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Boston, Ma

SCP provides management consulting, strategic and operational resources, and C-level support to family owned and closely held businesses. SCP differentiates itself from other professional services firms with a proven C-Level, cross-functional approach to serving clients. The SCP team consists of professionals with backgrounds covering finance, operations, sales and marketing, human capital, talent acquisition, and executive search.

Boston, Ma

Transformation experts guiding middle-market organizations, including private equity portfolio companies, through critical times of transition: growth, underperformance, and exit. E.L.I.’s Partners leverage our cross-functional expertise in finance, human capital, operations, and technology to assist our clients in the areas of capital structure, operational effectiveness, mergers and acquisitions, and exit strategy.

Waltham, Ma

Responsible for the integrity of financial information and systems for the country’s leading social learning and collaboration platform for physicians. Recruited and trained finance and accounting staff to capture and deliver financial, forecasting and business metrics necessary to meet achieve company’s growth objectives. Notable Achievements: • Worked closely with CEO and COO to grow the Quantia from a pre-revenue start-up with 12 employees into the nation’s leading collaboration platform for physicians with over 100 employees.• Managed five rounds of venture capital financing involving two lead investors and multiple additional investors. Directly responsible for all investor relations.• Integral in preparing investor materials for all financing activities. • Initiated and refined all budgeting, forecasting, financial planning and analysis, and business metrics reporting.• Implemented and managed external auditing and 409A valuations.• Negotiated revenue recognition procedures with auditors that significantly accelerated revenue recognition.• Created margin analysis reporting by product that allowed Sales and Client Services to focuses their efforts on the most profitable opportunities.• Built out finance organization, established new organizational structure, created and oversaw accounting group.• Initiated annual budgeting process. Orchestrated budget process with all departments and senior management concluding in the presentation of a final budget approved by the CEO and Board of Directors.• Responsible for all general accounting functions and cash management.

Bedford, Ma

Restructured and trained the accounting and finance groups at this innovator in inertial tracking and sensor fusion technology. Overhauled financial systems to capture the most relevant financial information used to provide business metrics and forecast reports tailored to achieve Company goals.Notable Achievements: • Designed and implemented action plan focusing on operational and budgetary issues that led to the Company becoming profitable and cash flow positive for the first time in its history. • Implemented new processes for financial oversight by function. • Key member of management team that guided the Company to significantly higher year over year revenue and profitability between 2003 and 2006. • Streamlined the SBIR submission process and managed the annual SBIR audit. • Operational responsibility for effectively managing key Company milestones - accomplished through the development of appropriate business metrics and support of the Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing and R&D groups.

Westford, Ma

Responsible for the financial integrity of U.S. operations at this European based document management and collaborative knowledge firm. Directly responsible for all U.S. finance, accounting, legal, payroll, and treasury functions. Reported directly to the Munich based CFO.Notable Achievements:• Responsible for all aspects of finance and human resources in the North American operations. • Considerable time spent working in and with German, Austrian, and U.K. offices.• Managed U.S. auditors to provide consolidated results to German parent company. • Delivered detailed financial models, cash and GAAP income statements, balance sheets and cash flows. • Performed valuation, ROI, breakeven, and acquisition analyses. • Led operational relationships with banking, billing, payroll, and legal for the U.S. operations.

Woburn, Ma - Acquired By Grass Valley Group April 2001

Reported to CEO of designer and manufacturer of devices used to digitize television news production. Built and directed a team of 5 people responsible for budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. Notable Achievements: • With CEO, negotiated the sale of Vibrint Technologies to Grass Valley Group, Inc. • Responsible for all financial and legal due diligence during the acquisition. • Teamed with investment banker to cultivate three groups from which we were able to solicit bids prior to the sale. • Implemented new processes enabling detailed tracking of expenses, measurement of performance vs. milestones, comparative budgeting, and interim forecasting. • Responsible for traditional finance, accounting, legal, payroll, treasury and investor relations functions. • Negotiated contractor and vendor agreements, administered Company’s 401k plan, Incentive Stock Option Plan, and other benefits plans.

Newton, Ma - Acquired By Microsoft May 1998

Reported to CEO of software company providing tools and services to migrate Lotus Notes applications to Microsoft® Exchange Server. Built and managed finance, accounting, human resources, payroll, and investor relations functions. Integral member of team that positioned company for acquisition. Notable Achievements: • Working with the CEO and President, developed strategy to position and prepare company for acquisition. • Member of team that negotiated sale of The MESA Group to Microsoft Corporation. • Responsible for financial and legal due diligence during the acquisition. • Worked closely with investment banker during the acquisition process. • Secured two rounds of venture financing. • Developed and implemented budget process that produced the Company’s first detailed budget as well as interim forecasts and milestones. • Implemented the Company’s first in-house accounting system that enabled internal measurement and control of the Company’s operations. • Worked with V.P. of Sales to manage the recruitment and monitoring of VAR's and strategic partners.

Burlington, Ma - Acquired July 1995

Reported to the CEO of this venture financed manufacturer of medical equipment used in vascular therapeutic procedures. Responsible for all accounting functions, treasury and cash management, legal, payroll, management information systems, facilities, and human resources. Notable Achievements: • Negotiated final equipment leases needed in preparation for acquisition.• Managed banking relationship and bank lines in preparation for acquisition.• Implemented monthly management report that analyzed variance from budget for cogs, raw material gains and losses and accruals.• Advised CEO concerning major expenditures, financial policies and procedures.• Oversaw administration of Belgium office as well as responsibility for the consolidation of international results. • Prepared and provided all due diligence related to the sale of the Company.

Methuen, Ma - Acquired By General Mills April 1994

Responsible for all activities of the cost accounting group for this commercial food manufacturer. Supervised and performed monthly closing function that included finished goods gains and losses, calculation of cost of goods sold, accruals, and various other month-end requirements. • Responsible for calculating and forecasting freight and storage costs on monthly and quarterly basis.• Performed new product analyses related to company’s move into frozen products.• Developed and implemented new costing methods for out-sourcing to OEM manufacturers.• Prepared monthly analysis of cost of goods sold for each division.• Coordinated accounting functions for Colombo’s primary manufacturing plant (including general ledger maintenance, preparation of P&L and balance sheets and reconciliation of bank statements).

Bs, Finance

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)