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Boston, MA, US

Tigard, Oregon, US

Palo Alto, CA, US

Chesbro Bridge Advisors improves corporate performance by providing proven practices across the corporate enterprise including financial, transactional, and business operations. Chesbro has been uniquely successful in its ability to apply "tried and true" processes to successfully complete critical strategic initiatives while garnering organizational trust.

Parsippany, New Jersey, US

Cork, IE

• I was appointed to turnaround a severely underperforming Project Management Office and its staff of eight, taking on responsibility for divesting the ADT and Flow Control business units, and integrating the operations.
• Created two new publicly-traded companies, meeting shareholder and all other stakeholder expectations.
• Reduced operational footprint and consolidated back-office of remaining companies, including reconfiguring 120 field offices.

Cork, IE

• Promoted to transition money-losing $500M Latin American region to profitability, I led a team of 12 direct reports with oversight for budgeting, forecasting, accounting and strategic planning. I partnered with region.
• Drove the doubling of revenue in the region.
• Reduced the close process from five days to three and established an operating review cadence.
• Acquired five companies and divested two country operations, and a non-core Chilean business.
• Implemented Oracle ERP Financials.
• Obtained multi-million-dollar insurance settlement for Chile earthquake damages in an unusually fast timeframe.

Cork, IE

• With a team of ten, I led global SOX compliance programs for worldwide HQ locations. By applying best practices culled from prior success in Fire and Security Division, I strengthened strategy, execution, reporting.
• Implementing the company’s first-ever enterprise-wide risk assessment, leading to major reduction in controls.
• Eliminating excessive external audit fees yearly.

Cork, IE

• As part of a cost reduction and efficiency improvement initiative for payroll and A/P, I was appointed to identify and implement strategies for the creation of a shared services capability. I recruited and developed a.
• Enabled yearly processing of 2.7M invoices, saving millions annually.
• Generated payroll for 50,000 employees with seven-figure cost savings.
• Created a scalable, sustainable framework for global implementation of shared services capability.

Cork, IE

• I was promoted into this role to prepare and equip the company to meet SOX compliance audits for company’s largest global division, which was widely dispersed and inconsistent. I oversaw a team of 60 compliance.
• Achieved no significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in first year of SOX and every year since.
• Received Tyco Chairman’s Award for Financial Excellence.

Cork, IE

• I was elevated from director to VP in 2000 after building a team of more than 60 global auditors to support rapid organic and acquisition-based growth of company. As VP and reporting directly to the board of directors.
• Identified and remediated operational and financial deficiencies, preventing misstatements and impact on asset loss.

Cork, IE

Las Rozas, Madrid, ES