Ascent CFO Solutions is a Fractional CFO firm providing outsourced finance and accounting services to high-growth startups and established brands worldwide. As a Fractional CFO and Founder, I lead an experienced team of CFOs, controllers, and accountants dedicated to helping businesses reach their full potential through sound financial guidance. With our flexible and highly customized engagements, Ascent CFO Solutions serves as a trusted partner for leadership teams who want visibility into their business and data-driven strategic insight to make more informed decisions as they grow. We support clients across a wide range of industries who are going through transformation, growth, process improvement, fundraising, and/or preparing for an exit or looking to acquire other companies. Our services include: outsourced CFO services, financial model and cash flow forecasting, startup launch, accounting infrastructure and outsourcing, capital and fundraising, M&A advisory, and financial business intelligence metrics and dashboards.As fractional financial professionals, our team provides the expertise you need, when you need it to guide your business “upward.”

Temperatsure is the manufacturer of Nordic Ice, re-usable gel packs, and a variety of temperature controlled packaging products. We work to meet the specialized needs unique to shippers of temperature sensitive materials.

The mission of the "I Have a Dream" program is to motivate and empower children from low-income communities to reach their education and career goals by providing a long-term intervention program of mentoring, tutoring, and cultural enrichment. Upon graduation from high school, each Dreamer is eligible to receive a last-dollar, four-year tuition-assistance scholarship for college or vocational school.

Mentor to early state companies.

Mentor to early state companies.

Board Member since 2010, Treasurer since 2013

Standing Cloud is a leading provider of cloud application management services. We deliver a seamless application marketplace and management platform for cloud service providers, ISVs and other technology solution providers, making application deployment, management and distribution fast, simple and hassle-free for their customers.Our standard application catalog includes 100 open-source and commercial applications; our service supports a wide range of application technology stacks, cloud service providers and orchestration software systems.Acquired by AppDirect, Inc. in August, 2013

Before disbanding and going on to other things, Catapult CFO Partners offered CFO consulting services by senior level CFOs across a wide variety of industries. Working directly with CEO's to develop and implement strategies that generate additional cash to catapult your business to the top. Our Partners provide critical, creative and custom strategies and implement initiatives to enhance equity value for companies at any stage in the business life cycle.

A business unit of Zayo Group, ZEN is a national telecommunications services provider focused on delivering fiber-based communications services to medium and large enterprises. My accomplishments include:-Orchestrated and implemented regional-based corporate reorganization, including financial reporting, regional forecasting, cost saving identification and implementation-Integration of operations for regional acquisition including analysis of circuit costs, operations streamlining and ongoing profitability analysis-Performed due diligence procedures on numerous acquisition candidates including financial models-Implemented detailed direct cost tracking system in cloud-based tool resulting in $276k in ongoing annual savings-Negotiated key vendor agreements creating significant cost savings

Pre-Venture Capital stage Software as a Service (SaaS) Application Performance Monitoring company.-Responsible for all aspects of finance and accounting oversight.-Successfully negotiated and closed $1.5 Million debt facility to support working capital.-Provided financial leadership to Venture Capital fundraising efforts and presentations.-Developed business plans and pro-forma financial models for early stage entrepreneurial company.-Generated multiple leads through business development efforts resulting in new revenue to company.-Developed standard contracting vehicles for emerging partnerships and end-user opportunities.-Negotiated partnership and customer distribution and sales agreements.

Integrated Research is headquartered in Sydney Australia and is publicly traded on the Australian Stock Exchange.-Responsible for all facets of finance, accounting and sales administration for the primary revenue-generating region (Americas) of a fast-growing, publicly-traded, Australian software company. (ASX-IRI)-Lead in Fortune 500 customer license agreement negotiations including Pricing, Maintenance, and other terms and conditions.-Coach account managers on pricing, market and account strategy for major complex opportunities.-Leader in the driving of process improvement in accounting systems, forecasting, and corporate governance. -Successfully negotiated $800k facilities lease agreement.-Implemented software revenue recognition policies and procedures in accordance with SOP 97-2.

Storage for portable consumer electronic devices (Raised over $81M of Venture Capital Funding)-Responsible for forecasting and budgeting models across all departments. Streamlined process for predictable financial forecasts.-Led establishment of wholly-owned subsidiary and Representative Offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Japan. Established accounting partnerships and processes for foreign Representative Offices.-Participated in Series C Venture Capital fundraising efforts raising $51 Million from “top tier” VC’s.-Negotiated corporate real estate agreements including headquarters facilities expansion and Asian offices. -Assisted in debt-financing negotiations to support working capital needs. Raised $15M of equipment and receivables financing.

Voice Communications Software Development Company (Inc. 500 and Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 Company).-Responsible for the supervision of all finance and accounting operations and timely reporting for a rapidly growing venture capital-backed software company.-Led Venture Capital and Institutional Investor road show, including VC presentations - total funds raised over $15 million. -Successfully completed accounting, consolidation and integration for an acquired company.-Designed and implemented an integrated budgeting process across all twelve company departments.-Selected and implemented an enterprise accounting and project profitability system to provide management with reporting and analysis on custom software development projects.-Design and implementation of employee benefit plans including employee stock option plan, 401(k) plan, etc.-Supervised collection efforts resulting in reduction in past due accounts. DSO decreased from 95 to 43 days.