Catherine Walsh is a Chief Financial Officer at HopeWay Foundation at HopeWay Foundation. She possess expertise in transportation, accounting, process improvement, financial reporting, forecasting and 18 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "Catherine is one of the best, if not the best, financial professionals I have had the pleasure of working with. Catherine has a keen aptitude to learn the details of the business allowing her to more effectively communicate with the operating/sales teams, analysts and financial executives. Through Catherine’s relentless focus of the key financial drivers we were able to significantly increase net to port margins, increase overall volume, and grow our participation in many critical cargo segments. Her ability to quickly understand the key fundamentals of each tradelane and business unit is second to none! While firmly focused on the financials Catherine also maintained a healthy balance between protecting the balance sheet and supporting critical revenue growth objectives. During numerous periods of financial instability and challenging legal circumstances Catherine helped lead productive efforts to improve working capital and liquidity allowing us to keep steady relations with critically important customers and vendors. Catherine is a leader with excellent management skills, always a team player, and a seasoned professional who brings strong execution to any role she assumes. Catherine would be a great addition to any financial or operating team." and "My working relationship with Catherine began ~6/10 when I joined the Horizon Lines Board of Directors and Audit committee (and subsequently took over as interim President and Chief Executive Officer to lead the restructuring of Horizon, until June 2012). During that period the Company went through a tremendously challenging time including receiving a going concern audit opinion, completing a complex out -of -court restructuring, shutting down the company's international operations, spinning off its logistics business, among many other highly stressful activities. Needless to say, it was quite busy and Catherine handled ALL of the significant demands with ease. Senior Management and board relied heavily on Catherine and her finance team, and despite the many deadlines and obstacles, Catherine ALWAYS delivered (and did so with good cheer and savvy awareness of the multiple business issues beyond the Accounting and Finance functions). She worked very well with the business owners and was proactive in identifying business trends and raising awareness of issues before they became significant. She multi-tasks extremely well between technical accounting, restatements of financials, operational issues,etc. and has a fairly unique 3 dimensional awareness of "the numbers". I really enjoyed working with Catherine and would highly recommend her in any endeavor!"