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Successful sale to Suja Life, owned by Paine Schwartz Equity Partners. At Vive our mission is to spark the holistic wellness journey for all. Vive offers shots and beverages featuring nature's most powerful ingredients to help you practice proactive wellness.Aaron leads the finance, accounting, human resources, investor relations, and information technology functions at Vive.

Successful IPOAaron is responsible for the Finance, Accounting, and Information Technology functions at Beyond Meat.- Equity financing (due diligence, financial modeling, stock purchase agreements, term sheets)- Convertible debt issuances- Reporting and business insights using in memory database functionality within Microsoft Power BI- Working knowledge of T-SQL, DAX, Python ( BeautifulSoup, Numpy, and Pandas packages)- Annual budgeting, strategic planning, and long range financial models- Capital allocation and cash flow planning- Full P&L management- Redefining processes and procedures within inventory management, materials management, and supply chain based on changes within the business- Information Technology including business systems strategy, business analytics, information security, and delivery of IT services to the Company- Host Analytics budgeting and reporting tool administrator- Cap table management using Solium Shareworks- Financial reporting- Investor relation activities including financial reporting, due diligence, and business updates- Capital expenditure and capacity planning- Deep NetSuite experience in both process design and implementation- Trade promotion management- Created policies and procedures for Finance & Accounting- Corporate insurance including crime, D&O, general liability, product recall, and cyber

Aaron is responsible for the Finance & Accounting function at Beyond Meat. Aaron spends his time performing financial analysis, budgeting, pricing, and closing the books. He works closely with operations analyzing and forecasting costs for the manufacturing operation and providing performance management guidance to the other departments. His key contributions include:- Led implementation of Host Analytics performance management solution for budgeting and management reporting- Managing cap table for company- Annual strategic planning and three year planning- Investor relation activities including financial reporting, due diligence, and business updates- Pricing and profitability subject matter expert on multiple product development and commercialization cycles- Capital expenditure planning- Financial modeling and sales forecasting for our frozen food and fresh beef business- Creating a pricing & profitability processes to aid in pricing decisions.- Designed and implemented a standard costing system within NetSuite- Designed manufacturing cost reports and implemented in our management reporting system (Host Analytics)- Reviewing financial reports and manufacturing variances- Designed processes and configured NetSuite accounting and manufacturing functionality (landed cost, standard cost, procure to pay, and order to cash)- Collaboratively designed process for estimating and accounting for trade promotions and other discounts to revenue- Preparing presentations for quarterly board of directors meetings- Created policies and procedures for Finance & Accounting- Assisted with product cost down efforts on existing products- Lease vs buy analyses on manufacturing equipment- Performed make versus buy analysis for a contract manufacturing arrangement- Corporate insurance

Aaron owns and operates Bluegrass Brews LLC where he manufacturers and sells the Brew Tanker Insulated Growlers, which have first been rolled out to Amazon. Aaron focuses on leveraging Amazon Pay Per Click, international supply chain, optimizing working capital.

Manager in Deloitte's Finance Transformation practice providing consulting services for finance and accounting operations. His services included process improvement using lean six sigma methodologies, financial close and reporting acceleration and simplification, business requirements gathering and system selection, and standard cost implementations.

Performing consulting services for companies including financial close and reporting acceleration, IFRS readiness and impact assessments, general business process assessments to improve efficiency, shared services transformations.Prior experience performing business process internal control audits for financial close and reporting, treasury, taxes, pensions, and inventory management. Business process controls services include assessing risk and evaluating internal controls in business processes to achieve objectives related to regulatory compliance, efficiency and effectiveness of operations, and/or financial reporting.

Performing attest and non-attest audits focusing on general computer controls and business process controls. General Computer Controls services focus on technology infrastructure and include assessing risk, evaluating control effectiveness, identifying weaknesses, and developing solutions. Business Process Controls services include assessing risk and evaluating internal controls in business processes to achieve objectives related to regulatory compliance, efficiency and effectiveness of operations, and/or financial reporting.

Created and collected information and data requirements for the electronic state income tax filing system; served on the tax forms committee; worked closely with a business process outsourcing company to streamline tax return processing; desiged 2-dimensional barcode specifications; assisted in re-write and update of an income tax billing system; created year end changes to mainframe systems; developed SQL database scripts; authored design manuals for software vendors; provided tax law opinions; determined accuracy and taxability of items; assisted tax payers in preparing returns