About Us
TCOS Advisors is a select team of proven executives with extensive hands-on experience providing financial, operational and strategic services to help healthy companies grow through changing times, and troubled companies get back on track to profitability and stability.
TCOS Advisors are not simply consultants and planners, we are doers. We assess, evaluate, take action and solve your business needs. We don’t issue reports, we deliver results. TCOS Advisors provide a broad range of custom services to assist companies globally to achieve their business goals, and overcome complex business challenges. Based in Los Angeles, TCOS Advisors can assist you wherever your business needs arise. Having led both multinational organizations, start-up and small to mid-market companies through unprecedented challenges, our talented professionals are ready to provide custom solutions to your business needs. Contact us now and find out how we can help you and your business.
LONNIE SCHNELL
Managing Director & Founder
Lonnie Schnell has over 30 years experience in the operational and financial management of high technology businesses in numerous industries, including electronics, aerospace, commercial & industrial equipment, and consumer products manufacturing and distribution. A proven strategic leader focused on bottom-line improvements through revenue growth, operational efficiencies, and cost control, Mr. Schnell is an effective problem solver, strategic thinker and team builder, comfortable as a hands-on working executive, in corporate boardrooms, or in public marketplaces.
Mr. Schnell's selected professional accomplishments and skills include:
• Turnarounds – leading the financial & operational turnaround and strategic growth of five businesses.
• Acquisitions – Completing over 30 business and product line acquisitions.
• Start-Up – as CFO, leading two startups; a B2B electronic exchange and a stainless steel rolling mill.
• IPO – Finalized the IPO for a troubled technology manufacturer, then led its financial turnaround.
• Equity Offerings – Led several Private Placement Offerings, a debt-to-equity Preferred share exchange, and a Preferred Equity Redemption.
• Business Processes – Directed system implementation & process improvements in multiple high technology and supply chain environments.
As CEO for over seven years at Talon International, Inc., a $50+ million international apparel accessory manufacturer and distributor, Mr. Schnell directed a major operational and financial turnaround including the establishment of a worldwide supply chain, strategic international and operational realignments, exclusive customer agreements and several debt and equity restructurings. Prior to joining Talon, Lonnie Schnell also provided financial and turnaround management services to several other businesses, including: EMSource, LLC, a $30 million provider of electronic manufacturing (EMS) & supply-chain services; Haskel International, Inc., a $55 million international manufacturer and distributor of high technology pumps and gas boosters; and Telair, Inc., a $60 million aerospace engineering and design division of Teleflex, Inc. Mr. Schnell, as CFO also helped lead the start-up of RiverOne, a B2B online marketplace for electronic consumers, and the “greenfield” building of a high-technology mini-mill steel rolling mill.
Additionally, Mr. Schnell served as Director of Audit, Director of Corporate Development, and Director of Financial Reporting for Talley Industries, Inc., a $300 million diversified consumer products, industrial and aerospace international manufacturer and distributor; and as Assistant Controller for Diamonds, a $100 million retail division of Target, Inc.
Mr. Schnell completed an executive MBA program with Stanford University Executive Institute and the American Electronics Association, and earned his BSBA in Accounting (Cum Laude) at Christian Brothers University. He holds a CPA and CGMA designation, and served more than five years with the international accounting firm of Ernst and Young.