Michael Sluka, Cpa Cmaa Cepa Email & Phone Number

My first career leg was as a CPA firm partner at KPMG LLP. I learned what made companies flourish or flounder over 2 1/2 decades...ranging in size from GE to two brothers running a leather tannery. I switched from accounting and advisory to being an online operator as a segment CFO for Fairfax Financial (Toronto:FRFHF). Our segment acquired distressed businesses for restructuring and turnaround. My job was basically to turn losses into profits for the better part of a decade. Absorbing knowledge and gaining experience in the large company and public company sectors for more than 30 years, I was drawn to apply both into the private company middle-market. I joined an entrepreneurial family business as CFO. Joining at $50M annual revenue, we achieved the concurrent goals of $250M revenue and NYSE IPO seven years later. This experience demonstrated that a company can achieve both phenomenal growth and at the same time adopt the controls and risk management that are necessary to attract outside capital.After that, I returned to my advisory roots, first as a fractional CFO and now as a business value growth advisor. I have merged the length and breadth of my experiences with a suite of modern-day applications and tools so that middle-market companies can achieve exponential growth in market value through a guided and owner/employee-leveraged process. I have also learned that a business owner should always be preparing to convert that growth into long-term value and not just this year's income....sometimes, opportunities come along to convert the next ten years of hard work into value received today. Effectively, a business strategy is an exit strategy and vice-versa. I have combined my credentials of CPA, CMAA and CEPA into an approach where you can grow your income as well as your attractiveness and readiness to harvest increased company value.

Listed skills include Insurance, Risk Management, Liability, Management, and 16 others.

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  Quinlan School Of Business, Loyola University Chicago

  Accounting And Finance