Ron Lueptow

Past

• President, Tampa Bay Chapter at Financial Executives International
• Chief Financial Officer at The Spring Air Company
• Chief Financial Officer at Consolidated Bedding, Inc.

• Group Vice President of Finance at CIRCOR International, Inc., Public, Industrial/Military Valves
• Vice President Financial Planning & Analysis at Tellabs

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Education

• Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
• North Central College

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Websites

• My Website

Ron Lueptow’s Summary

"Finance is a contact sport."

Solving problems and empowering teams to meet objectives with fact-based analysis.

• Builder of empowered teams and dependable financial and operational analysis yielding margin and working capital improvements through pricing and product changes, lean manufacturing to reduce costs, and process re-engineering to raise customer satisfaction.
• Successful international and domestic sell-side and buy-side transaction leadership including intelligent, fact-based strategic planning and modeling, forecasting, target evaluation versus plan and model, selection and coordination of advisors, operational and financial due diligence, deal structure, transaction processing, and integration.
• Effective communication with all constituents through broad and deep background in finance, supply chain, IT, HR, facilities and legal functions in private and public high tech, industrial, electronic, and consumer durables manufacturers.

Dependable. Intelligent. Effective.

Ron Lueptow’s Specialties:

Acquisitions/Divestitures • Integrations • Turnarounds • Investor/Board/Lender Interface • International Multi-Plant Strategic Financial Planning & Analysis • Accounting and Reporting • Cost Accounting • Cash Management • Working Capital Improvement • Treasury/Banking/FX • International Finance Operations • Lean Manufacturing • HR Management • Organizational Development • Recruitment • MIS/IT Strategy and ERP Conversions • Balanced Scorecard and Dashboards • Audit • Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

Ron Lueptow’s Experience

• President, Tampa Bay Chapter

  Financial Executives International

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  April 2008 — November 2008 (8 months)

  FEI is the preeminent association for CFO's and senior financial executives.

• Chief Financial Officer

  The Spring Air Company

  (Consumer Goods industry)

  November 2005 — June 2008 (2 years 8 months)

• Chief Financial Officer

  Consolidated Bedding, Inc.

  (Consumer Goods industry)

  2005 — 2007 (2 years)

• Group Vice President of Finance

  CIRCOR International, Inc., Public, Industrial/Military Valves

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Human Resources industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year)

• Vice President Financial Planning & Analysis

  Tellabs

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TLAB; Telecommunications industry)

  1988 — 2004 (16 years)

Ron Lueptow’s Education

• Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

  Masters of Management , Finance and Operations , 1987 — 1989

• North Central College

  B.A. , Business Administration, Psychology , 1976 — 1981

Additional Information

Ron Lueptow’s Websites:

• My Website

Ron Lueptow’s Honors:

North Central College Distinguished Alumni Award

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