Services : Robert Amter

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Operates as:

Chief Executive Officer
Executive Chairman
Chief Restructuring Officer

Consultant or Adviser to creditors, boards of directors or owners.

Turning around severely distressed, bankrupt businesses.

Improving profitable but under-performing operations.

Participate in due diligences prior to the acquisition of portfolio company in the auction environment with limited information and tight time constraints.

Diagnose a company’s operating condition including problem identification with corrective actions and capital required.

Write strategic and operating plans of distressed and profitable companies. Judge existing management’s plan.

Write the plan of reorganization required for a company to exit from bankruptcy court.

Advise creditor committees.

Participate in restructuring negotiations with debt and equity holders.

Evaluate, judge and train Chief Executive Officers and management teams.

Testify in State and Federal Court.

Acquisition of foreign-based companies, including China.

Establish and manage operations in Mexico, China, Europe.

Serve on Boards of Directors.

Channel Segment Experience:

High-tech aerospace,

Consumer big-box retail,

Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM),

Industrial products,

Plumbing,

Food service equipment,

Power transmission.

Condition of companies managed range from:

Severely distressed, bankrupt to;

Profitable but underperforming.

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Reason I wrote my book “Learn to Whisper”

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The reason I wrote “Learn to Whisper”:

My conclusion after operating as a Turnaround Chief Executive Officer for more than twenty-five years is that the majority of this country’s top management is far from first-rate. In fact top management, particularly at the chief executive officer level, is at best average with a large number that can be rated mediocre. This lack of management competence has seen this country’s market leaders lose sizeable market share to foreign manufacturers able to export better quality and lower cost products to the USA. It has seen manufacturing and service operations unnecessarily moved to foreign countries. All of which has negatively affected the economy, severely damaged former blue-chip corporations and seen quality jobs lost.

It is quite common to discover that companies struggling with this inability to compete with foreign companies have been simply mismanaged. The once successful business deteriorated because of an incompetent chief executive officer and weak senior management

Why doesn’t this nation have first-rate management? Inadequate training. Chief executive officers and vice presidents learn “on the job”. A number get promoted based on personality, political connections and drive – not merit. They are not carefully screened for the potential to become successful at managing. For some all that is needed is a well-written resume, the right interviewing style and the inability of a new employer to accurately assess skills, performance and potential.

Compare this to the process doctors go through. From medical school to internship to residency to a senior role after years of education, experience and continuous training their progress and capabilities are constantly monitored even after they become senior in the profession. Generals and Admirals go through a similar protocol. They must prove themselves in low-level assignments before they are judged qualified for senior positions. Unqualified applicants in both professions are culled out. What can be done to improve management competence? Education, on-the-job training and job performance monitoring. My book will educate people on the subject of managing. Its 101 management lessons are separated into the 17 subjects managers need to know.

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