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California, United States

New York, New York, Us

Uphold is a global FinTech company focused on leveraging blockchain and new technologies to democratize financial services for consumers and businesses. We are bringing finance into the digital age and solve its biggest legacy problems: transparency, access, cost, settlement times, and siloed assets. We believe that users will want one app for all their financial service needs and that value should move efficiently around the world 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We are building the simplest trading experience in the industry through our “Anything to Anything” platform. Allowing customers to trade directly between different asset classes, saving time and money. Our platform supports financial inclusion by enabling customers virtually anywhere to open an account in less than 5 minutes, ‘invest’ with no minimum amounts, ‘spend’ any supported asset through our debit card, and ‘send’ any value as money to virtually anyone with an email address. We are integrating with traditional financial rails and will bridge between old and new money systems. Today, we serve over 8 million consumers and hundreds of businesses in over 100 countries. Our users can transact between 250 cryptocurrencies, 34 fiat currencies, 4 precious metals, 50 equities and other assets such as carbon credits. Customers globally can deposit via cards, over 15 crypto networks, and bank accounts in 36 countries.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

The TMA is the organization overseeing turnaround professionals in the U.S. and it offers the Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) certification. I hold the CTP designation.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Meriturn is an advisor & investor focused on maximizing value through strategic and operational improvement.- Advised companies with as small as $5 million of revenue to over $1 billion.- Acquired control of 10 companies with >$500 million of revenue and >500 employees - Actively involved in many areas of the businesses from Strategy to Sales to Finance- Launched two successful consumer/retail companies/brands- Led numerous companies as Chairman, CEO, or COO/CFO - from negative EBITDA to profitability- Led the 3rd largest negligence award case in Chicago against an IP law firm ($7mm jury award)- Oversaw the CFO function for Meriturn and numerous other businesses (audit, tax, legal, etc.)

Pleasant Hill, Ca, Us

Sleepy Hollow is a real estate investment company with 16 office buildings and nearly 1 million rentable square feet throughout the Bay Area in California. As Board Member, I am managing the sale of all of the buildings for the foreign owners and overseeing all corporate development, finance and accounting issues and closing down the holding company operations post the M&A events.

Online interior design business bought by Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY).

San Francisco, California, Us

Brought in to assist this FinTech company with strategic/financial planning and forecasting.

San Francisco, California, Us

Dwell is a global multi-media business with print, online and events. The business was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Brought in to fix the accounting and finance department after a Series C round.

Net Value was a publicly traded internet incubator with offices in San Francisco, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. The company went public and reached a market capitalization of >$1 billion. I joined as CFO/COO when it was approximately $50 million in market cap and was promoted to President and granted a Board Seat after about a year - continued to manage the finance function in addition to overseeing the Investment Professionals, Investor Relations and General Counsel. I reported to the CEO & Founder.- Incubated 9 technology companies- Managed a team of 26 professionals- Selected into the CS First Boston "Internet Index"- Stock increased from $1 to $38 and then successfully managed through the tech collapse

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Asked to join the Strategy & Corporate Development Group in the Office of the Chairman- The group supported the Chairman and Vice-Chairs (strategy through the M&A activity)- Ranked #1, Far Exceeded Objectives- Managed teams of 30 people from many areas (marketing, accounting, tax, legal, HR, etc.)- Post-merger with NationsBank, promoted to manage the west coast and to Head Corporate Development globally for the Corporate & Investment Banking Group- Oversaw Associate and Analyst hiring

Charlotte, Nc, Us

- Co-Founded the International Capital Group with MD from the Private Placement Group- We performed over $3 billion of debt financing for foreign corporations and governments.- Ranked #1, Far Exceeded Objectives- Performed work from the Origination to Due Diligence to Closing- Closed deals in countries such as Argentina, Canada, England, Chile, China, Venezuela, etc.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Investment Banking Associate - Ranked #1, Far Exceeded Objectives in all years- Private Placement & High Yield Group- Project Finance & Leasing Group

Analyst training program - ranked in the top 10% of AnalystsYear 1 - Middle-Market Finance GroupYear 2 - Real Estate Finance Group

Mba, Finance, Economics, Marketing

Bsba, Business

Education record