Douglas Klein

Current

Chief Financial Officer at Goodmans Interior Structures
Board of Directors at FreeEnergy Inc.

Past

Chief Financial Officer at Zounds, Inc.
Chief Financial Officer at Connelly Billiard Manufacturing, Inc.
President & CEO at Adcom LLC / Klein Technology Group LLC

Chief Financial Officer at Pinnacle Distribution Concepts, Inc.
Chief Financial Officer at Go-Video, Inc. / Sensory Science Corporation / GoVideo
Relationship Mgr / Portfolio Mgr at Continental Bank

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Education

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Purdue University

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Industry

Consumer Goods

Douglas Klein’s Summary

I have over 15 years experience in building companies from launch or entreprenurial stage through fast-growth/middle-market stages. My experience includes both public and private companies with world-wide product development, manufacturing, distribution, and retail operations. I have substantial executive experience leading product development, financial, manufacturing, operations, and administrative activites, along with three years' experience in leading sales and marketing activities in both wholesale and retail channels.

Douglas Klein’s Specialties:

Raising capital; building front and back office capabilities and infrastructure including market segmentation, sales policies, information techology (including ERP and office/field productivity tools); recruiting and training; investor and public relations; financial (EVA) analysis; S.E.C. reporting; mergers, acquisitions, divestments and strategic alliances; contract negotiation; manufacturing (internal or sourced); and product and business development.

Douglas Klein’s Experience

Chief Financial Officer

Goodmans Interior Structures

(Business Supplies and Equipment industry)

March 2009 — Present (5 months)

Goodmans Interior Structures is the largest office furniture and related accessories dealer in the Southwest and one of the largest Herman Miller dealers in the world.

www.goodmans.info
Board of Directors

FreeEnergy Inc.

(Renewables & Environment industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Member of Board of Directors, Secretary, Treasurer

FreeEnergy is an early-stage company developing high-efficiency, low cost photovoltaic systems for use in residential and commercial hot water and electrical power applications.
Chief Financial Officer

Zounds, Inc.

(Privately Held; Medical Devices industry)

May 2006 — March 2009 (2 years 11 months)

Chief Financial Officer for early-stage medical device development, manufacturing, and marketing company with 30 company-operated retail stores across the U.S. I created the accounting, facilities, finance, information systems, and multi-state tax operations and worked with CEO to raise capital and create strategic plan.

www.zoundshearing.com
Chief Financial Officer

Connelly Billiard Manufacturing, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

February 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 4 months)

Connelly Billiards manufacturers and markets worldwide its line of high-quality, legacy-value billiard tables and accessories. The company also operates numerous retail locations displaying and selling its line of billiard tables plus other high-quality game room furniture, games, and accessories. While employed at Connelly, I was responsible for accounting, facilities, finance, human resources, information technology, and legal functional areas.
President & CEO

Adcom LLC / Klein Technology Group LLC

(Consumer Electronics industry)

December 2001 — July 2004 (2 years 8 months)

Adcom designs, develops, manufactures, markets and sells worldwide high-performance audio and video consumer electronics. As President and CEO, I led the acquisition of Adcom in late 2001 and completely revamped the product line, increased the domestic dealer network by 40% and added over thirty international dealers. I sold the company in July 2004 to an Asia-based manufacturer.
Chief Financial Officer

Pinnacle Distribution Concepts, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Wholesale industry)

November 1999 — February 2002 (2 years 4 months)

As one of three founding executives, I raised $10 million of capital and established all accounting, warehousing, I.T., customer service, credit, and H.R. functions. Due to a distribution agreement with a Fortune 100 manufacturer, we were required to establish the company and be running at a $50 million run rate four weeks after signing the distribution agreement. This was accomplished and the company is now one of the largest distributors for this manufacturer in the U.S.
Chief Financial Officer

Go-Video, Inc. / Sensory Science Corporation / GoVideo

(Consumer Electronics industry)

April 1993 — November 1999 (6 years 8 months)

Go-Video (AMEX: VCR) was a public company that launched the Dual-Deck VCR and grew into a $100 mm+ in revenue company during the seven years that I was CFO. I led Accounting, Finance, H.R., I.T., Legal, and Operations and was privileged to work with a team of high-performing executives on several acquisitions, new product developments, world-wide sourcing, marketing, and distribution, and other challenges with a fast-growth company in a highly competitive industry.
Relationship Mgr / Portfolio Mgr

Continental Bank

(Public Company; Banking industry)

June 1983 — October 1992 (9 years 5 months)

Continental Bank N.A. - Chicago. Internal Audit (1983 - 1985), Midwest Commercial Lending (1985 - 1988), Officer Training Program (1988), Dallas TX Regional Office (1988 - 1989), Investment Grade West Portfolio Manager - Chicago based (1990 - 1991), Midwest Commercial Banking Portfolio Manager (1992)

Douglas Klein’s Education

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

MBA , Finance, Marketing, International Business, Org. Beh. , 1988 — 1992
Purdue University

B.S. , Management / Finance , August 1979 — May 1983