Feb 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 1 mo · New York, New York, United States

• BD Scaffolding was created to support entrepreneurs and venture investors in the Ocrolus network. Select investments include: NYDIG, Devron, FORTE, Differential Ventures, StoicLane, Laconia, Starting Line, FinTech Collective DeFi Fund, etc.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr

• Exercise creative destruction; conceive and execute initiatives to facilitate efficient growth.
• Select projects include:
• Centralized provider management system; created product allowing for a single person to apply uniform policies to managing 10,000+ global professionals; previous system relied on 30+ operations associates applying their own practices.
• Developed candidate self-scheduling tool; resulted in a 3x increase in number of weekly professionals on-boarded
• Transitioned call center operations from one service provider to another (2x efficiency and cost improvement).

May 2014 – Mar 2015 · 10 mos

• Managed P&L for the Chicago Market; oversaw local operations and business development efforts; grew market 4-5x.
• Hired and managed a team of 20+ full time and part-time employees. Roles ranged from operations to marketing.

Jan 2012 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Chicago, IL

• Played a dual role between AEG Partners and sister private equity firm, Access Value Investors (AVI). At AEG, Vik provided operational turnaround advisory and crisis management to middle market companies in distressed situations. At AVI, Vik focused on operational and strategic improvements within their portfolio companies, along with conducting due diligence on prospective acquisitions / investments.
• Conducted due diligence on eight target acquisitions, including: valuations, financial projections, capital structures etc.
• Directed operational improvements at AVI portfolio company; efficiencies created $1.2M (32%) EBITDA increase.
• Managed day-to-day operations of a distressed 85 person, $225M feed company:
• Successfully took company through a managed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and sold to Cargill.
• Resulted in majority (~80%) of employees retaining jobs and secured lender being fully repaid
• Developed / implemented emergency re-org to allow company solvency 8 wks past budget.
• Created budgets, cash flow forecasts and identified working capital and liquidity requirements. Supported all steps from the period leading to filing, through the bankruptcy, and to the eventual Section 363 sale.
• Identified areas for operational improvement, negotiated new vendor payment terms and managed payables within the company's constraints. Restructured company to provide emergency cash flow in order to get to sale.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs · Chicago, IL

• Industries served:
• Tech, Energy (natural gas, coal, solar, wind, hydro etc.), finance, chemicals, high-tech, telecom, etc.
• Functional areas:
• Operations, strategy, risk, innovation, etc.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 · 0 mo · Greater Chicago Area

• Industries served:
• Energy, high-tech
• Functional areas:
• Operations, strategy, innovation

Jan 2003 – Jan 2007 · 4 yrs · Buffalo-Niagara Falls Area

• Product Engineer for Flight Simulation
• Managed all engineering aspects of Moog’s initial Level D Commercial Electric Flight Simulator product. Responsibilities included securing customer specifications through to testing final hardware
• Performed final tuning on world’s first successfully certified, Level D (FAA) Electric Motion Flight Simulator; developed and drove production efficiencies to grow product revenues 36x, from $360K in 2004 to $13M in 2006.