CHARLES (CHUCK) H. ADAMS
EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT, SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT & INSTRUCTOR

Speciality Highlights

  • Finance and Corporate Governance:
    Broad and deep experience in transactional finance, commercial banking, budgeting, strategic planning, treasury, financial management and investor relations.
  • International and Cross Border Business: Have lived in nine countries, done business in another 24 and visited a total of 86. Long record of successful negotiations and management of commercial situations in Europe and Asia.

Professional Experience

BEKKER COMPLIANCE CONSULTING PARTNERS, LLC (BCCP)
BEKKER COMPLIANCE INSTITUTE (BCI)
Independent Consultant – 2008 to Present

Chuck is an Executive Consultant and Instructor with Bekker Compliance Consulting Partners, LLC (BCCP). He provides consulting and training, in his areas of expertise, to BCCP’s financial services clientele.

MANNA ENERGY LIMITED, Isle of Man
CFO
2008 – Present

Manna Energy is using space technology to create self-sustaining, environmentally friendly, basic infrastructure such as its solar-powered water purification project in Rwanda.

VASCULARCURES, THE FOUNDATION FOR ACCELERATED VASCULAR RESEARCH,
South San Francisco
Chairman
2008 - Present

  • VascularCures supports basic and clinical research seeking early identification and treatment of vascular disease. The Foundation sponsors a research facility at UCSF and a program to support physician scientists in their early stage research.

2005 – 2008
BIOPRO PHARMACEUTICAL, INC., San Francisco, California
CFO and Secretary

Joined my previous CEO from United Medical with initiation of operations.

  • Closed Series A round of $8 million
  • Part of team that secured eight product licenses
    • Member of team that acquired 80% of Chinese pharmaceuticals distribution company (only the second foreign company to do so)

2000 – 2005
INNERGY POWER CORP., Scotts Valley, California
CFO and Secretary

Recruited by principal institutional investor to help with distressed situation

  • Renegotiated legacy payments with court-appointed trustee
  • Engineered balance sheet from weakness to strength, oversaw cost savings and other efficiencies
  • Company was successfully sold in 2006 to a public company, ECOtality, Inc.

1998 – 2000
UNITED MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL GROUP, INC., South San Francisco, California
Chief Financial Officer

Recruited by CEO, former head of Asia/Pacific for SmithKlineBeecham, who in turn was personally recruited by Masayoshi Son, the then new lead investor. Restructured US firm operating via three joint ventures in China; grew sales revenues from $3 million to $7 million.

1995 – 1998
INDEPENDENT BUSINESS CONSULTANT

Advised a variety of clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

1994 – 1995
ZACSON CORPORATION, Pleasanton, California
President, International Division

  • P&L responsibility for launching international operations; played major role in $30 million sales growth
  • Successfully negotiated 3 global joint ventures and acquisitions

1993 – 1994
XATRIX INTERACTIVE DESIGN, INC., Burbank, California
Chairman/CEO

Co-founded entertainment software organization; developed gameware for CD-ROM players for Canon, NEC and Fujitsu in form of three successful titles, then negotiated sale of company to private equity firm.

1988 – 1993
WORLD/WHARF GROUP, Hong Kong
Senior Vice President, CFO and Member of the Board of Directors, Omni Hotels
Managing Director, Wheelock North America, Inc.

Directed North American financial operations; integrated Omni Hotels acquisitions; led expansion; managed 48 staff.

1987 – 1988
PINGLE ASSOCIATES, New York, New York
Managing Director

  • Sold Acoustiguide (at the time, the global leader in recorded tours of exhibits, historical sites and museums) on behalf of its shareholders to a private equity firm
  • Completed a BOT (Build-Own-Transfer) project advisory assignment for a subsidiary of Asea BBC involved in a major power transmission project in Turkey

1986 – 1987
CAMBRIDGE FINANCIAL GROUP, INC., Greenwich, Connecticut
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Part of consulting/operating team that turned losses to profits at NMR of America.

1972 – 1986
THE CHASE MANHATTAN CORPORATION, New York, New York

Started as credit analyst, held positions of increasing responsibility in both capital markets and commercial banking, culminating in the posts of Deputy General Manager, Japan, and Division Executive, New York.

Education

Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Stanford Executive Program

University of Virginia

BA, English

Other

  • Series 7, 24, 63 and 65 securities licenses
  • US Army, Artillery officer, Airborne units in Germany and Vietnam