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John Vlachos is an accomplished Financial Executive with extensive and diversified globalexperience in Finance, General Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sales and Operations. Expertise with turning around and growing businesses, in nonprofit, media and professional services organizations with international, start-up, joint venture, digital, e-commerce, mature, hospitality and real estate business units. He has managed long-term debt, including compliance. He is a motivated, energetic leader who delivers financial, strategic and operating objectives in rapidly changing global environments.

He has served as the CFO / senior financial executive and member of the Executive team for five organizations (Lighthouse International, Time Inc., Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (PE Owned, Ripplewood Holdings), Chadbourne & Parke, LLP, and Ziff-Davis Publishing) with revenues of $30 million to $1.2 billion. John has led teams of 9 to 75+ in finance, strategy, investments, treasury, information technology, ERP systems and system integration projects, property management, long-term debt management and compliance, and ran a number of business units with P&L responsibility, including an international business unit. At each of the organizations, he led the effort to significantly increase liquidity and participated in crafting and executing strategic plans to grow and/or turnaround the business. He led negotiation and due diligence teams on over 20 transactions, with a total deal value of over $2.5 billion; deal size ranging from under $1 million to $1.6 billion. John and his teams pride themselves in the execution of their financial role, which has consistently resulted in clean and unadjusted audits, as well as partnering with leadership on the budget/forecast process, and providing excellent decision support, used to lead the organization and meet or beat its goals.

Most recently, John served as the SVP & CFO of Lighthouse International. As a key member of the executive team that executed a successful turnaround and strategic plan for the Lighthouse, he is proud to report that 2013 outperformed every financial metric in the last six years, including registering year-over-year revenue growth. John's stewardship of the Lighthouse resources led to: (a) an increase in liquidity of over $11 million; (b) an 80% increase in Conference Center revenues to $3.8 million, and its first profitable year ever; and (c) the building re-stack and marketing plan of additional space freed up for lease to third party tenants, with a target of doubling rental revenues to $4.4 million. The successful turnaround of the Lighthouse culminated in its recent merger with Jewish Guild Healthcare to form a $700 million agency, Lighthouse Guild. Having accomplished their objective to ensure that the mission of the Lighthouse continues for the next 100 years, through financial stability and sustainability, John then worked on the transition of the Lighthouse business to the Lighthouse Guild.