Michael Manahan

Mr. Manahan is an educator financial strategist, and change expert. During his successful career as a financial executive and consultant Mr. Manahan developed a keen interest in organizational structure and design, and the role that it plays in organizational success. Consequently in 2006 Mr. Manahan enrolled at Pepperdine University in the doctorate of organization change program. Mr. Manahan is currently working on his doctoral dissertation. He received his masters of business administration from Pepperdine in 1992.

As a financial advisor, consultant and hands-on practitioner, Mr. Manahan has developed the Strategic Quadrant Theory of operational success. That Theory’s model pictures a successful business enterprise as a matrix or web that intertwines strategy, capital, leadership and organizational design resulting in a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. Operational success is put at risk by the enterprise that focuses excessively on one quadrant, at the expense of another.

Mr. Manahan has worked with more than 100 management teams, as an external consultant or advisor, and as a member of the management team. He has held the position of chief financial officer for four companies, including three publicly traded companies and a division of a multi-billion dollar furniture manufacturer. He has held senior finance positions in a number of other companies.

Mr. Manahan has more than 30 years of financial, executive, organizational and strategic management experience with a diverse group of companies operating in such sectors as real estate development, industrial distribution, consumer and industrial services, computer software, Internet, healthcare, food manufacturing, entertainment, energy, furniture manufacturing and consumer products. Further, Mr. Manahan has assisted companies in structuring and completing joint ventures, acquisitions, divestitures, financings and reorganizations, as well as coaching companies through the pre-IPO stage. Mr. Manahan has extensive experience in SEC reporting, corporate finance, public markets, investor relations and corporate development.

Mr. Manahan is a Certified General Accountant (comparable to a CPA) in the province of British Columbia, Canada, and a graduate of the British Columbia Institute of Technology with a major in financial management. Mr. Manahan is author of the layman’s guide to corporate finance, “The Secrets to Raising Capital.”