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BIOGRAPHY
MICHAEL W. ANDERSON
Michael Anderson, the founder and managing partner of Eclipse Corporate Development, has more than 12 years of professional experience in finance and operations management. For the last five years, he has served as a consultant specializing in financial and strategic turnarounds to protect owners’ equity. He is proven in negotiations and organizational development change management.
His management consulting experience includes:
- Development of a successful operations closure exit strategy for a West Coast-based medical supply chain.
- Design and implementation of a successful financial and strategic turnaround plan for the non-profit organization whereby the organization achieved revenues over expenses within six months and cash flow increased 1,000% within two years.
- Capital improvement planning for a rural Nevada hospital, and
- Operations start-up road-mapping and planning for an alternative fuels production company in the Midwest.
In addition to these projects, Mr. Anderson implemented a turnaround plan for the University of Nevada, Reno, computer labs. This plan eliminated several unprofitable departments’ redundant costs through consolidation, implemented 360-degree feedback, and marketed computer-related products and services. This resulted in a cost reduction of 24%, increased employee morale, and increased customer satisfaction by 10% -- all within eight months. As a part of this work, Mr. Anderson developed and implemented the lab’s budgeting model for salaries, future expansions and system updates, which is still in use.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Anderson founded and led four companies in California and Nevada. With one firm, he implemented a new marketing strategy for home computer service and sales that had yet to be offered in its region. He then founded a wholesale/retail distributor for major manufacturers, such as Casio, Maxell, and 3M. Focusing on aggressive hyper-growth management, accounts receivable and purchasing disciplines, this venture succeeded during a deep recession and foreign allocation limitations. Mr. Anderson later traded products ranging from commodities to consumer products through the establishment of one of the first and most popular Internet import/export trading boards, http://www.mblsales.com/Import_Export_Trading_Board/. Lastly, he assisted in networking international venture capitalists for projects greater than $1 million.
He continues in his role as president of MBL Sales, an OEM and compatible private label toner cartridge company. Using a continuous improvement management system, the company lowered the defect rate to less than 1% for the private label section, doubled sales eight out of the last nine years, and increased gross profit margins to 86% within one year.
Mr. Anderson is an adjunct faculty member in the undergraduate and graduate business management department at the University of Nevada, Reno. He instructs courses in strategic planning and turnarounds. His students consistently receive the Top 20 Global Business Strategy Game Competition award sponsored McGraw-Hill. Mr. Anderson recently co-developed a professional development seminar on crisis management during corporate turnarounds for the University of Nevada, Reno’s Extended Studies Program.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and a Master of Business Administration degree. Mr. Anderson serves as a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Trustee. He is also an examiner for the Nevada Governor’s Award for Performance Excellence (APEX), a state-level Malcolm Baldrige Award program. He served as a business coach for the Silver & Gold Venture Capital Conference and judge for the Governors Cup Student Business Plan Competition for the past three years. Mr. Anderson is also a member of the Young Venture Capital Society. He is currently a Director of the Nevada Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association and its 2007 program committee chair.
BIOGRAPHY
WILLIAM BORGES
Mr. Borges, a principal consultant with Eclipse Corporate Development, has more than 30 years consulting and management experience as a professional change agent. In business management, he restructured marketing and production departments as a part of a corporate turnaround team at ADAC Laboratories, a medical imaging company in Silicon Valley. The management system and culture changes introduced during the turnaround enabled the company to win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 1996.
He is currently assisting a rural Nevada hospital develop a capital improvements plan and producing an operations start-up road-map and planning process for an alternative fuels production company in the Midwest.
For the past 5 years he served as an internal management consultant at Renown Health – northern Nevada’s largest and most financially successful healthcare provider – where he adapted and introduced elements of a proven continuous improvement management system model. The results of this work are reflected in a 15-fold increase in annual profits, recognition by Verispan as a Top 100 Healthcare Network, and a 27-percent increase in patient satisfaction scores.
Early in the 2000s, Mr. Borges assisted a southern California cleanroom products company in successful negotiations to acquire a minority interest in a Malaysian nitrile glove manufacturing company. Once the deal was completed, he managed a capital improvement project at the Malaysian production facility to build a Class 10 cleanroom.
Other work during this period included the restructuring of a southern-California-based sporting goods marketing company. This included all financial and market planning, plus participation in successful negotiations to secure licensing and endorsement deals with Voit Sports, Tim Brown formerly of the Oakland Raiders, and Shaquille O’Neal formerly of the Los Angeles Lakers.
In his technical field, environmental management, Mr. Borges directed more than 100 scientific and technical studies, public policy assessments, and large-scale industrial facility closures for such clients as the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Defense, IBM, General Electric, Memorex Corporation, National Semiconductor, and the County of Santa Clara in the heart of Silicon Valley. One milestone project, the Denver Metro Area Clean Water and Air Program, received formal recognition for innovation in regional pollution control program streamlining and effectiveness from the President’s Council on Environmental Quality.
As a principal scientist and head of the environmental-management-system consulting practice for Midwest Research Institute (MRI) in the mid-1990s, he initiated and directed an Asian market entry program. This work included development and delivery of management system design and implementation seminars for the Korean National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, an agency of the South Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. MRI is the operator of the United States Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
His pro bono work includes service as an examiner for the Nevada Governor’s Award for Performance Excellence (APEX), a state-level Baldrige Award program. He also assists the executive director and board of directors of Nevada Hispanic Services in the area of organizational development planning and implementation. Earlier in his career he helped found Stellar Academy in Fremont, CA, an accredited private school for dyslexic children.
Mr. Borges is an adjunct faculty member in the undergraduate and graduate business management departments at the Northern Nevada campus of the University of Phoenix. He teaches courses in strategic planning, performance improvement, change management, international business, organizational behavior, and project management.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in geography (environmental management emphasis) from Sonoma State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix, Southern California Campus.
Other accomplishments include his service as a special investigations case controller with Army Intelligence in San Francisco during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Further, he is the: principal author of Performance Improvement for Healthcare Managers published by Washoe Health System, 2005; and, author of Planning the Creation and Implementation of World Standard Environmental Management Systems published jointly by the Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry and MRI, 1995. Lastly, he is listed in the current editions of Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Business and Finance, and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.
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