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Patricia Reinhardt is a senior executive specializing in strategic management of companies with high-growth potential. She has more than 20 years of experience guiding financial turnarounds, joint venture negotiations, mergers/acquisitions and commercial real estate financing. She has a proven track record in a range of industries, including education, travel, government consulting and real estate. Her business insight and extensive operating experience have proven invaluable to setting her client companies on a profitable course.
Reinhardt is Principal of Independent Consulting Group (ICG), where she assists in redefining and strengthening the financial base of small to mid-size companies facing financial and operating issues due to either rapid growth or an unanticipated decline in revenues. Most recently, she facilitated an acquisition that added $10M in revenue and $1M in profit to the client company’s bottom line. Immediately prior to that, she turned around a mid-size firm, restructuring the entity and positioning it successfully for sale to a Fortune 1000 company.
From 1998-2001, Reinhardt served as CEO of Digi-Block, Inc., an educational products company. She negotiated critical joint ventures, developed strategic marketing initiatives, forged solid manufacturing and fulfillment relationships, built a core team of dedicated employees and secured $5 million of private equity financing to bring the product to market. Digi-Block now has products in more than 7,000 classrooms nationwide.
Between 1995 and 1998, Reinhardt was President of BOTEC Analysis Corporation. While there, she jump-started previously stagnant revenues to an annual growth rate of 20 percent in less than eight months. She also restructured the company’s capital structure to create employee ownership incentives, and doubled the company’s sales footprint.
Reinhardt began her career in commercial real estate finance. As Director of Development at Trowbridge Associates, she honed her project management and negotiation skills on multi-million dollar real estate projects. She then leveraged those skills to foster the development of a new model of supportive housing for homeless men, women and children. During a three-year period, Reinhardt oversaw the development and establishment of two comprehensive communities that provided life and job skill training and counseling for drug and alcohol addiction. In addition, she was instrumental in developing the infrastructure for homeless families in Cambridge and transitional families in Detroit.
Reinhardt holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Mary Washington. In addition to her position on KLD’s Board of Directors, she is on the Board of Advisors for REACH, a nonprofit organization that works with victims of domestic violence. She is also an active member of The Boston Club, where she sits on its Corporate Board Resource Committee. | 