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California, United States

San Jose, California, Us

Eargo is a medical device company dedicated to improving the quality of life of people with hearing loss. Our innovative products and go-to-market approach address the major challenges of traditional hearing aid adoption, including social stigma, accessibility and cost.Hired to partner with the CEO and CFO in taking Eargo public and providing leadership for the company as a public entity. He leads the controllership function which includes among other areas SEC reporting, technical accounting, tax, and revenue operations. Furthermore, he oversees stock plan administration, treasury, payroll, and SOX. Key business partner and stakeholder, collaborating with FP&A, investor relations, legal, sales, supply chain, R&D, and IT to drive execution, analysis and internal and external reporting of the Company’s business and performance.

San Jose, California, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

Founded in 2013 by the co-creators of MPEG-DASH, the video standard used by Netflix and YouTube, Bitmovin’s API makes high-quality, fast-buffering video streaming easy to achieve for developers and content providers. Bitmovin is used by major broadcasters to market leading social media giants, and developers around the world as the top choice for high quality deployments across a wide range of industries from media and OTT to UGC, social video, eLearning, industrial training, monitoring, and more.Hired by the Bitmovin Board to partner with the Bitmovin CEO to prepare the EU-originated company for an initial public offering. Responsibilities included IPO-preparedness, overseeing finance, accounting, tax and treasury and risk management functions.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Post acquisition responsibilities included: - Point-person for all VeloCloud by VMware (“VBV”) finance and accounting related transition and integration matters. - Oversaw Velocloud by VBV’s revenue operations (billing, collections, revenue), spearheaded knowledge transfer and development within VMW’s global revenue operations and oversaw VBV’s monthly/quarterly revenue and COGS forecast. - Oversaw the operations and wind-down transition of VBV’s disbursements, payroll, treasury, and risk management operations and global VBV administrative functions into VMW.

Palo Alto, California, Us

VeloCloud is a Cloud-Delivered networking start-up backed by NEA, Venrock & The Fabric. VeloCloud dramatically simplifies the WAN by delivering virtualized services from the cloud to branch offices and mobile users everywhere.Responsibilities included finance and accounting leadership focused on team scaling, operational infrastructure buildout as well as strategic leadership.

ServiceSource (SREV) is a Cloud and SaaS market leader in recurring revenue management for Global 1000 and Fortune 500 companies.Helped to spearhead SREV's inorganic activities (M&A, Business Development, Strategic Partnerships), Strategy (Build, Buy, Partner) and Post Merger Integration (PMI).

*M&A and strategic financial consulting to the technology sector*Pro-Bono consulting advice on strategy, financial management and funding advice to start-ups

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Served as a key member of the Citrix corporate strategic development group that drove mergers and acquisitions, corporate venture capital investments, and technology licensing activities. Responsible for activities that resulted in over two dozen transactions with a cumulative value exceeding $1.2B: - Developed, directed and/or led all negotiation, valuation, due diligence, integration planning, and transaction close activities related to US and international M&A, corporate venture capital (strategic) investments and technology licensing. - Responsible for managing the end-to-end transaction process including overseeing and managing the activities and work product of the virtual deal team (corporate functions), business units, attorneys, investment bankers, and other transaction consultants. - Represented Citrix as a Board Observer at various venture-backed-companies.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Primary focus area - Mergers & AcquisitionsAreas of responsibilities included deal management, valuation impact and assessment, due diligence, contract negotiation and support, integration risk assessment and preliminary integration planning: - Led or co-Led UPS’ initial multi-billion initiative into the LTL (less-than-truckload) sector, divestiture of its Aviation Technologies Division, supply chain related acquisitions and UPS Store area franchise development negotiations. - Executed all phases of UPS’ domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, including UPS Store Franchise (Mailboxes, Etc.) and supervised deal team, business unit participants, investment bankers, and attorneys.

New York, Ny, Us

KPMG M&A and Transaction Advisory Practice: 2000-2003Director, Transaction Advisory Services - Led accounting and financial aspects of US and international M&A transactions for clients across the European Union, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Asia. - Performed transaction advisory services for strategic buyers and financial buyers on acquisitions with a cumulative value exceeding $10 billion. Audit Manager - Performed audits, reviews, and consulting services of private and publicly traded companies in the financial services, agri-business, hospitality, entertainment, real estate, and manufacturing industries. - Provided accounting expertise and services for initial public offerings, secondary offerings, debt, and other equity financing transactions, including comfort letters, 10-K, 10-Q preparation and review of Company and other required SEC filings.

The Emerging Cfo: Strategic Financial Leadership Program

Master'S Degree, Accounting

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Accounting