Business Biography

Jeff Harbaugh has 20 plus years experience working with companies that:

•  Are growing quickly
•  Need to respond to new market conditions
•  Face new competitive challenges

Find that what worked in the past isn't working any more
•  Are growing faster than their management capabilities
•  Have issues of financial adequacy
•  Aren't meeting the owner's personal goals.

Since 1991, he's focused exclusively on action sports.

For twelve years, he has been the author of the Market Watch column and other business focused articles in the TransWorld Business publications. His writing has also appeared in Ski Area Management, as “The Harbaugh Report” on the SAM web site, in the National Association of Ski Areas Journal, and in Snowsports Industry of America publications.

Jeff has been a speaker for the Board Retailer's Association, at SIA's Las Vegas Trade Show, TransWorld Snowboard Conferences, the National Ski Areas Association annual convention, TransWorld Skateboarding Conference, and for the Scuba Diving Industry Conference.

He has prior experience in banking, corporate development, strategic planning and turnaround management. He received his MBA in finance from The Wharton School.

Experience:

Selected Consulting Clients.  Reef, Sims Sports, International Association of Skateboard Companies, Nitro Snowboards, Chapman Skateboards, Volant, Rad Air, Generics/Blax, TransWorld, American Snowboard Manufacturing, Generator (Swag, Prom, Twist), Animal.

Windline, Inc.  Chief Financial Officer, President.  Lead the turnaround of Nitro Snowboards US distributor.  Reduced a $1 million loss to break-even while increasing sales and holding overhead expense constant.

Ernst & Young Corporate Financial Services  Consulting Manager.  Managed consulting assignments in bankruptcy and reorganization.

Union Bank Management Consulting Department.  Vice President and Manager.  Sold and managed consulting assignments in financial planning, strategy and general management consulting.

G. H. Goldstick & Co.  Worked with companies in financial distress to restructure and turn them around.

ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc.  Director of Corporate Development, Assistant Treasurer.  Responsible for cash and bank relations.  Key participant in acquisitions and equity offerings including a successful initial public offering.

Jeff’s earlier experience includes three years in international banking and an assignment in Sao Paulo, Brazil.