Sean Quinn

Established a private consulting firm that specializes in adding operational and financial controls for growth companies, helps to properly structure companies to allow for growth, establishes strategic plans, raises growth capital and consults with acquisition groups to help them analyze their potential acquisition targets.

Seaside Vacations is one of the leading vacation property management firms on the Outer Banks of North Carolina with approximately 400 homes under management. Coldwell Banker Seaside is the largest residential real estate brokerage in Northeast North Carolina with 50 sales agents and nearly $200 million in projected closed transactions in 2017

• Full P&L control over both companies.
• Six direct reports including the CFO, General Manager, Director of Marketing, Director of Business Development and the VP of Sales.
• Over 50 full time employees, 150 seasonal employees and 50 independent sales agents
• Evaluated, selected and currently implementing a new property management system. The new system is an integrated CRM, marketing, booking, property management and website software that will allow Seaside Vacations to streamline operations and marketing.
• Restructured the management scoreboards to move to a goal oriented weekly tracking system emphasizing results against KPI’s to hold individual managers accountable.

Founded Foxcode, an operationally focused private equity firm specializing in growth oriented companies from startups to mid market companies in the technology, telecommunications, infrastructure, renewable energy, natural resources, project finance, retail food and beverage and real estate sectors.

• Negotiated and Structured equity and debt financings of acquisitions and dispositions, post-acquisition integration and operational and financial improvement in portfolio companies.
• Acted as co-President of a portfolio company, adding financial and organizational structure, negotiating and executing long term structured contracts with Fortune 50 clients; increased revenue from approximately $90MM to over $500MM in a three year span and improved EBITDA margins from less than 9% to greater than 11%.
• Recruited and managed a team of investment professionals including analysts, associates and vice presidents in addition to support and administrative personnel.
• Managed relationships with equity investors, including both high net worth individuals and institutions, as well as with lenders and other investment firms.
• Opened offices and worked in London, Miami and Philadelphia.
• Extensive international experience in the United Kingdom, Europe, India and China as well as Brazil, Singapore, and the Caribbean.

Gaming VC acquired the assets of a German language online gaming enterprise by performing a back-to-back acquisition and IPO on the London Stock Exchange. The asset was acquired for €105 million and floated at €160 million while the Principals retained approximately 32% of the publicly traded shares.

• Performed essential due diligence, negotiations, explored various sources of funding for the initial acquisitions/IPO and worked closely with counsel to design the international tax structure and to ensure that the company complied with all international and US laws.
• Led the investor relations, banking, maintenance of the international tax structure and audit functions of the publicly traded entity post IPO.
• Established the international banking structure to comply with tax codes, anti-money laundering practices and dividend cash flows to the publicly traded LSE traded entity.
• Installed Financial and Accounting Systems to take the company from non-publicly traded accounting and financial control standards to a full public company audit performed by KPMG within the first six months.
• Instrumental member of the business development and corporate strategy team, analyzing and negotiating entry into new geographic markets and products, potential acquisitions and offers to purchase.

• Highland was a real estate investment entity that invested in single tenant triple net properties nationally and conversions of former factories into condominiums. The Principals wound this venture down to concentrate on the Gaming VC transaction.

• Performed financial analysis using Excel, Argus and proprietary software and databases to analyze potential investments based on individual property characteristics, overall economic conditions and local real estate market conditions in a formal two year analyst training program.