Provide financial and business process improvement consulting services to clients in a wide range of industries.

Accordion Partners is a unique financial consulting firm that drives and supports value creation for private equity portfolio companies. Comprised of seasoned financial professionals and executives with extensive private equity and consulting experience, Accordion brings deep technical skills, unbelievable drive, and critical thinking to serve the office of the CFO. Accordion's mission is to drive value for private equity firms and their investments through a thoughtful, integrated and measured approach. Working alongside management, we provide the precise functional and industry experience required at any stage of a project.

Led all FP&A functions for Ad Sales organization. Oversee all facets of forecasting, budgeting, planning, analyzing and reporting on division's revenue. Diligently managed organization's P&L including complete oversight of its expense profile.Produced monthly and quarterly business performance updates including variance analyses and industry-related reports to provide context on business performance.Maintained contractual database with television networks, technology vendors and revenue share partners.

Responsible for P&L and all FP&A functions for CBS Local's Local Commerce Group.Co-launched private programmatic ad exchange and self-serve audio streaming ad platform.Developed, negotiated and managed relationships with local advertising partners.Created and implement all internal operational processes to support new product launches - seamlessly integrating deal flow into existing sales channels.

Enabled expansion of running tour company into event-creation and management business.Oversaw budget, interactive marketing plan and social media outreach while maintaining strategic relationships.Co-Founder and head of operations for the Memorial Day Marathon in Lenox, MA and Fall Foliage Half Marathon in Rhinebeck, NY.Continue to run operations for both events to this day.

**Senior Manager – American Express Interactive (AXPi)**Managed marketing messaging and creative display of Prospect Cardmember Web site on AmericanExpress.com.Led strategic redesign of site, leading to 20% increase in online card conversions. Implemented search engine optimization functionality on new site.Responsible for Acquisition Content Enhancement project to build dynamically-generated content management system, which resulted in $2.5 million in annual cost savings.Led cross-functional team in implementing Ultimate Apply project, which produced significant incremental card conversions among prospective cardmembers.**Senior Manager – Business Development - Merchant Services – Supplier Enablement Team**Created financial and sales strategies for high-profile clients to uncover cost-saving opportunities through using the American Express Corporate Purchasing Card.Supervised technical and sales development of new customized ecommerce payment solution - Buyer Initiated Payments (BIP).Managed field- and tele-sales teams focused on acquiring new merchants.

Developed start-up New Media department to monetize Company's digital media assets while directly reporting to the CEO.Negotiated partnerships with mobile distribution, ad serving and content distribution companies.Developed internal operational process to coordinate sales, production, engineering and management teams to implement new opportunities.