Nevil Hermer - Executive Advisor

Nevil Hermer has managed companies where he was the owner/operator and where he was employed as President / COO. As a Senior Executive Associate of Xecutive Advisory Partners, Nevil provides strategic business planning, organizational restructuring and Executive team development, market entry strategy and capital funding guidance to our client companies.

After immigrating to New York in 1978, Nevil worked in the diamond business for a family-owned international business. After relocating to Seattle in 1981, he acquired Nacgoglass, a small automotive glass company that was in financial disrepair, executing a successful turnaround of the small retailer into the first Speedy Auto Glass operation in the US when it was acquired by a Canadian family-owned company. As President of Speedy, he grew the company into the 2nd largest automotive glass groups in the country, encompassing 110 stores, 100 franchises and 28 warehouses in 16 states over 9 years. He left Speedy for another glass company, Amilite in NY, where he led the turn-around of a union factory that required the installation of new equipment and the construction of a 200,000 sq. foot warehouse. After 3 years Nevil turned the firm over to local management and returned to Seattle, where he purchased Fratelli Corporation, a frozen products distribution company. He sold Fratelli’s in a successful transaction that guaranteed employment for every employee.

Nevil then invested in a dot-com start-up, and after a few years of frustration took the experience he gained from that, plus the lessons learned from building small, poorly funded companies, and formed a consulting practice. His consulting centered around re-focusing and re-structuring companies. Nevil then served as President of Wilmar/Performance Tool – a family-owned tool importer and distributor based in Renton. He left Wilmar at the end of July 2011.

Nevil received his MBA in Manpower Organization and Development in Cape Town, South Africa. He also studied Industrial Psychology as an undergraduate.