Gene Drake
Vice President of Sales @Foley Products, A CMC Precast Business
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WORK HISTORY
Vice President of Sales @Foley Products, A CMC Precast Business
Newnan, GA, US
EDUCATION
Louisiana Tech University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Industrial Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT GENE DRAKE
Executive Leadership ProfessionalStrategic Enterprise Leader | Operations, Engineering, Sales & MarketingContact: g••••••••@gmail.com | 67••••••91Enterprise leader with expertise in operations, engineering, sales & marketing. Proven record of increased sales, production, quality and profitability. Articulate, results-oriented professional. Ability to evaluate and develop products and business lines that significantly contribute to organic growth. Expert at turning around under-performing businesses.Dynamic and motivational leader with the ability to evaluate employee strengths and weaknesses and improve both. Unique ability to motivate employees to increase performance while at the same time enjoying their work and peers more.Industry advocate with outstanding success developing relationships with legislators, specifying agencies and design engineers to promote our products.Core Competencies:• Strategic Leadership• Operations Management• Revenue Growth & Performance Optimization• New Business Development• Change Management & Turnaround Strategy• Client Relations & Promotion• Team Leadership & Motivation• Engineering & InnovationCareer Accomplishments:• With full P&L responsibility for an eight plant, four state region, grew top-line revenue by over 40% and EBITDA by over 55% by improving our core products, broadening our offerings and expanding target markets.• Executed a strategic and financial turnaround of a highly visible region of the world’s largest building materials supplier by recruiting a motivated sales and project management staff, improving production operations, transforming the product line offerings and broadening the customer base resulting in 13% average CAGR over five years.• Implemented lean manufacturing methods that decreased average throughput time from six weeks to nine days and reduced WIP inventory from $1.1MM to $400K.• Established task specific work cells which decreased required assembly hours and cut cycle time by 40% resulting in labor savings in excess of me at g••••••••@gmail.com with any Executive Leadership opportunities.
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