I am an experienced CPA and multi-disciplined entrepreneur. Currently, I am an audit partner with Beach, Freeman, Lim & Cleland, LLP, a full service CPA firm based in El Segundo, California. Our firm performs traditional accounting services for privately held companies (i.e. tax preparation and consulting, audits/reviews/compilations, financial consulting, etc.) specializing in services for the entrepreneur. I work with my clients in many different industries including technology, manufacturing/distribution, services, real estate, and not-for-profit. I have provided interim CFO/COO services to companies in various industries, allowing me to understand the principal drivers in a successful, growing business. In addition, I have started numerous businesses throughout my career, including a national, multifamily real estate company, C & F Real Estate.Specialties: (a) strategic planning (exit strategies or methods to diversify an entrepreneur's personal balance sheet away from the vast majority of his/her net worth being held in an illiquid investment), (b) operations (financial reporting structures, linking the employee goal setting/budgeting/performance evaluation cycle, recruiting and employee compensation strategies, etc.), and (c) providing solutions (inside or outside of our CPA firm) to various client issues, professionally or personally.