I’m a Finance Executive who worked as CFO for multinational companies and who partnered with shareholders and the CEO to form one of the worldwide leading organizations in translation and digital content management. As an entrepreneurial minded CFO and change agent I’m passionate about corporate growth, operational excellence/profitability improvement and multi-cultural team management and mentoring. I’m an experienced M&A deal maker who has conducted numerous transactions fueling the top line growth/diversification and global expansion. As for operational excellence – I’m passionate about harmonization and standardization of processes and systems, building shared services functions for global operations and achieving efficiency gains through adoption of automation. I’m well versed in managing multi-cultural global teams through hands-on talent development and mentorship.Representative Career Highlights Include:✔ Successfully partnered with CEO to develop a global leader in the tech-enabled services industry (Localization/Globalization/Document and Digital Content Management and Digital Customer Experience Management)✔ Chaired sell-side transaction and Carve-out process to successfully conclude merger project and conducted post-merger consolidation operations facilitating cost savings worth $15M incl. the successful roll-up of shared services structure and unified end-to-end business processes to acquiring group of entities✔ Originated, evaluated, negotiated, and concluded growth acquisitions in various regions (US, Benelux, France, Eastern Europe) leading to successful sector and service diversification✔ Spearheaded global transformation and strategy programs leading to efficiency gains and cost savings worth $10M✔ Designed and deployed unified global functional organization (Finance, Legal, QM, IT) in shared services structure supporting client facing organizations throughout 25 countries with common backend processes and ERP systems✔ Hired, trained, and managed shared services Finance, Legal and QM in overseas locations (Baltics, Portugal)✔ Developed cascading financial management reporting and KPI framework facilitating functional performance reviews as well as board room presentations and chaired successful deployment of new ERP system, SAP S/4HANA