More About Jody A. Ruth, CEO, NACD.DC

Ms. Ruth began her career at KPMG where she consistently earned awards for client service and received commendations from clients for her value in closing capital transactions. Subsequently, she held a variety of senior executive positions in finance, supply chain, and re-engineering, with global responsibilities as General Manager at AOL, GTE Corp, GTE Wireless, and TWA.

Since founding Redstones, Ms. Ruth has partnered with her clients to achieve outstanding successes.  Highlights include:

• Developing carrier relationships and leading efforts for structuring deal terms for a major media company creating a Mobile Virtual Network Operator(MVNO).
• Serving as CFO for a mobile satellite service provider through its high-growth period, managing cash and production, ensuring the business was self-funded and profitable, and culminating in its sale to a public company.
• Developing customer profitability models for a professional services agency, resulting in negotiations with a major customer that led to a doubling of profit.
• Developing a revised operating plan for a venture-backed company that was successfully implemented by the company to achieve its operational goals.
• Identifying the need for a revised strategy to include productization of IP for a professional services firm, resulting in record growth from implementing this strategy.
• Revising the selling strategy for a professional services firm for individual projects to a multi-year blanket agreement with specifics to be specified throughout the term.  The win-win result was an immediate backlog in excess of current year revenues and increased efficiency for both customers and client due to focus on delivery and not negotiations.