughput increased by over 30%.

High Performance-High Trust Culture:
Build trust-based relationships leveraging Principle Centered Leadership and the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to make the business work. For QDS, a newly acquired software company, eliminated the attrition of key talent, reskilled the workforce, re-launched the product, delivered two upgrades per year, and positioned the company for resale with no loss of value.

Qualifications:
31 plus years of experience such as President and General Manager, businesses up to $100M

Start-up to Fortune 500 experience across technology, consumer products, process manufacturing, and make-to-order manufacturing

Led three successful turnarounds

Finance leadership roles up to CFO, $100M Division.

Industry Sectors:
Ed has held numerous leadership positions in general management, manufacturing management, and financial management with global industry leaders such as Abbott Laboratories, Rockwell International, MAN, BTR, Titan Wheel International, and Bandag over his 31 years in business. Ed has developed high performance teams and built high trust cultures in industries such as pharmaceuticals, printing presses, consumer air moving products, wheels, tires, retreading, and software.

Ed has taught Franklin Covey Principle Centered Leadership courses for the last seven years. These courses include 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, 4 Roles of Leadership, Building Trust: The Key to High Performance, and 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. Also taught Business Management courses with Mercer University in Georgia as an adjunct professor.

Along the way, I'm perhaps most proud of the teams I've had the opportunity to lead - teams built on trust-based relationships that cut through the turf issues, the self-protective attitudes, and the win-lose thinking that can keep a business from operating at its full potential.

I believe that this approach represents the next generation of business leadership

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