Al Gever is a seasoned business executive with a strong track record of creating business value. He has over 30 years of general and financial management experience in consumer products, with a career focus in finance, planning and business development, and procurement. He has built and led high-performance teams at multi-billion dollar organizations as well as small and start-up enterprises and has a track record of leveraging his entrepreneurial leadership style and broad business background to deliver strong results.

Al's current consulting assignments include: (i) acting as President of an import company, leading the introduction of a unique beverage from Europe into the US market; and (ii) acting as Chief Financial Officer of an emerging beverage company, providing leadership and support in the areas of general management, capital raising, and financial modeling/forecasting.

Previous Positions & Key Accomplishments:

Al served as Chief Financial Officer of the Ultimate Juice Company where he restructured the portfolio of the Company, divesting assets to provclasse portfolio focus, reduce debt and optimize cash flow. He Designed and implemented financial controls and reporting systems to monitor performance.

Before joining the Ultimate Juice Company, Al spent the obligatory time in the internet start up business as Co-Founder & President of ShareMax, Inc. He started the tech-based strategic procurement business raising nearly $20m in investment capital.

Al served as Executive Vice President, Beatrice Foods Group — ConAgra, Inc. and led the integration of ConAgra's acquisition of the Nabisco Refrigerated Foods Group. He created the strategy for the newly-integrated $1.5bn business.

Prior to joining Con Agra, Al served as General Manager & Chief Financial Officer of Nabisco's Refrigerated Foods Group which included Egg Beaters, Snackwells' Chocolate Yogurt, Flesichman's and Blue Bonnet margarines, etc. In his position he led the development of Nabisco's Private Label Margarine business and cholesterol lowering spreads. He led the acquisition of Kraft North American Tablespreads $200m business which became the best performing acquisition at Nabisco in 20 years. He then sold Nabisco's Refrigerated Food Group, a division that was not profitable until he took the reigns, to Con Agra for $500m, $100m over the expected price.

Prior to that, Al served as Vice President of Global Procurement at Nabisco during which time he developed word class procurement strategies for this multi national, multi-billion dollar company. Nabisco saved over $300m dollars because of Al's strategies.