Mr. Richard Kennedy has several years of financial management experience coupled with five years of corporate strategy and turnaround consulting experience. He is extremely detailed oriented and has an excellent understanding of both profitability and growth strategies. Richard possesses unique leadership abilities and is capable of assisting both executive and lower level management.

Richard graduated from Wake Forest University in 1993 with a B.S. in Business Administration concentrating in Finance. He also obtained an M.B.A. from the University of Georgia in 1998 concentrating in Corporate Finance and Entrepreneurship.

Prior to receiving his Masters degree, Richard worked as a credit analyst for a large regional bank. He was responsible for analyzing the financial viability of corporate loan applicants and their potential debt facilities. He also spent several years as the financial manager for a $30 million oil distribution company where he managed $5 million of accounts receivable, developed all pro forma statements for financing purposes, and performed due diligence and valuation analysis for several acquisitions.

After leaving the University of Georgia, Richard spent over four years in Chicago as a corporate strategy consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. He was a member of the Value Based Management group which helped clients focus on the ideal combination of improved profitability and value accretive growth. As a consultant he assisted in creating and implementing process improvements, analyzing and reducing excessive cost centers, and performing asset portfolio analysis to identify value destroying areas of the business.

More specifically, Richard assisted several publicly traded oil and gas exploration companies perform scenario analyses to develop strategies for declining assets. He assisted in the development of multiple performance management systems that aligned appropriate key performance indicators with sophisticated business models. He developed complex financial models that measured the sensitivity of firm value to changes in specific value drivers. These sensitivities aided in appropriately managing operational and strategic changes.

Richard joined Aurora Management Partners early in 2002. Since then he has assisted in engagements across many industries including: light and heavy manufacturing, distribution, construction and agriculture. He has been responsible for managing inventory, purchasing and production functions, for developing micro-level cash management tools, and for developing refinancing packages targeted at financial institutions, factoring organizations, key creditors and private investors.

Richard currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia and is an active member of both the Atlanta and Nashville Turnaround Management Association. He has passed all parts of the Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) Exam and is in the process a packaging his remaining credentials to gain his CTP designation.