Craig Randall has worked in CPA firms for over 25 years after attending California State University, Northridge with an emphasis in business management.  During this time he specialized in working with manufacturing and wholesale distribution companies throughout Southern California.  He has assisted many businesses in implementing more advanced accounting and inventory control software, during which he learned the back-end of the manufacturing processes.  Discovering failures and inadequacies of operational procedures and policies, he has successfully designed, developed and implemented improvements to resolve such problems.

 

Craig has assisted in selling clients businesses, or parts of them, for a variety of manufacturing and service business types.  He has helped many clients acquire competitors.  Craig uses unique and innovative methods for matching the right buyers and sellers together.

 

Enjoying problem solving, Craig Randall has reduced direct cost of goods sold by improving purchasing strategies, improving work order determination and processing, decreasing manufacturing and assembly costs by determining how to measure warehouse productivity, then creating benchmarks to monitor and increase productivity.   Streamlining the cost of delivery has allowed dramatic reductions in assembly picking time, order picking time, packaging costs and shipping department costs. Warehouse layouts have been improved, operations have been automated, and document controls have been simplified and improved. 

 

Craig has been beneficial to many companies in increasing their sales:  determining better distribution channels, developing improved salesrep compensation plans, designing customer purchasing incentive plans and promotions, researching market demand for existing product lines and suggesting alternatives, discovering sales trends with existing customers to improve sales of previously unsold or undersold product lines to those existing customers, improving customer sales literature, and developing telemarketing centers.

 

Craig Randall has experience with many different manufacturing and distribution business types. An example of some of the types of business are cosmetics manufacturing (from their inception until annual sales of  25 million), lighting fixture manufacturing, appliance wholesaler (from their inception until annual sales of 40 million), plastic toy manufacturer, craft import distributor, label printer manufacturer, sign manufacturers, mainframe tape drive manufacturer, music speaker manufacturer, carbon monoxide and other toxic gases monitoring devices manufactured for industrial manufacturing and oil refining plants, developer of electronic switching equipment used on navel submarines, rubber fitting manufacturer, steel tank and casing manufacturer, boat engine marinization manufacturer, candy manufacturer and others.

 

Most companies desire or need an improvement in cash flow and Craig Randall has helped several companies with cash flow deficiencies by evaluating and reducing inventories, while reducing manufacturing and order shortages, negotiating with vendors, securing bank financing, securing non-bank financing, reducing operating expenses, rapidly increasing sales, improving and developing monitoring for marketing and adverting campaigns. 

 

Craig has been married for 25 years, has a wonderful daughter, and has been a member of a local Rotary group and Chamber of Commerce.  He has been a basketball coach, and a soccer coach.  He enjoys the outdoors, especially camping. 

 

 

 

Scott Young has over 25 years experience in helping companies create and implement successful business strategies, and achieve operational efficiencies and revenue growth.   With an education from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (professional Bachelor of Architecture degree), International Program studies in Florence, Italy, and Caltech, Mr. Young excels in creative design, problem solving, strategy/planning and technical analysis.  His clients cover a range of sizes and industries, and include such organizations as ARCO AM/PM, BBDO West, Del Web, Foodmaker/Jack-in-the-Box, JAMS/Endispute, UCI, UCLA, numerous municipal agencies, hospitals and medical clinics, and various religious organizations.

 

Prior to consulting, Scott Young’s professional career began as an architect, and within three years was promoted from draftsman to director.  He was responsible for strategic implementation of a half-million dollar Computer-Aided Design program for a leading-edge 40-person architectural firm in Newport Beach, California.  Successful development of system standards, guidelines, training, and production techniques yielded a 60% increase in productivity within two years. 

 

Having started, owned and operated several businesses, Scott has gained invaluable insight into the everyday problems of a growing business.  He has experience in creatively determining and implementing solutions necessary for success, and has honed unique strategies and capabilities towards improving a business’ operations and bottom line.  His ability to listen and calmly apply creative and innovative approaches is instrumental in helping businesses through challenging times.  Scott has helped many with his innate ability to get to the core of the problem, determine the immediate correction and commit to assisting in the long-term procedural improvement necessary.

 

Scott volunteers time towards community- and family-oriented causes such as church building committee, coaching children’s baseball, softball, volleyball, and AYSO soccer.  He has served on the boards of such organizations as PACE/Alliance for the Arts, RequestAmerica.com, and the YMCA.  Scott has been married for 19 years, and is the blessed father of three great children.

 

 

 

Very experienced.  Very intelligent.  Very quick.  Paul has held senior executive positions including Vice President of Operations and Chief Executive Officer and has more than 30 years of direct hands-on experience in product development, marketing, manufacturing & general management.  Paul’s vast background includes direct turn-around and direct management experience in many manufacturing industries.

 

Paul Hightower has been a Member of the Los Angeles Unified School District Advisory Council, a Member of the Board for the Granada Hills Business Improvement District, a Member and Advisory Coach for the Executive Roundtable Group for CEO’s, and a Member of Vistage formerly known as The Executive Committee (TEC). 

 

An active member of the local community, Paul is also active with his wonderful family.  Being the President of his local Homeowners Association helped Paul in maintaining and improving his local community. 

 

All phases of manufacturing have been improved by Paul in numerous businesses.  Paul’s direct and to the point attitude is refreshing.  When coupled with his clarity of the necessary improvements to achieve financial and operational success, Paul becomes a powerful strategic partner.

 

Paul is a very capable negotiator in the buying and selling of businesses.  His abililty to bring both sides to agreement is remarkable.

 

 

Doug Denton

 

Doug Denton is an accomplished VP of Operations.  He has coordinated the efforts of hundreds of manufacturing and assembly workers in cosmetics and other industries.  Doug is not content merely doing a good job, rather he goes above and beyond in working countless hours striving for excellence, innovative improvements and exceptions based accountability. 

 

Doug has worked as Operations Manager, Chief Operating Officer and VP of Operations for 5 million to 100+ million dollar businesses throughout the Greater Los Angeles Area. Doug is an expert in Crystal Reports, a sophisticated report generation program that is utilized by many of the top mid-market accounting programs.  This expertise allows Doug to determine, design, then implement company specific reports that replace the generic reports that don’t quite meet the needs of many companies.  These reports result in direct improvements in daily operations; they discover “lost” sales orders, work orders, purchase orders, etc.  They analyze inventory in surprisingly direct, simple and beneficial ways. 

 

Doug can bring out the best in warehouse workers.  He provides accountability measures, encouragement plans, and lowers the overall cost of delivery of products.  His improvements in efficiencies cause reductions in inventory and reductions of waste of materials and time.

 

Doug is a long time resident of the San Fernando Valley, and enjoys time and activities with his wife and son.

 

 

 

Additional Resources 

 

From time-to-time other consultants, former CEO's, even former business owners are brought in to make improvements, suggestions, and give reality checks with their hands-on experience so that our clients don't make mistakes by trial-and-error based business tactics.  We have some extraordinary visionaries that can assist in making mission critical decisions.