Danny Loewen

Salt Lake City, UT 2013 to Present

Consumer products company specializing in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of proprietary art and jewelry.

Founder CEO

After launching the business from its startup stage, continued to lead all aspects of financial management and operations to support its ongoing rapid growth. Direct strategic planning, team development, vendor management, marketing sales, production, and order fulfillment. Conduct monthly and annual evaluations of company performance. Oversee and approve product pricing decisions, and coordinate activities of production and operations teams to ensure the highest quality of customer satisfaction. Manage 9 employees.

• Built business from initial planning and startup into a $3.5M enterprise with world-class vendors and a growing global account base.

• Scaled business operations and staff to successfully meet growth needs, which included relocating to a larger facility. Identified and developed relationships with leading distributors and vendors.

Salt Lake City, UT 2009 to 2013

Industry leader in the leasing and rental, of medical equipment with a $450M leasing portfolio.

Senior Vice President Chief Credit Officer

Promoted from initial role as VP of Credit to SVP Chief Credit Officer. Directed all aspects of credit/risk operations, including pricing and capital partnership development/management. Established and maintained sound and consistent policies, procedures, and guidelines to maintain an optimal balance of risk management and credit extension. Led contract and legal negotiations with capital partners, vendors, and customers.

• Facilitated 50% growth in leasing portfolio by broadening capital partner relationships, establishing exceptional risk/credit standards, and maintaining industry leading portfolio performance.

• Enhanced the company's competitive advantage by streamlining legal agreements and processes between capital partners and vendors, which provided greater agility and productivity.

• Spearheaded due diligence efforts of new vendor and capital partnerships.

Led team of 28 direct reports overseeing operations of 2 high-volume call centers staffed by 650+ representatives in the U.S. and India. Provided strategic leadership and direction to optimize customer servicing capabilities, while improving efficiencies in operations, staffing, and application processing.

• Received AMEX Performance Award for development of new staffing model that eliminated need for 45 FTEs and increased operational capacity by 28%

• Presented staffing model to AMEX CEO, which was adopted as a best practice across AMEX call centers.

• Implemented Six Sigma methodologies, which reduced aging application inventory.

Promoted to direct sales and operations for the company’s largest of 4 retail mortgage business origination centers. Directly led management teams in addition to coordinating the workflow of 100+ employees. Oversight of all functional areas, including production, regulatory compliance, budget administration and HR.

• Turned around the lowest performing sales/operations site in the country and transformed it into the top- producing site in 90 days; maintained site’s #1 position in overall production volume.

• Selected by CEO to direct the strategic restructuring of all business centers across GE Home Finance as the company exited the home lending business. Exceeded financial plan by 45% while incurring zero unwanted employee attrition during wind down.

• Named to GE’s executive Talent Acceleration Program; 2-time recipient of Outstanding Leadership and Business Impact awards.

Led targeted production initiatives, which included identifying and deploying global best practices, with analytical process improvement strategies, and cross-functional training. Drove alignment in operations and sales functions to increase production.

• Increased monthly funded volume by 78% while reducing application-to-fund cycle time by 58%.

• Expedited loan processing by designing a streamlined and uniform underwriter exception process.

Upon completion of business school, selected as one of 150 program members, from a field of 13,000+ candidates worldwide. Led strategic marketing and sales initiatives, including Six Sigma Black Belt Certification, across a variety of GE businesses and locations. These included Global Business Finance, Commercial Insurance-Healthcare, and Vendor Financial Services.

• Oversaw international sales team in development and implementation of prospect profiling database that generated a benefit of $1.2M.

• Directed Six Sigma Black Belt project team in restructuring underwriting pricing guidelines, adopted as best practice across GE Reinsurance, which yielded a $2M gross margin improvement on a $130M product line.

• Led Six Sigma project team for a $110M strategic customer that delivered $350K liquidity improvement in 90 days through accounts receivable reductions.