Jon Holz

Jon has twenty years of experience in operations due diligence, strategy consulting, and numerous corporate development roles. His broad background includes public and private organizations, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, as well as working with Private Equity firms and Investment Banks. He has worked across a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, consumer and industrial goods, and alcohol beverage distribution, leading and reorganizing teams while developing strategies to grow sales, increase operating income, and improve margins.

 

His accomplishments include:

 

Oversaw over twenty buy and sell-side due diligence deals and operations assessments, highlights include:

 

• Performed an operations assessment of an agricultural aircraft company in a turnaround situation, identifying a $1.7M in opportunities for optimizing and scaling operations to be carried out over an eighteen-month period.

• Conducted an operations assessment for a plastic injection molding company to evaluate three prior acquisition transactions and three productivity projects, identifying $630K in savings and a plan to recover in eight months.

• Utilized lean manufacturing techniques (Value Stream Mapping and Kaizen) to optimize a manufacturing process during an operations restructuring, leading to a 10% faster cycle time, a 15% improvement in quality, and a savings of $290K annually.

• Executed an inter-company transition of 950 product lines to strategic long-term US and Brazilian manufacturing facilities, which included outsourcing to Chinese manufacturers and saved $2.6M annually.