Gary Meisner, Mba / Cpa (Inactive) Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tn, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Member of a team of global Value Management consulting professionals who engage with prospects, customers, and partners to identify, quantify, and communicate the strategic value and financial impact that NetSuite can deliver through our market-leading business commerce cloud platform.

Provided pre and post implementation consulting services on NetSuite cloud-based ERP, including financial reporting, analytics, KPI's, dashboards, commission programs, CRM and inventory management initiatives. Performed data architecture analysis, mapping, conversion and imports. Added significant value for clients by recommending and implementing best practices, improving business processes, system customizations, enhancing reporting and training employees on how to get the most from the system.Assisted with sale and transition of former employer where I was the CFO. Developed a strategic model to facilitate the sale. Developed post-acquisition operating plan. Implemented Adaptive Planning, a cloud-based financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting system, deployed with Netsuite cloud-based SaaS ERP.Assisted a local start-up company with improvements in accounting, business processes, systems and e-commerce platforms.Launched a consumer products business, creating a brand, importing product internationally and selling online and through the Amazon FBA program.Launched a new version of a software product I created in 2004 that has sold to thousands of users in over seventy countries.Authored a book with an international publisher that quickly reached the top position in its category on Amazon and has been translated into eight languages.

Franklin, Tn, Us

Provided overall financial and administrative direction to VC / private equity-backed technology growth company in data, software and media services.Contributed to reorganization and restart of this industry-leading company, closing three offices, establishing the Nashville headquarters office, completely replacing business systems, doubling revenues and improving profitability eight-fold.Led accounting, finance, business systems, H/R, customer service, product, legal and administrative areas.Led implementation of NetSuite cloud-based SaaS ERP software for this recurring revenue subscription business.Led transition to a PEO-based employment model to improve benefits programs and professional support in H/R and payroll functions.Analyzed business development opportunities on key product, customer and market growth initiatives.

Franklin, Tn, Us

Provided overall financial direction to business unit leaders and supporting teams of the largest part of this rapidly growing public healthcare company, a $0.5 billion commercial healthcare group.Participated in the formation of a new process-based organization structure with eight business units.Initiated and led the selection and implementation of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (formerly Outlooksoft) to increase operating performance, improve forecasting accuracy and the effectiveness of dozens of financial team staff members.Left due to restructuring related to a major acqusition and downturn in business.

Primary liaison with investment bankers on divestiture of $0.8B unit of public company.Interim CFO in seeking funding and strategic alliances for a wireless mesh networking startup.Business development on energy saving systems. Developed new sales strategy based on financial impact.Developed commercial software and related website which achieved #1 position in its category on Google. Sold to thousands of users in over 70 countries.

Monroe, Mi, Us

Provided overall financial, technology and strategic direction to the Group President and management teams of eight companies and several international joint ventures of the $1.5 Billion Upholstery Group, which covered 75% of this public company.Implemented Sarbanes-Oxley and developed a program for focusing on key financial controls and analytics that became the corporate standard.Created the first corporate-wide sales data warehouse and business intelligence application using ArcPlan and SQL to leverage customer relationships across brands and to identify new sales opportunities.Developed the vision, business case and financial justification for a multi-divisional ERP project using J.D. Edwards.Identified and resolved balance sheet and inventory errors that had gone undetected in internal audits.Performed organizational assessments that led to the replacement of three division controllers.Left due to restructuring following change in CEO.

Brooklyn, New York, Us

SVP, CFO of FISI-Madison Financial, which was later renamed Progeny Marketing Innovations and then sold to Affinity Acquisition Holdings LLC. Worked on restructuring the company during new federal privacy regulations that impacted its go-to-market model and during the terrorism attacks on September 11, 2001.

Acquired by United Dominion Industries in 1990, which was acquired by SPX in 2001. Provided direction on financial, strategic, technology and human resource areas to the Group President and the presidents and controllers of five business units with operations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.Participated in acquisition of six companies and the sale of our own company. Prepared and delivered presentations to owners, purchasers and bankers. Coordinated due diligence and integration.Led the Corporate I/T Center of Excellence within UDI, which ranked 34th of 500 companies in Information Week’s listing of the most innovative users of information technology.Re-engineered the annual planning process, reducing preparation time and improving flexibility.Co-chaired TQM initiative, providing training, process improvements and balanced scorecards.Restructured compensation programs to pay-for-performance basis.Proposed and directed a $4M project to replace outdated mainframe systems with an AS/400-based ERP system, reducing I/T costs by $1M per year and staff by more than 50% and creating strategic advantage.Proposed the spin-off of a product line into a separate business that grew from $20M to $50M.Assisted in sale of own company and coordinated office relocation to Nashville from Chicago.Significantly improved systems and controls, reducing the closing cycle to two days from two weeks.

Glenview, Il, Us

Final position as Group Controller, preceded by Controller & Operations Manager, Accounting Manager, Financial Reporting & Analysis Manager, and Internal Auditor. Led systems implementations and improvements in all roles.

Audit Senior, managing audits of public and private companies in the manufacturing sector.

Mba, Finance

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Accountancy

B.S., Accountancy

Mba, Finance & Marketing