Edward James Email & Phone Number

United States

Knoxville, Tennessee, US

Inhabit makes software for excellent spaces! With almost $400M in revenue, we are a disruptive PropTech company serving the needs of enterprise property owners and property management companies in the multi-family and short-term rental industries. We are also a FinTech and InsureTech innovator, and we enable our customers to leverage our integrated.

Smyrna, GA, US

Providing insight and guidance based on years of executive experience and deep expertise across a number of industries on a wide range of topics: - Multi-industry expertise - Building world-class organizations in disruptive environments - Capital raises - Executive leadership advice - M&A diligence, integration, execution guidance - Financial leadership.

New York, New York, US

At $1B in global revenues, Epiq is the world's largest and most prolific technology-enabled professional service firm serving over 12,000 clients in the legal industry through 5 lines of business.As CFO, I am responsible for our financial operations, business intelligence, strategy formulation and execution, our real estate portfolio of over 100 locations.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Finance leadership: Responsible for formulating and implementing the company's financial strategy, budgeting, and reporting.
• Key member of executive team: partner to our CEO and advocate of the board. I'm our company's primary interface with all financial stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Capital Raises: Directly responsible for over $1.0B in capital raises since 2008 to support our company's growth initiatives and includes rated debt. In addition to providing growth capital, my efforts have lowered our.
• M&A: Leadership of the company's M&A group, partnering with the CEO on transaction negotiation, architecture, integration planning and execution. Recent transactions: Cbeyond ($323M value) in 2014 and 3 transactions in.
• Business strategy development, SaaS/UCaaS migration leadership.
• Interact directly with and report to board members and owners.

• Built and managed a publicly-reporting, international finance and accounting function with both domestic and international locations, from the ground, up
• Successfully negotiated and led a $12.5M Preferred Stock/Warrant placement
• Secured open-ended asset-based lending facility and factoring agreements, continued work with banks and financial institutions
• Partner to the CEO on business decisions, financing, and strategy
• Established 3 foreign subsidiaries to facilitate expansion of distribution
• Investor relations duties including meetings, calls, tradeshows and managing analysts with regular calls and meetings

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Finance responsibilities for the Wholesale and Mass Channel distribution channels, combined revenue of over $0.7B. Budget development, planning, reporting, accounting management, sales administration management
• Direct interface with executive staff, Board of Directors and committees, and VC firm
• Direct P&L responsibility for $33M in sales and over $10M in SG&A/Other COGS
• IPO/Secondary Offering support and SEC correspondence
• SEC filing responsibilities
• Internal Audit Committee, Disclosure Committee, Sarbanes-Oxley implementation

Atlanta, GA, US

• Cross-functional project manager responsible for comprehensive due-diligence analyses for “new-to-industry”, “new-to-world”, and “line-extension” concepts.
• Projects were international in scope with revenue impacts ranging up to $600M annually.
• NPV, EVA, DCF, IRR, and MIRR evaluations
• Presented recommendations to executive management, M&A, and the Board of Directors.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Managed multi-state accounting in a shared services center with over 200 employees
• Responsible for accounting, budgeting, and forecasting for 5 states and $1.5B in revenues; G/L, A/R, A/P (20K invoices per month), payroll (65k payments per month)
• Project lead for migration of manual accounting activities to automated, web-based systems.
• Recognition for outstanding internal audit performance
• Region Manager of the Quarter for overall contribution to financial performance

Atlanta, GA, US

• Managed the shared service center’s IT function and network maintenance
• Administered technical support for 200 employees
• Programmed numerous web-based and stand-alone reporting utilities for operational cost control, strategic marketing analysis, and administrative productivity.
• Planned and executed the consolidation of 5 IT service centers into one location.
• Implemented outsourcing relationships that improved data quality and timeliness.
• Region Manager of the Quarter for overall contribution to financial performance.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Responsible for billing $25 million in revenue weekly
• Planned and controlled the consolidation of 5 states’ billing process into a single location
• Managed 47 administrative and technical employees
• Implementing new procedures that reduced department expense by $3,500 per day
• Corporate recognition for outstanding internal audit performance

Atlanta, GA, US

• Directly managed and trained skilled loaders and dispatched 35 delivery vehicles

Mba, Finance

Bachelors, Finance

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