About

Cecelia Lakatos Sullivan,Founder and Principal of CLS Consultants, has over 20 years of personal experience in management, finance, supply chain operations, marketing, systems development and e-Business. Her career spans semi-conductor, commercial and investment banking, venture capital, telecommunications and construction industries. CLS Consultants provides executive management consulting services to help clients achieve increased profitability through business plan execution, improved operational efficiency and effective performance management.

Throughout her career, Cecelia has repeatedly demonstrated her ability to create successful business strategies around people, processes and tools, and execute to collaborative implementation plans. Cecelia brings her hands-on business leadership experience to CLS Consultants. She has consistently achieved outstanding revenue results, and her people leadership has motivated large global teams to improve operational effectiveness and deliver to the bottom line.

CLS Consultants delivers quality services and results. Below are some examples of client engagements and success:

Interim CEO for family owned Software Company. Provided strategic guidance and execution for re-starting the company resulting in a 15% increase in revenues.
Business development and implementation for International Software Services Company in transition. Partnered with CEO/Executive staff to formalize strategy development and performance metrics, and prioritize tactics and implementation execution. Enabled company redirection.
Start-up management infrastructure development for home building and land development company. Collaborated with managing partners to create and establish management and operating infrastructure, clear growth priorities and financial parameters, performance metrics and executive management development.
Expanded business plan and implementation strategy. Worked with CEO of Physical Fitness Enterprise to double business within 18 months.

In addition to her consulting services, Cecelia’s notable contributions during her career in the corporate environment include:

Expanded supply chain planning operations to support business growth from $800K to $4.5B over a two-year period.
Established and delivered Customer e-Commerce strategic business plan, organizational design and success metrics; she and her team generated $16B revenue over the Web in less than a year.
Co-managed the key design and system development of an integrated worldwide order management and supply chain systems and its worldwide implementation, which included delivery of integrated business processes and global organization redesign. This resulted in an increase to 98% on-time deliveries and a two-week reduction in inventories for a multi-billion dollar company.
Served as Controller for several product groups with multi-million dollar budgets
Managed M&A transactions and business development.
As General Manager, established a new e-Commerce Multi-Store business and drove internal transition and managed the company exit strategies.

Cecelia Lakatos Sullivan is a graduate of the University of California , Davis and has a MBA from the University of Chicago .