The company: Gahran & Zibbell Management L.L.C. turns around troubled businesses – and enhances successful ones – in months, rather than years.
We help companies in the Greater Philadelphia – Delaware Valley region (roughly an 80-mile radius from Philadelphia, PA) with key business challenges such as:
We find uniquely better ways to expand your existing products and markets, vastly improve your operating performance, or restructure your finances (including adding fresh capital). More about our services..
Primarily, we focus on serving medium-sized, privately held companies – especially manufacturers, wholesalers, and business-to-business (B2B) service companies. We also have extensive experience with family-owned businesseses.
We understand how to work with different personalities and complicated (even traumatic) situations
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Jack Gahran, Managing Director
(jack@gahran-zibbell.com)
Jack is particularly skilled at finding ways to significantly increase sales of existing products by making basic changes to marketing and selling strategies.
Through his hands-on approach, he shows manufacturing, wholesaling, and distribution companies how to significantly reduce inventories while substantially improving delivery performance.
Jack has achieved profit performance breakthroughs for companies in many industries, including:
Dave Zibbell, CPA, Managing Director
(dave@gahran-zibbell.com)
Dave's gift is creating unique restructurings of client balance sheets to position companies for sustainable growth. He figures out ways to generate extra cash from a company's assets. He also negotiates better deals with lenders than a company can on its own, and directs the purchase and sale of companies on behalf of clients.
Dave offers considerable insight into how to make succession planning work. He knows the hidden pitfalls and opportunities.
He also is an artful mentor who helps people understand financial statements. He demystifies accounting jargon so that you can more easily use financial information to your company's advantage.
Dave is a seasoned executive with considerable senior operating and financial management experience – serving as a corporate officer for five manufacturing and distribution firms. He has received court appointments as a "provisional director" of a "deadlocked corporation," and as a disbursing agent in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Dave's education: MS industrial management, MIT. BS electrical engineering, Rennselear Polytechnic Institute
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