Samuel Barnes

• Plan and manage Marketing and T&E Cost Centers for the Operating Unit Management in Cardiac Ablation Solutions (~$40M annual budget).
• Manage monthly P&L for Global CAS revenue and expenses (Growing 50% Revenue YoY).
• Manage quarterly forecasts for Mktg, T&E, and CAS Global P&L
• Present monthly/quarterly/annual financial metrics to CAS Leadership (CFO,GM).

• Manage the monthly commission payroll for 138 territories in Men’s Health, Women’s Health, and Endourology.
• Manage ~$22MM annual commission budget
• Develop, analyze, and present monthly commission analysis to Finance, HR, Commercial Excellence leadership, and VP of Sales of Interventional Urology.
• Lead forecasting, sales analysis, expense management, reporting, and general FP&A activities for both revenue and expenses for the Endourology Business Unit (~$10MM annual revenue).
• Lead the Global Pricing Strategy, Market Price Monitoring, list price setting, pricing discount strategy, and decision-making tools for the Endourology business unit.
• Manage profitability, contract commitment, cash flows, and accounting of Capital products within Endourology.

• Calculated U.S. Bank’s commercial daily funding curve.
• Provided pricing insights to internal lenders.
• Support U.S. Bank’s current pricing support models.
• Assessed the managerial and contractual costs of redeploying funds of 3,976 prepaid contracts into the market while also calculating/locking in 2,117 rate locks for commercial loans.

• Contract pricing analytical activities across the Health Care Business Group at 3M
• Conduct contract price renewals, data validation, and conduct price deviation governance
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis
• Corporate and group pricing data audits

● Traction Capital is a Hybrid PE/VC firm in Minneapolis dedicated to investing in financial, human and intellectual capital with a proven process for growing early-stage and lower middle market companies that are stuck in the “capital gap”

● Deal source within the Midwest startup ecosystem various companies that match Traction Capitals Investment

Credentials

● Research various industries in which Traction Capital may invest in

● Work closely with the Groove Capital team to bring the Minnesota Startup Ecosystem more Pre-Seed/First

Check Investments

● General Purpose research - Pipeline Research, Fund Research

● Investor Onboarding - Fund admin research, develop onboarding process for investors, share expectations with investors

● Startup application intake - Develop intake process for startups, develop tools for startup intake

● Due Diligence workflow - Determine due diligence standards, create tools for Groove’s due diligence

● Deal sourcing - Research Minnesota’s deal source network, document key stakeholders

● Shadow Investment Advisor throughout Client advising process (Seminars, Conference, meetings)

● Attend Matson Money conferences with speakers such as Michael Phelps, Arthur Laffer, Chip Wilson, Steve Zaffron, Meir Statman, Rob Lowe and others.