East West Manufacturing CEO and leadership

Scott serves as CEO of East West Manufacturing and focuses his attention on company operations and systems. He has an extensive background in supply chain logistics, strategy and operations, and is particularly familiar with Asia and the company’s production facilities there. Before co-founding East West, Scott was the VP of Offshore Manufacturing and Logistics for DiversiTech Corporation. He co-founded ITS Ltd., an EMS manufacturer in Asia that makes automobile components and electronic assemblies, and began his career as a manufacturing and industrial engineer producing medical instruments for Boston Scientific. He worked for several years as a management consultant for PWC, focusing on logistics, strategy and operations. Scott graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering.

Jeff Sweeney is a Co-Founder at East West Manufacturing and Exec VP/Chief Marketing Ofcr at East West Manufacturing and is based in Greater Atlanta Area. He has worked as Engineer at Kimberly-Clark and VP Research and Engineering at DIVERSITECH CORP. Jeff works or has worked as Exec. VP, Partner at East West Manufacturing. He studied at GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECH between 1981 and 1985 and Glynn Academy between 1979 and 1981.

Highly accomplished finance and accounting executive with over 30 years of experience driving growth through capital raising, accounting, operating and international experience within start-ups and global billion dollar organizations. As CFO completed an IPO, led sale of PE backed company to large strategic buyer, served as public company Interim CEO and served on public company Board of Directors. Skills deployed in diverse industries including: business services, energy & smart grid with utility domain expertise, manufacturing, telecommunications and financial services.

Demonstrated record of initiative and success in:

- Growing, managing and positioning companies through successful venture and public funding cycles;

- Transformational business leader and strategic business partner;

- Utilizing data & analytics to drive increasing revenues and profitability;

- Completed 24 M&A transactions including deal sourcing, due diligence and integration;

- Operating executive for international business division;

- Building high functioning finance teams.

COMPETENCIES

- Equity & debt capital raising

- Strategic planning, business planning & analysis

- Data & analytics

- Insurance & risk management

- IPO, M&A, investor relations

- Leadership & communication skills

- Financial statement preparation

CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS

- Capital Raising - Over $750 million in equity and debt;

- Successful IPO - $400 million day one valuation, raising $110 million

- Successful company sale - Attractive multiple of current year EBITDA

- Strategic Acquisitions - acquisition targets totaling over $1.3 billion in value

- Emerging Market Launches - Successfully launched new business initiatives in South Africa, Turkey, Vietnam and Mexico

- 2019 CFO of the Year - Recognized by Atlanta Business Chronicle for medium private companies

- 2009 CFO of the Year - Recognized by Atlanta Business Chronicle for medium public companies

Ren Hezhong are a Chief Engineer at East West Manufacturing.