Paul F. Patek
Senior Managing Director, Source Companies, LLC

Paul Patek is a Senior Managing Director of Source Capital, Ltd. Mr. Patek has roughly 25 years of finance and operations experience with large manufacturing companies including their distribution divisions. Mr. Patek’s responsibilities with Source include providing interim C Level executive services, consulting with primary shareholders, board or C Level executives of companies, and preparing companies for, and monitoring the performance of companies, through significant growth or improvement initiatives. He is experienced with developing and executing growth strategies and operational improvement initiatives, managing supply chain and outsourcing initiatives, overseeing the installation and upgrades of business process measurement or financial reporting systems, and managing the income statement, cash flow, balance sheet and financial controls over operations. He also has considerable experience with acquisitions including whole businesses or business units, operating assets, product lines and intellectual property. Mr. Patek has had C level experience for the past fifteen years including at the level of the board of directors, and also with regard to business operations and financial reporting to sophisticated private investors and overseeing and driving results for shareholders.

Mr. Patek has recently served as the interim SVP Finance for Energy Alloys, LLC, a $400 million value added distributor and light manufacturer of specialty metals components used by large OEMs in the manufacture of energy production equipment. Mr. Patek’s previous experience includes: (i) serving for several years as President and CEO, Cabinet Management Services, a $275 million building products manufacturer and distributor, (ii) serving as Senior Vice President Finance (1994-1998) and then as President of Fisher Scientific International’s $1.5 billion Scientific Research Manufacturing and Distribution Division, (iii) serving at Chrysler Corporation from 1985 to 1993 in a comprehensive series of senior financial roles across a broad range of functions – Treasury, Investor Relations, Corporate Finance, M&A, Financial Planning and Analysis and Accounting, and (iv) beginning his career as a certified public accountant (CPA) with Peat Marwick and rapidly advancing from an accounting assistant to a Supervisor/Manager. Mr. Patek obtained a BBA from University of Michigan in 1981 and has completed a substantial number of graduate courses in finance and accounting. He resides in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.

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