Laurence B. Valant

Larry is President of Valant & Company and has over 30 years of general management and strategic, organization, marketing, operations, IT, and executive compensation consulting experience. As the founder of Valant & Company, Larry's consulting leadership has extended from well-funded and successful start-ups (achieving first year profitable sales in excess of $35 million) to $2.0 billion + companies.

Beginning his professional career as a consultant with Touche Ross, Larry later became COO of an $800 million subsidiary of IU International. He has served as COO and CEO for several companies, and has managed significant projects for Samsonite Corporation, Associated Metals and Minerals, Hunter Douglas Corporation, Vitality Beverages, and Buffets, Inc., and numerous other companies involved in a variety of products and services.

As plant manager for a 1-million-square-foot, 1,500-person heavy manufacturing plant, vice president of product planning and marketing for a $500 million consumer products company; and having established executive compensation plans using Residual Income (RI) for many companies across a variety of industries, Larry has substantial functional expertise.

Larry founded Valant & Company in 1988. Since then, he and his partners have implemented Valant’s Effective Execution process in and successfully grown the value of over 65 client companies. These clients represent industries ranging from heavy manufacturing to distribution, accounting, pharmaceuticals, to transportation and automotive, to financial and professional services, to successful (yet today) e-commerce companies, to food service and restaurant companies, to aviation sales and service firms. With virtually all these clients, Valant & Company was able to help their CEOs and management teams implement execution approaches that led to making plan and growing company value predictably, as projected, and as expected by owners, stakeholders, and shareholders.

A former U.S. Marine, Larry attended Princeton and Indiana Universities where he earned his BS and MBA degrees with distinction.

Larry is the author of 5 Steps to Predictable Business Success (Or, how to get the elephants off the conference room table), available through most book stores and on his website at www.valantco.com.

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