
Managing Partner at The Westcott Edwards Group
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Managing Partner at The Westcott Edwards Group
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area
My background includes thirty-five years of executive experience including “C” level responsibilities with two start-up companies, Aquidneck Data Corporation and The Freedom Group, that were respectively sold to Eastman Kodak and American Retirement Corporation. I also served as a Corporate Internal Auditor for General Dynamics Corporation and Chief Corporate Accountant for Sanders Associates, Inc, now a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation.
I am currently the CEO of EMW Senior Living Group as well as a founding Managing Partner in The Westcott Edwards Group, both national Management Consulting Companies. These companies are comprised of accomplished senior executives dedicated to helping clients meet and exceed their strategic objectives. The firm is owned and managed by its partners and joins with its clients to solve challenging business issues, exploit opportunities and find new profitable venues for growth.
As CFO/SVP Operations, I played a significant part in helping a young company become nationally successful in the business of designing, constructing, marketing and managing senior living centers. As a Partner, in the capacity of CFO/Senior VP of Operations, I was able to utilize his financial and managerial abilities to help the Freedom Group go from a start-up, to one that ultimately managed 1,700 employees and accumulated $300 million in assets.
During the early – mid eighties, I was CFO and a Director of Aquidneck Data Corporation in Newport, RI. During his employment, Inc. Magazine twice ranked this “high-tech” company as one of the fifty best-managed companies in the nation.
Turn-around, Start-up's, Business/Marketing Plans, Financing, Team-building, CEO Coach, Equity Capital, Outside Business Relationships, Management Team/Employee Evaluation, Employee Retention, Employee Benefits, Recruiting,CEO Coach/Confidant, Accounting Procedures & Controls, Organizational Diagnosis, Interim/Permanent Financing and Interim Management Services (President, COO, CFO, Controller, Executive Director).
(Management Consulting industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
I am a founding Managing Partner of The Westcott Edwards Group, a national Management Consulting Company that serves a wide variety of industries. This company is comprised of accomplished senior executives dedicated to helping clients meet and exceed their strategic objectives. The firm is owned and managed by their partners and joins with its clients to solve challenging business issues, exploit opportunities and find new profitable venues for growth.
Working with the client, we employ our collective experiences in all the major functional disciplines to meet the objectives of the engagement. The objective of any engagement is to complement existing leadership with a fresh perspective, and join with existing management to implement the new solutions that we help them define. In doing so, we facilitate and execute the required and agreed upon changes.
(Management Consulting industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
EMW Senior Living Group is a management firm that provides professional high quality solutions to senior living providers. We specialize in providing Interim Executive Director or Regional Director services to entities that are in a turn-around mode or in transition caused by inevitable management changes.
We strive to join with our provider clients to confront and solve challenging business problems and fully exploit exciting opportunities.
By possessing considerable depth in all the major financial, marketing and management disciplines within the senior living industry, we apply our experiences and capabilities to the operations of the entities we serve. By focusing on financial performance, resident satisfaction and employee morale, our perspective is always in line with that of the provider.
Our company seeks to complement existing leadership with fresh perspective, and to join with existing management to implement the solutions we help them define.