Landon Romano

LANDON ROMANO, MBA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Steward, LLC (Pretoria, South Africa) 2008 - present

Managing Director

•Fund manager & shareholder activist employing value investing principles to purchase mispriced securities

•Annual returns: +54% 2009, +49% 2010, +6.5% 2011, & +1377% Tronox investment (Jan 2009 – Jan 2011)

•Managed US Trustee “Equity Committee” as 1% owner of Tronox, Inc. (OTC:TROX), a US-based top global producer & marketer of titanium dioxide pigment with sales in excess of US $1.5 billion & in partnership with South African firm, Exxaro (JSE:EXX), in Australian joint-venture, Ti-West

•Valuing publicly ...More traded securities ...More using discounted cash flows, relative valuation & other methodologies

•Financing privately held companies

Baylor University (Waco, TX)2006 - 2008

MBA Team Leadership

•Led production of financial model for Life Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPHI), taking the task from idea-to-completion, meeting desired results, on-time, & on-budget

•Managed JetBlue Airlines (NASDAQ: JBLU) strategy analysis project with classmates through collaboration, outlining, assigning individual parts for completion, following-up, & producing comprehensive end-results

•Directed operations during course analysis of then Continental, now United Airlines (NYSE: UAL), provided guidance to team members, kept group focused on goals, & delivered results by original deadline

Rx Communications, Investor Relations (New York City, NY)June-August 2007

MBA Summer Internship

•Managed investor-client meetings to increase market awareness of client-company, directly impacting the financial resources available to develop & market client products

•Conducted corporate strategy analysis to provide guidance to owners, clearly define business objectives, & set a path for the organization to achieve target revenues

Coldwell Banker (Los Gatos, CA)2005 - 2006

Team Management

•Motivated real-estate business team to focus on tasks, objectives, goals – ultimately led to sales

•Leveraged interpersonal skills by building team relationships to facilitate communications, increase business process efficiency, resulting in an increase in productivity

•Analyzed & reviewed contract & financial information to support (complex) real estate transactions between buyers & sellers, expediting the decision-making & closing process

VERITAS Software (Mountain View, CA)2000 - 2004

Global Operations Management

•Managed, produced & analyzed product revenues & profitability reports on multiple product lines totaling $1.8 billion, used to improve revenue forecasts, sales efforts, & profitability

•Led operations management for a $15 million consulting business unit by providing guidance to senior management on improving revenue, expense, profit margins, & other performance metrics

•Executed strategic business development initiative to drive product upgrades & win add-on consulting service engagements, leading to $150,000 of additional revenue & improved product profit margins

•Enhanced best practices used to increase profit margins, openly adding more than $100,000 to earnings

•Developed financial models to analyze & monitor consulting practice utilization & engagement service trends to optimize resource allocation

EDUCATION

Baylor University (Waco, TX)

Masters of Business Administration (MBA), General Management, GPA 3.7/4.0, May 2008

University of California (Santa Barbara, CA)

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Geography Major, GPA 3.4/4.0, June 1999