Fred E. Tannous

With over 30 years of experience, Fred brings financial engineering, management, strategy, M&A and business development expertise to his projects. As founding principal and/or executive-level manager, Fred helps start-ups and growing enterprises succeed through focused support covering financial and strategic planning, modeling and analytics, M&A and integration, financial marketing, risk management and international expansion strategies. His toolkit is complimented by broad industry experience in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, big data, IOT, financial services, telecom, gaming & lodging, nutritional sciences, skincare and cosmetics, subscription services, e-commerce and software technologies. Over the course of his professional career, Fred has launched several start-up companies and worked extensively with numerous emerging companies to improve performance, enhance enterprise value and maximize returns, in addition to helping challenged companies develop winning strategies and implement effective action plans. As Manager of Investments and Acquisitions at DIRECTV, Inc., a division of Hughes Aircraft/Electronics, he oversaw a $1 billion equity portfolio and was involved in valuing, structuring and executing strategic investments and business enhancement opportunities. While a key member of the structured finance team in corporate treasury at Hughes, Fred was involved in effectuating over $500 million in transactions for its operating units. As Chief Financial Officer of a publicly-traded gaming and lodging concern, Fred was instrumental in obtaining its listing on the NASDAQ SmallCap market and raising over $65 million in combined private equity and debt financing to expand its operations. Fred received an MBA in finance and banking from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and holds a Masters and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Fred is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery.