Chuck Schaeffer

ISO certified Lead Auditor, Six Sigma Black Belt,
Malcome Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner , 2007 Board of Examiners. Member to enhance the competitiveness, quality and productivity of U.S. organizations and ambassador for the Baldrige National Quality Program.
CEO of Best Product Development Organization in America by ABA, 3 Product of the Year designations, etc.
Inspired entpreprenuer and leader with a record of building and growing successful enterprises.
With more than 16 years of leadership experience, Chuck has been a leading figure with high-growth, IPO and publicly traded organizations and has achieved a demonstrated track record of exceeding objectives, building shareholder value and developing market leading and industry dominating organizations. Chuck has held the CEO role in four technology organizations, all of which succeeded in achieving market niche leadership, triple digit growth and shareholder value with liquidity. Chuck retains strong experience across several functional areas, including strategic planning, business development (sales, marketing and advertising), Information Technology (IT), Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and finance. Chuck is a passionate performer (with a complete relentless pursuit of objectives) desirous of developing high growth environments and participating with talented management teams.

Platinum Software Corp.

Maker of client/server accounting, distribution and customer relationship management software.

Released first client/server software solution in world in October 1992.

The release triggered an IPO in November 1992 which raised approximaely $400 million.

A quick subsequent second offering raised approximately another $400 million.

The walls came crashing down in 1994.

Subject Matter Expertise

Strategic planning and tactical planning execution
Strength in business development, including exceeding revenue quotas, authoring formal sales methodologies, implementing sales processes and systems, performing sales management and achieving continuous sales performance improvement
Business Process Improvement (BPI) analysis and implementation
Best Practices achievements at the sales, operational and finance levels
Project leadership, project management and change management expert
Mergers & Acquisitions and subsequent integration of the sales, finance and information systems areas
Business information systems expertise, including SAP, Oracle and Great Plains ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems and Siebel and several middle market CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems
Business Intelligence systems expert, including data warehouses, OLAP’s, data mining and Executive Information Systems (EIS)
Thorough technical knowledge, including client/server computing, thin-client computing, e-commerce models, relational databases, platform technologies, software development management and Internet and information systems security expert