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Atlanta, GA, US

Kennesaw, GA, US

• Encompass Advisors offers an array of accounting and financial services including interim-CFO, strategic financial planning, accounting operations improvement, and financial modeling, with a particular focus on private.
• Interim-CFO for $165 million private equity (CI Capital) event services company with 28 locations providing event management services to corporations for employee and customer events.
• CFO Consultant assisting a $125 million private equity (High Road Capital) building hardware wholesale distribution company with mentoring their CFO in preparation for an exit transaction and with financial analysis in.
• Hands-on consultant assisting a $50 million private equity (Excellere) Independent Medical Examination platform company convert two recent acquisitions from cash to accrual and then integrating them into the parent.
• CFO Consultant to a recently acquired $50-million private equity owned anesthesia practice with more than 125 physicians located in Michigan and Florida.
• Interim-CFO to a recently acquired $20-million private equity owned dental services organization (DSO) that provides administration and management support to 16 dental practices, located in Massachusetts and Vermont.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

- The company’s platform enables personalized management of chronic cardiometabolic conditions across populations, including diabetes, heart failure, Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis. - As their first CFO, after raising a $5mil Series A round, I have been focused on setting up infrastructure and processes, developing.

• Software and technology platform enabled multi-location medical services company delivering health & wellness solutions nationwide via a cloud based telehealth platform to self-insured companies seeking to improve.
• Responsible for all financial, accounting and administrative functions, including human resources, legal, and regulatory.
• Oversaw the tripling of revenue over four years as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and a key member of the executive team developing the strategic direction of the company.
• Mapped the regulatory strategic direction in the areas of delivering healthcare services directly to employers, nationwide telehealth offering, and establishing high-deductible health plan compliant billing procedures.
• Advised CEO and supported six (6) capital raising efforts, including two Preferred Stock offerings, two convertible promissory note offerings, and two Bank of America line-of-credit facilities.
• Negotiated and executed the migration of company employees to the TriNet PEO organization, the largest PEO in the country, providing a streamlined platform for rapid employee growth.

• Quantum Immunologics is an early stage biotech company that is focused on developing and bringing to market a cancer treatment utilizing immunotherapy (harnessing the body's immune system to find and attack cancer.
• Developed a 10-year strategic financial model in Excel and drafted the business plan document for this start-up bio-tech company providing a flexible platform for long-term planning and capital raising initiatives.
• Developed the initial accounting and finance infrastructure to support the company and its research and development efforts, as well as its FDA authorized phase I / II clinical trial focused on metastatic stage IV.
• Supported capital raising efforts focused principally at individual investors and oversaw the shareholder administrative for the 400 plus individual shareholders.
• Completed the asset purchase of the exclusive license to develop and sell the treatments utilizing the universal cancer protein, Oncofetal Antigen (OFA).
• Oversaw the successful completion of the first financial audit of the company.

Atlanta, GA, US

• A division of Randstad US, a $22B global provider of Talent Solutions. Tatum provides strategic and operating leadership and consulting in finance and information technology. My significant assignments include the.
• Over three years as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the US subsidiary of a European ophthalmic lens manufacturing and distribution.
• Negotiated a forbearance agreement and raised a new $20 million Convertible Preferred Note with the senior creditor for an ophthalmic lens manufacturing and distribution company.
• Successfully raised $2.5 million in senior secured debt while restructuring the ophthalmic lens company’s balance sheet.North Star Waste, Inc., Chief Financial Officer (CFO) (6/2005 - 4/2006)
• Orchestrated the turnaround of an environmental services company resulting in more than $1 million in annual cash savings, bringing the company to break-even, and a successful sale of the company.Express Check Advance.
• More than two and a half years as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of a private equity owned and hedge fund financed consumer financial services company.

$50 million venture capital funded start-up international data communications company focused on the global IP services market and headquartered in Ireland with operations in six countries and an IP network spanning 13 countries. Recruited by a founder who I worked with at both SITA and WorldPort Communications.

London, London, GB

$60 million wholly owned subsidiary of Interoute Communications Limited (UK). Recruited by the CEO who I worked with at WorldPort Communications.

A venture backed Nasdaq traded telecommunications start-up company. Recruited by the COO who I worked with at SITA.

Geneva, Geneva, CH

$1.3 billion 45-year-old international voice and data telecommunications and information technology company owned by the airlines of the world.

Southlake, Texas, US

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Mba, Finance & Accounting