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Roy L. Olofson
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Mr. Olofson has over 30 years of executive level financial
experience in merchandising and telecommunications. He has served as Vice
President Finance for Carter Hawley Hale Stores, with annual sales volumes
of $3 billion. He managed a staff of 125 people responsible for the
Company's treasury, internal auditing, corporate accounting, financial
reporting, federal and state income taxes, insurance and financial planning
functions. He had extensive involvement in the Company operations through
management of an internal audit staff consisting of 75 professional
auditors serving 12 operating divisions. He also managed treasury
activities including banking relations, public and private debt and equity
offerings, sales and leasebacks of property and establishment of a
commercial paper program.
As Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Fedco, Inc., Mr.
Olofson reported to the Chairman of the Board and was directly or
indirectly responsible for the day-to day management of the Company,
including merchandising, information technology, distribution, human
resources, real estate, finance and accounting. He developed an extensive
turnaround strategy to reverse Fedco's declining business. His strategy
focused on merchandising and marketing efforts, efficient distribution of
merchandise, reduction of personnel, budgeting of capital and operating
expenses. His strategy resulted in reduction in the company's workforce
from 7,000 to 5,000 people while continuing to maintain a high level of
customer service. Mr. Olofson led the development of information technology
strategy resulting in implementation of an integrated merchandising system,
an IBM warehouse/distribution system to track the flow of merchandise
through the central distribution center and a point-of-sale scanning system
allowing register checkers to scan all merchandise sold.
Prior to working with The Scotland Group, Inc., Mr. Olofson served as Vice
President Finance for an international telecommunications company with
revenues in excess of $5 billion and more than 17,000 employees. He
successfully managed the accounting department responsible for processing
all accounting data and financial reporting to the SEC. He led the
development of the budget process and was responsible for analysis of
accounting issues relating to merger and acquisition candidates.
Mr. Olofson received his B.S. in Business Administration from University of
California Los Angeles and attended the Advanced Management Program at
Harvard Graduate School of Business.
He served on the Board of Directors of California State University
Foundation, Los Angeles and Institute of Retail Management, California
State University, Los Angeles. Mr. Olofson is a Certified Public
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