CHARLES H. ADAMS
SENIOR CONSULTANT and
FACULTY MEMBER & INSTRUCTOR

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

BEKKER COMPLIANCE CONSULTING PARTNERS, LLC
BEKKER COMPLIANCE INSTITUTE
Independent Consultant and Instructor
2009 – Present

Chuck is an independent Senior Consultant under contract with Bekker Compliance Consulting Partners, LLC (BCCP). He provides specialized consulting and education/training services, in his areas of expertise described below, to BCCP’s financial services clientele.

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

Accomplishments:

  • 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 ever to succeed in doing so)

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

    Accomplishments:

  • Renegotiated legacy payments with court-appointed trustee
  • Engineered balance sheet from weakness to strength
  • Successfully sold company in 2006

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

    Accomplishments:
    Restructured US firm operating via three joint ventures in China; grew sales revenues from $3 million to $7 million.

    Independent Business Consultant
    1995 – 1998

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

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

    Accomplishments:

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

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

    Accomplishments:
    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.

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

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

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

    Accomplishments:

  • 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)

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

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

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

    Started as credit analyst, held positions of increasing responsibility culminating in promotion to Deputy General Manager, Japan, and Division Executive, New York

    SELECTED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

  • Senior Management:
    History of senior management positions at a wide variety of companies.
  • 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 twenty-four and visited a total of eighty two. Long record of successful negotiations and management of commercial situations in Europe and Asia.
  • Entrepreneurial:
    Co-founded a successful games software firm, ran it as CEO and sold it at a profit to a well- known private equity group.

    • EDUCATION

    1983, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
    Stanford Executive Program

    1969, University of Virginia
    BA, English

    1969 - 1971, MILITARY:
    US Army, Artillery officer, Airborne units in Germany and Vietnam

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