Cameron is a Senior Director with ten years of experience in complex financial modeling, liquidity management, business plan assessments, lean manufacturing/manufacturing operations improvement, industrial engineering, global product and material sourcing, corporate risk assessment, and internal audit & contract assessment.
With Accordion, Cameron has partnered with management and sponsors of both private equity backed companies as well as distressed debtors to improve operations and increase liquidity across a variety of industries. Representative Accordion engagements include managing tight liquidity for a specialty vehicle parts provider while leading profitability improvement projects to stimulate internal cash flow, leading sourcing initiatives for an HVAC parts distributor, 13-week cash flow forecasting for a distressed frozen foods manufacturer enabling a re-financing, quantifying facility consolidation efforts for a boat seat manufacturer and marketing to potential buyers, and preparing and/or reviewing yearly/monthly budgets for a variety of industries.
Prior to joining Accordion, Cameron served as a Senior Associate for GE’s Corporate Audit Staff, where he provided business strategy and assessment, operational improvement, and financial due diligence across GE’s various businesses including: GE Aviation, GE Power, LM Wind Power, GE Digital, GE Renewables, Baker Hughes, and GE Oil & Gas. Representative engagements include increasing the throughput of wind turbine blades through the use of lean-six-sigma tools and manufacturing process improvements, minimizing Military F414 engine downtime through the one-time injection of a rotable pool of parts, reducing NWC for GE90 aircraft engines by transferring inventory ownership to supplier consigned inventory, reducing base-cost for GE Power through the evaluation of 7 site closures and transfers of work, and right-sizing the fair value of legacy Baker Hughes inventory assets during it’s $32B acquisition in order to book an $89M manual journal entry write-down.
Prior to GE Corporate, Cameron also served in a number of manufacturing, supply chain leadership, and operations/process improvement roles with GE Oil & Gas as part of GE’s Operations Management Leadership Program including serving as an Operations Production Supervisor, managing a team of 21 shop-floor operators in the production/shipment of oilfield Beam Pumping Units, a Strategic Sourcing Commodity leader, identifying procurement deflation opportunities, and as a Process Quality Engineer, reducing the cycle time of the shop’s largest bottleneck/constraint. During his time working in supply chain operations, Cameron became a certified Six Sigma Greenbelt, leveraging this methodology & way of thinking through all facets of his work.
Cameron graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering with Minors in Economics and Six Sigma from The Pennsylvania State University, College of Engineering in University Park, PA.