Brian Ridgway, Cpa Email & Phone Number

Venture Capital fund accounting for funds in San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

Pleasanton, Ca, Us

o Specialize in audits of venture capital funds• Manage multiple audit engagement for VC funds $10-200 million funds, portfolios of a few investments to more than 100 responsible for approximately 25 sets of financial statements (2019) trained and managed staff working on engagements• Onboard new clients with no previous audit experience• Provide financial assistance: improvements of valuation process, capital account allocation; preparation of financial statements; recommendations for improving internal process for more accurate financial reporting, cash security o Act as lead client contact, on-site and remotely, for engagements o Audit medical device and software startup companies including accounting assistance with preparation of financial statements & stock option expenseo Perform reviews, AUPs, accounting assistance for VC, software, medical device clients

Accounting, Finance & Operations Management Perform all Controllership functions: revenue and expense accounting: A/R, A/P, payroll Prepare financial statements & reports for compliance with VC funding requirements Budgeting and strategic planning, Manage all financial outside service provider relationships (including ADP)Operations functions (HR): new hires on-boarding, terminations, benefits administration

Alameda, California, Us

Please note that I'm including this part of my work history for completeness. I'm no longer working in the QA field (see accounting work history)Reviewed batch records & Released clinical trials material, Conducted GMP Quality Audits & internal quality systems Provided QA guidance on development project teams & phases 1 and 2 manufacturing teamsCommunicated with partners (CMOs ) guaranteeing manufacturing quality requirements

Alameda, California, Us

Please note that I'm including this part of my work history for completeness. I'm no longer working in the medicinal chemistry field (see accounting work history).Managed the CDK9 antagonist project team as lead chemistCollaborated with the structural biologists, pharmacologists, cell biologists and the protein expression biologist to achieve our goal of a selective, potent, and orally bioavailable CDK9 antagonistSupervised up to 5 medicinal chemistsPresented and defended project in front of peers and senior management during monthly project reviewsCompleted 6 drug discovery projects (screening hits to leads to pre-clinical drug candidate) resulting in 6 patents and 3 drug candidates that entered phase 1 clinical trials: Advanced a Jak2 (XL019), a Hedgehog (XL139), and an IGF1R (XL228) antagonist into development and phase 1 clinical trialsOptimized drugs for biochemical/cellular potency, off-target selectivity, oxidative metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and physical properties: Synthesized over 130 pure compounds and two, several-hundred-compound library for 6 lead optimization projects over approximately 4-5 years.Created a manufacturing process for clinical material for multiple projects (early process research) Created the primary manufacturing process that was used by a CMO to produce the clinical trials material (Phase 1) for the JAK2 antagonist project (XL019)Worked out a scale-able process to produce 20-50 grams of the Tie-2, Hedgehog (XL139) and MR (XL550) antagonist drug candidate projectsCompleted 9 lead validation projects (hit to lead) covering a wide range of biological targets for cancer (kinases) and metabolic (hormone receptor) areas of research: Synthesized over 110 pure compounds of diverse structural type for 9 projects over approximately 2-3 yearsPromoted multiple times during my tenure as a scientist.

New York, New York, Us

Research Scientist: Medicinal ChemistryAdvanced a compound for the NFκb project into developmentPlease note that I'm including this part of my work history for completeness. I'm no longer working in the medicinal chemistry field (see accounting work history).Synthesized the lead compound that maximized potency and PK while minimizing estrogen-like, off-target effectsDeveloped a manufacturing process for pre-clinical scale-up of the optically active materialCompleted a drug discovery project resulting in 2 patentsMentored a summer intern

Mba, Finance

Certificate Of Advanced Accounting Proficiency, Accounting

Ph.D., Organic Chemistry (Synthesis)

Bs, Chemistry

High School