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Billerica, Massachusetts, US

Provided finance and accounting advisory services to a variety of commercial and pre commercial companies including outsourced CFO services, fund raising, budgeting, strategic planning, etc.

• Involved in all levels of strategic planning and execution of the Company’s business plan starting with initial commercialization in 2013 and resulting in greater than 50% revenue growth rates each year and growth of.
• Raised $20M in common equity from a consortium of private equity funds, high net worth individuals and existing venture capital partners to fund expansion of commercialization efforts
• Raised multiple convertible debt rounds totaling $13M in net proceeds
• Negotiated a multi million dollar line of credit and capital equipment line with a mid sized commercial bank
• Responsibilities include investor and board relations for approximately 175 shareholders and 10 board members
• Built out and developed finance, accounting and managed care organizations

Tampa, Florida, US

• Responsible for driving strategic initiatives through geographical and core business lines
• Global P&L and operating metric accountability
• Responsible for development and execution of business acquisition and divestiture strategies resulting in greater than 20 acquisitions in the US, Europe, Australia and South Africa
• Designed and rolled out incentive plans to US operations resulting in greater than 10% improvement in EBITDA and significant improvement in customer satisfaction scores
• Oversaw the restructuring of European and Asia Pacific operations yielding significant improvements in EBITDA margin
• Designed and rolled out benchmarking and KPI tracking metrics to US, EMEA and Asia Pacific businesses leading to more accountability and best practice sharing across geographies

Tampa, Florida, US

London, GB

US

Brea, California, US

London, GB

Msa, Accounting

Bachelor Of Science, Finance