About Me

DANIEL T. BOGAR
dannybogar@yahoo.com / 305-632-4454

CEO/President looking for the opportunity to build a business or take a business to the next level by creating the strategy, building the team, executing, and communicating to the board. Highly skilled at developing the business plan, creating the strategy, putting the team together, executing, making money, and ultimately creating shareholder value.

Built a US Broker Dealer to $306 million in revenues from $40 million in 4 short years.
Built the plan, recruited the team of seasoned executives, diversified the product offering, developed industry partners.

Took the relationships from a family business in one industry, started a company, changed the strategic direction of the company, merged it with a larger company that had capital, did an Initial Public Offering to raise capital for growth, and ultimately at its peak had $1.3 billion market cap with $2.3 Billion in revenues.

Outstanding entrepreneurial business creator
 Built two companies virtually from the ground up, both with billion dollar plus market capitalization.
 Leveraged industry relationships and partners in both cases to build the business.
 Created the teams, developed the strategy, communicated it, empowered the team, and executed.
 Deeply rooted in values of Teamwork, Respect, Accountability, Integrity, and Trust

MBA Finance- University of Saint Thomas- Houston, TX
BBA Marketing- Stephen F. Austin State University- Nacogdoches, TX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

President/ Regional Leader, STANFORD GROUP COMPANY/ STANFORD GROUP HOLDINGS, North America 2005-present
Built and Executed the business plan to take this small 4 office/$40million revenue broker dealer to 28 offices to $1 billion market cap company by developing industry relationships and diversifying the product offering
 Built the plan, recruited the team of executives, and executed the plan.
 Diversified the product offering and Developed industry relationships and partners to leverage.

Senior Managing Director, STANFORD FINANCIAL GROUP, Miami, FL, 2000-2005
Managed a Private Equity portfolio that was $75 million and grew the portfolio to $500 million by developing the strategy, recruiting the team, putting the processes in place, focusing on the target and executing the plan. Responsible for sourcing, negotiating, analyzing, performing due diligence, structuring, and managing private debt/equity investments from inception to liquidity in some cases.
 Sourced, Negotiated, Analyzed, Performed Due Diligence, Structured Deals.

President of the Americas, CELLSTAR CORPORATION/ AMERICAS, Miami, FL, 1999-2000
Consolidated the very successful Latin America Region with the US region and grew the business 30% while reducing redundancy and overhead. Grew the combined region from $900 million to over $1.3 billion in revenues.
 Communicated the plan, empowered the best, created efficiency by creating accountability.

President Latin America, CELLSTAR CORPORATION, Miami, FL, 1993-1999
After successfully completing an Initial Public offering in 1993, went into Latin America to develop International Operations by utilizing relationships with established US Telecom Companies. Opened up in seven countries and grew the region to over $770 million in revenues, number one out of four regions, most profitable in the company.
 “Greenfield”, established operations in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, as well as regional head office in Miami.
 Negotiated with governments, negotiated with the telephone companies, recruited the teams, and built a highly successful and profitable business.

President, CELLSTAR CORPORATION / CELULAR EXPRESS, SA, Mexico D.F., Mexico, 1990-1993
Went into Mexico, negotiated an agreement with Telmex utilizing the US relationship with SBC and built from “Greenfield” a $250 million Mexico operation from the ground up with multiple locations in the country.
 Developed the “Value Added” supplier model utilized in the wireless industry today.
 Negotiated the agreements with Motorola and Nokia which were key in developing this business.

General Manager, CELLSTAR CORP/ NATIONAL AUTO CENTER/ NATIONAL SOUND DIST, Houston, TX, 1987 – 1990
Integrated the two merged companies and grew to $100 million in revenues from $12 million

President/Owner, NATIONAL SOUND DISTRIBUTORS, INC, Houston, TX 1981-1987
Took a family owned business in the automotive expediting business into wireless negotiating a reseller agreement with GTE and ultimately becoming one of GTE’s largest “Master Agents”