Dan Lazarek

 

Dan Lazarek - Professional Summary:    

 

For more than 20 years, Dan Lazarek has distinguished himself as a business leader in a variety of fields. A resident of Atlanta, Georgia, and Miami Beach, Florida, Mr. Lazarek currently serves as CFO and one of the two owners of Access Insurance Holdings, Inc. In his time as CFO since 1999, Dan Lazarek helped Access Insurance Holdings, Inc. become one of the fastest-growing companies in the country.

After receiving his MBA from the University of Rochester William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Marketing, Dan Lazarek quickly began to prove himself at a variety of telecommunications and technology firms. At the Frontier Corporation, Dan Lazarek earned the position of U.S. Marketing and Business Development Director. This put him in charge of marketing functions for 37 telephone companies operating in 14 states, with an annual revenue stream of more than $650 million dollars.

Serving as Executive Vice President at Citizens Communications, Dan Lazarek undertook profit/loss responsibility and management of the company’s retail and wholesale markets. In his three years as Vice President, Dan Lazarek successfully grew the top and bottom line by 30 percent annually and built a sales force from the ground up that included more than 1,500 direct and indirect selling personnel, 24 retail centers, and more than 500 customer service agents.

As the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of WorldPort Communications, Inc., Dan Lazarek grew revenue from $2 million per month to more than $5 million per month and helped turn a $2-million EBITDA loss into a monthly profit in less than two years. Mr. Lazarek also served as Chairman of the Board for ASCENT, the largest competitive communications trade industry association in the United States. His success has continued in his time as CFO of Access. The company ranked in Inc. Magazine’s top 5,000 fastest-growing U.S. companies for the fourth time in 2010 and ranked in the top 20 for two separate years since Dan Lazarek became CFO.

 

 

Dan Lazarek - Professional Experience:     

 

Access Insurance Holdings Inc.
Chief Financial Officer, Owner, Board of Directors (Treasurer and Secretary)
5//1999 — Present 
Access Insurance Holdings Inc. has twice been recognized by Inc. Magazine on the Inc 500 List as the #13 and #10 fastest-growing privately-held Company in the United States and again in 2009 (#2063) and 2010 (#758) on the Inc 5000 list. In addition, Access has been recognized on Atlanta's Pacesetters list of the top 25 fastest-growing Atlanta private companies each of the last three years (#10 in 2010, #5 in 2009, #23 in 2008) and on Atlanta's list of Top 100 Largest Private Companies (2008 and 2009). Founded by Michael McMenamin, he and I own and operate this privately-held 550+ employee, rapidly-growing, full service Insurance Company and service related-entities. We are headquartered in Atlanta, are licensed in 21 states, and currently operate in 12 states (California, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, South Carolina, Louisiana, Nevada, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Florida). 

Worldport Communications
Exec VP and Chief Operating Officer
US
04/1/1997 — 09/1/1999
WorldPort Communications was a European-Based global carrier of data, voice, and other services to ISPs, carriers, and medium-large corporations worldwide. In addition, WorldPort was the largest CLEC in the Netherlands with European operations in six countries. Majority of assets were sold to Energis, United Kingdom for 0M+ in cash in a transaction signed in 1999 and completed in 2000. Profit\Loss responsibility which through “turnaround” management capabilities grew revenue from M per month to M+ per month and reversed (M) per month EBITDA loss to 0K+ per month positive EBITDA in two year period. Day-to-day operating responsibility included operating functions including sales\marketing, customer operations, regulatory, human resources, and finance.

Citizens Communications
Executive Vice-President
10/1/1993 — 09/1/1996
Growth, development, profit\loss responsibility and ongoing management of all retail and wholesale channels encompassing 0M+ annual revenue stream, 1500+ employees\staff, 1M+ customers and grew top and bottom line at 30% annually. Built sales channel infrastructures from scratch including 700 telemarketers, 200+ direct sales personnel, 600 outsourced selling agents, 24 retail center operations, and 500+ customer service personnel. Successful start-up and execution of long distance division from to over 0M+ annually over a two-year period.

 

 

Dan Lazarek - Education:     

 

University of Rochester - William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration
Finance and Marketing
MBA 
//1987 — //1991

Union College
Electrical Engineering
Bachelor of Science 
//1983 — //1987

 

 

Dan Lazarek - Interests:  

 

Currently live in Atlanta and Miami. Triathlons, Travel (50 countries in and many more to go), Wine Collecting, Golf, Horse Racing, and most any sports-related activity.

 

 

 

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