Brooke Richards Email and Phone Number

Brooke is a Financial, Operational, and Technical Accounting Leader with a diverse background. As a result, Brooke has expansive leadership skills in multinational Finance, Controllership, Standard-setting, and Technical Accounting, all the while remaining practical and personable. Brooke heads up the technical accounting, SEC Reporting, and stock compensation admin teams for Trimble Inc. Trimble is a leader in digital positioning technologies such as GPS, laser, optical, and inertial, with software and services to provide complete commercial solutions. Key areas served are in buildings and infrastructure, transportation, geospatial, and agriculture. In a world of smart people, Brooke differentiates herself by nurturing positive relationships. She does so by being mindful that we are all working together for common good results, which are based on well-thought-out ideas from a team of strong, diverse, yet harmonious minds. And remembering that a good laugh and light attitude along the way will get us there in a meaningful way.Brooke has 20+ years of global accounting and strategic process improvement experience working in leadership roles for Trimble, Connor Group, American Express, Corning Inc., the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), and as an entrepreneur. Specialties include continuous improvements, strategic leadership and collaboration with teams involving Mergers & Acquisitions, Divestitures, stock comp, pensions, leases, EPS, external reporting, debt/equity transactions, and more.Key memberships include (1) IMA’s Financial Reporting Committee—a group that liaisons with the FASB, IASB, SEC, and PCAOB; (2) FEI’s FARR—an arm of the FEI’s Committee on Corporate Reporting, which comprises a group of preparers sharing in discussions of most urgent matters facing the profession.