Ted Stokes

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About Ted Stokes

Mentor, strategist, results-oriented, highly accomplished executive, with extensive financial and operational leadership experience encompassing corporate finance, P&L management, acquisition due diligence, business reengineering, and turnaround initiatives, Inventory/Materials management. Demonstrated ability to streamline operations increasing efficiency, productivity, and bottom line results. Visionary, strategic, and conceptual thinker, able to analyze opportunities or issues, generate new ideas, and initiate change. Resourceful problem solver with ability to stabilize situations, execute due diligence, and resolve mission critical challenges. Effective communicator with exceptional team building skills and ability to coordinate cross-functional groups to accomplish objectives and meet critical deadlines in high growth and diverse environments. 35 + years of financial business experience, in strategist for executing turnarounds Mentor and Strategist to start ups covering an extensive market sector structure. Author of What If? The Entrepreneurial Answer. The book came from my experience and knowledge gained over the 35 + years of mentoring and working with Entrepreneurs in both turnarounds and start ups. The knowledge and experience has allowed me to mentor start up teams to make better informed decisions to limit the miss-steps as they move forward with their companies. Specialties: Turnaround: Experience creating new business models and execution plans, that included market strategy, internal controls, and financial forecasting. Then managing the team to a success point. Early Stage: Business Model Definition, Build Executive Summaries, Financials, PowerPoint Presentations,for investment community. Teaching and mentoring strategy to entrepreneurs what it takes to go from idea to funding, and beyond.