Michael J. Love Resume Details

Successful high energy, hands on, results oriented professional with strong P&L focus. Domestic and international experience in a multitude of financial disciplines including risk identification, risk measurement, risk mitigation, financial engineering, corporate finance, strategic finance, and structured finance. Extensive experience in valuing entities, divisions and specific asset classes; project management; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, capital structure, debt capacity, debt ratings, financial flexibility and ROA and ROCE analysis

PROFILE

Corporate and Strategic Finance // Structured Finance // Financial Engineering
Enterprise Risk Management // Results Oriented //Strong P&L Focus 

High energy, hands on, task oriented professional with a demonstrated track record in developing and closing transactions consistent with established objectives.  Effective change agent with in-depth strategic, analytical and transactional skills developed over twenty plus years. Domestic and international public and private sector advisory experience at the CEO, COO, CFO and Ministerial levels.  

Specific skills sets include: 

	Experienced in transacting business in a multitude of industrial sectors including energy, transportation, automotive, consumer products and industrial manufacturing 

	Employing simulation and optimization analyses to identify firm-specific and systematic (market) risks. 

	Developing risk mitigation strategies utilizing derivatives and asset monetization structures designed to maximize ROCE. 

	Valuing diverse asset classes including private, public, early stage, real estate, financial services and distressed entities. 

	Analytical skills including fundamental, technical, economic, statistical, and real options.  

	Capital structure analysis addressing optimum capital structure, debt capacity, debt ratings and financial flexibility. 

	Conversant with the accounting and tax compliance issues associated with structured transactions.

EXPERIENCE

Financial and Risk Management Advisor	New York, NY 

Provides risk management, investment banking, valuation and strategic planning and consulting services to companies in various industrial sectors, including energy, in Canada, United States and Mexico.  

Financial Adviser – Eaton Power Developers (“Eaton”)
Nov 2005 – July 2006	

Financial and strategic adviser to Eaton Power Developers Inc (“Eaton”) with mandate encompassing: 
	Review of financial forecast and budgets,
	Risk identification and entity valuation employing DCF, market comparable, simulation and real options analysis, 
	Determination of the optimum capital level, capital structure, investor universe, selling strategy and exit strategy.  

BMO Nesbitt Burns 	New York, NY 

2000 - 2005 	Vice President - Structuring Commodity Derivatives Group

	Responsible for the development and marketing of asset conveyance structures centered on value creation, risk mitigation and risk transference encompassing inventory monetization, fixed asset monetization, proxy hedges, volumetric prepays, volumetric production payment, and enhanced oil recovery structures,  
	Assisted in the development of tax effective swap monetization structures,
	Developed both hedging and proxy hedging strategies as well as credit enhancement hedges, 
	Developed Commodity Linked Principal Protected Notes incorporating bull, bear, range and basket note structures, 
	Retained to advise on natural gas storage monetization and financing strategies for both public and private companies,
	Average annual revenues - $800,000.

1995 - 2000	Vice President - BMO Global Capital Solutions
	Provided corporate valuation, capital structure, debt rating and non-recourse project financing transactional analysis services to both internal and external clients, 
	Developed and executed asset monetizations structures, 
	Developed synthetic lease and monetization structures for the Canadian and Mexican marketplaces while developing basis for similar structures in European countries,  
	Secured 10 lease mandates with companies in the engineering, manufacturing, automotive, energy and transportation sectors. 
	Fee generation approximated $1,000,000 annually.

1993 - 1995	Vice President - Structured Finance  
	Provided corporate valuation and transactional analysis services while averaging three new clients and revenues of approximately $1,200,000 per year.

FULCRUM INTERNATIONAL LTD.       Greenwich, CT.
1990-1993	Managing Director 

	Provided corporate finance and valuation services on a retainer basis, 
	Initiated and developed capital structure and acquisition strategies for Pfizer, Imasco, Inter-City Products and BCE,
	Developed hybrid equity structures to facilitate acquisitions,
	Initiated and developed real estate advisory marketing program targeted at corporate restructuring,
	Assessed and valued start-up proposals including business plans, budgets and offering memoranda.

SCOTIA McLEOD (formerly McLeod, Young, Weir)  - New York, NY
1986-1990 	Vice President and Director - Corporate Finance

	Developed screening/valuation models for use by investment banking, research, and equity departments,
	Initiated privatization strategies for Goodyear Canada, Hoechst-Celanese, Xerox Canada and Campbell Soup,
	Developed asset utilization financing strategies for Unisys, Firestone, Reynolds Aluminum and Scott Paper, 
	Provided internal valuation services.

BANK of MONTREAL  Prior to 1986
Vice President - Global Relationship Manager – New York, NY 

                    Achieved domestic portfolio ROA of 164 basis points versus a bank wide target of 70 basis points,
                    Developed and successfully implemented global relationship marketing plans resulting in a global exposure approximating $2.2 billion with domestic authorizations and outstandings were in excess of $800mm and $300mm respectively,
	Assisted in the development of the Bank's effort in the LBO market by developing and implementing a marketing strategy concentrating on large corporate restructuring and divestitures resulting in excess of seven management buyout financings.

Vice President - Corporate Latin America - Montreal, Canada
                      Developed a five-year strategic plan for Latin America focusing on curtailment of local private sector lending activities thus avoiding in excess of $100mm in potential losses,
	Upgraded overall portfolio quality through cultivation of Multinational corporations resulting in the development of 10 new relationships and exposure of $100mm.

Representative   - Mexico City, Mexico 
	Generated fees of approximately $3mm while establishing 15 new accounts with ROA of approximately 125 basis points over a four year period.

IBM
	Controller and credit function for marketing division.

EDUCATION
	M.B.A., Corporate Finance, York University, Toronto, Canada ,	B. Com., Economics, Loyola College, Montreal, Canada

OTHER
	Frequent Speaker at Industry Conferences on Domestic and Cross Border Monetization Strategies sponsored by Euromoney, Structured Finance Institute, and Institute for Financial Research 
	Member of Global Association of Risk Professionals

	LANGUAGES and COMPUTER SOFTWARE
                     Working knowledge of French and Spanish
	KMV, Hyperion, Fincad, LIM, Decisioneering - Simulation and Real Option software, SmartDraw. Microsoft Office