Los Angeles, Ca., USA - September 6, 2017, Los Angeles, Ca., USA - Reed’s, a manufacturer or brewed sodas, announced that Jim Bass and Scott R. Grossman have been included on the company’s slate of director candidates.
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Jim Bass retired from the position of Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Sony Interactive Entertainment America, LLC where he started in July of 2002.
Mr. Bass joined the company as Vice President of Finance in November 1996.
He has more than 25 years of financial and international management experience.
Prior experience includes holding several senior management positions encompassing 14 years with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company gaining international experience running operations in parts of Asia and Europe.
Mr. Bass also spent two years at Wang Laboratories as a Divisional Controller.
He started his career in New York at the public accounting firm, Haskins and Sells, now Deloitte & Touche.
Mr. Bass received a bachelor's of business administration degree in accounting and finance from Pace University, New York City.
He is a certified public accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Scott R. Grossman has nearly two decades of experience investing in and advising both public and private companies undergoing transformative change, including several companies in the consumer industry.
Mr. Grossman is currently the founder and CEO of Vindico Capital LLC, a value-oriented investment firm that invests in public companies driving value-enhancing change, often in collaboration with management to provide advocacy and insights to help unlock value.
Prior to Vindico, Mr. Grossman was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Magnetar Capital, a multi-strategy alternative asset management firm, where he first joined in 2006.
Prior to Magnetar, Mr. Grossman worked at Soros Fund Management in its Private Equity division and Merrill Lynch in its investment banking group.
In addition, Mr. Grossman is a non-operating partner and current Board Member at Zeitguide, a privately-held research advisory firm that educates leading global executives and their teams on the transformational forces impacting culture and business. ■