Mr. Parizek is the principal consultant for The Capital Coach. He has a track record of success dealing with distressed companies and with financial transactions, resolutions, and litigation involving complicated assets and structures. He develops and implements effective strategies to resolve adversarial situations in both small and large business settings. Mr. Parizek is a finance professional that has restructure and asset management experience under court supervision.
He provides mentoring to entrepreneurs and to companies in transition. His focus is on his clientšs cash management, liquidity planning, and strategic planning skills to stabilize their businesses as a foundation for survival and growth. Recent assignments include a $16 million recapitalization of a group of closely held self-storage companies to facilitate future acquisitions. In another recent assignment, Mr. Parizek was appointed debtoršs representative for a media company where he was recognized by the Arizona chapter of the Turnaround Management Association in 2004 for the Turnaround of the Year for companies with less than $50 million in sales.
Other client representations involved coaching clients on negotiating strategies for the sale or acquisition of their businesses, introductions of their new products, and the restructure and recapitalization of their companies. Armar also provides alternative dispute resolution services to its clients.
Mr. Parizek has published 10 different articles on specialty finance issues in trade publications and presented 7 different papers to various trade organizations. He has managed more than $3.5B in secured financing transactions on a direct and syndicated basis.
As a chief credit officer Mr. Parizek managed banking and investor relationships and monitored alternative capital markets. He has made rating agency presentations and coordinated analytical responses in support of new asset classes. Mr. Parizek established credit policy and controls in support of new product introductions. Mr. Parizek has more than $1B of capital markets experience in the CMBS sector and has worked in the ABS sector with emerging asset classes.
As a chief financial officer, Mr. Parizek coordinated the operating projections for a proposed company and integrated them into a cogent business plan that was used to raise $1 million in seed capital and, as a result of a favorable market valuation of the company, the firm raised $5.5 million in first round venture capital placement.
Mr. Parizek identified product potential and competitive opportunities in the marketplace and developed business models and plans to take advantage of such opportunities. In so doing he established new competitive models for delivering specialty finance products to national markets on a cost effective basis. For example, he developed, introduced, and maintained one of the first successful self-storage loan programs. This nationwide program generating $381 million in loans and sustained a 15% share of the national market as a result of brand establishment and market penetration programs developed by Mr. Parizek. He also guided development of a national car wash finance program that generated a $90 million portfolio of senior loans during its initial test.
Mr. Parizek has managed bankruptcy recovery litigation in multiple states and jurisdictions including adversarial motions involving debtor-in-possession, cash collateral, automatic stay relief, creditor classification, fraudulent conveyance, plan feasibility and confirmation, as well as asset and going concern valuation issues.
Mr. Parizek has developed litigation and recovery strategies addressing issues of selective amputation, prepackaged plans, creditor-sponsored plans, substantive and administrative consolidation of entities, as well as gerrymandering and consolidation of creditor's claims. He has served as an expert witness in the Ninth Circuit on asset valuation and plan feasibility through declaration and deposition.
Mr. Parizek managed loan recovery and REO disposition under a $1.3B RTC contract. He personally established the plans and negotiated their implementation to accelerate the recovery of $450M from non-performing real estate loans. He also negotiated resolutions of lender liability lawsuits.
Mr. Parizek has broad collateral recovery and liquidation experience including capital equipment and physical plant as well as a wide range of real estate asset classes such as resort and business class hotels, self-storage facilities, luxury and tract home builders, office buildings, multifamily, retail, and industrial properties.
Early in his career, Mr. Parizek was responsible for account servicing and for coordinating analytical and documentation support for workout negotiations for large, multi-lender credits in the energy and utility industries. Mr. Parizek also had early exposure to the bankruptcy process through the first restructure of Braniff Airlines and liquidation of Air Florida.
In his various capacities, Mr. Parizek has recruited, trained, and retained multidisciplinary teams including clerical, technical, professional, and executive members.
Mr. Parizek has an established track record of start-up successes including lending and collection departments, an asset management firm, a semiconductor manufacturer, and a mortgage bank. He has negotiated accounting and audit service contracts as well as leases and acquisition of facilities and equipment. He managed the design, development, and implementation of an integrated customer information and product tracking system for a $6B financial institution. Mr. Parizek has also been involved with coordinated regulatory compliance reporting.
Mr. Parizek earned his Masters of Business Administration from Baylor University. While he was there he was awarded the Schoen Graduate Fellowship in Private Enterprise and he lectured in undergraduate economics.
Mr. Parizek earned his Bacheloršs of Business Administration from Baylor University in with concentrations in finance, economics, and real estate supported by a strong analytical core of accounting and statistics.