Rick Jefcoat has had a long and varied career among several different organizations as a CPA, CFO, management consultant, operations officer, and owner of his own successful company. Rick was most recently owner and CEO of Tactical Products, LLC, in Mississippi. He purchased a distressed manufacturing firm in 2002, and then restructured the business model to reposition it for sale to an emerging defense business. During this period of intense growth, Rick led his management group’s effort to rebuild their business in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Prior to Tactical Products, Rick worked as the Executive Vice President of Finance and Operations for UPC, Inc., a corporation that manufactured tactical and special application apparel.  During his eight year tenure, annual sales grew from $250,000 to over $18 million whereupon he engineered the sale of the company for 12 times EBITDA.

Rick was a CPA, auditor, consultant, and senior manager with KPMG in their New Orleans, Shreveport, Houston, and Dallas offices. While with KPMG, Rick consulted with well known companies like General Dynamics, Bell Helicopter, Louisiana Bancshares, Sysco Corporation, Louisiana Land & Exploration, Texaco, Tidewater Marine, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and the Resolution Trust Corporation.  While at KPMG Rick participated in the firm’s professional development practice and instructed fellow professionals in the concepts of change management, operations, activity-based costing, constraints theory, team building, and conflict resolution.

Rick has expertise in many areas including turnaround consulting, strategic planning, best practices, accounting and control systems, information systems, continuous improvement and QA, mergers and acquisitions, retail operations, lean manufacturing, financial planning, and more.