Mark Orton Email & Phone Number

Breckenridge, Co, Us

New York, Colorado And Singapore

BOD Member- Audit Committee Chair- Finance Committee Chair- Operations Committee Member

Breckenridge Colorado

Retired May 1 from Keysight Technologies. Active volunteer in local organizations around Summit County Colorado (Breckenridge area)

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Finance and Administrator Director and Controller for Keysight worldwide Customer Services and Support organization

Worldwide

Finance and Administrator Director and Controller for the Electronic Measurement Group worldwide Customer Services and Support organization.

Worldwide

Designed and delivered a global internal audit organization with energetic and talented teams based in all regions of the world. Migrated the audit approach to one that has in integrated strategy to audit financial, compliance and operational activities all during a single engagement. Organizational design of current team includes owning the companies occupational fraud evaluations, continuous auditing, integrated auditing and drive the governance, risk and compliance quarterly program.- Active participation to the company's Board of Directors Audit and Finance Committee, Compliance Council and Disclosure Committee.- Regular engagement and partnership with company's executive and senior management.- Proactively manage Agilent's relationship with the company's independent auditor.- Lead a team of 27 professionals located worldwide for US GAAP, SOX 404, Legal and regulatory compliance, company compliance, financial and operational auditing.

Active participation on the Senior Management team developing strategies and initiatives for the technology advancement of Agilent Technologies.- Managed the annual operating budget with active vendor relationships in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas- Actively participated in the current initiatives for compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act with the focus on system, access and process controls- Active participant in vendor relations and negotiations, financial portfolio modeling, business controls, management planning and reporting, SEC reporting, and both internal and external audit- Key member of the Senior IT Leadership team that developed the strategic plans to deliver significant savings to the company's bottom line

Developed, implemented and lead the strategy, structure and operations for a worldwide cost accounting and analysis team for all business groups within the Agilent Technologies portfolio.- Worked closely with Senior Executives to build the worldwide team from the ground up.- Consolidated operations from seventeen different geographies in ten countries into one worldwide team operating within a consistent strategy across all business groups.- Managed the strategic communications and worked directly with the Agilent business partners to ensure tight alignment in providing a high volume, low cost service- Worked daily with the ORACLE program office implementing the ORACLE and SAP cost accounting functionality for our manufacturing operations around the world with a primary focus on the manufacturing SuperCenters in Malaysia, Singapore and Sonoma County.- Implemented tight business controls within our order fulfillment community for the ORACLE and SAP platforms working closely with policies, corporate financial reporting, business finance and Agilent's Internal Audit organization.

Lead financial operations in seven sites around the world including Korea, Germany, China, Malaysia and the United States developing and implementing strategies for eight electronic industry segments.- Responsibilities included all internal controls and financial processes to ensure timely and accurate financial information for all business segments.- Partnered closely with the strategic supply chain organizations to redesign material flows and business processes enabling better business controls while shortening lower level material flows and upstream inventory levels.

Engaged and valued member of the Colorado Springs Technology Center (CSTC) Division Staff and Automated Test Group Sector Staff managing the CSTC organization to optimize HP results.- Provided a single interface for microcircuits that enabled a competitive advantage for our partners with banner specifications at the lowest overall cost.- Strategically managed our partners' microcircuit value delivery systems by offering leading edge technical solutions in a manner that optimizes the total cost envelop.- Product leverage from our organization is equal to over $14.5B in revenue for HP.

Bachelor Of Science And Business Administration, Finance & Accounting

Activities and Societies: Magna Cum Lauda CPA Colorado Society of CPA's AICPAMinor in Management Information Systems

Veterinary Medicine