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California, United States

San Francisco, California, Us

Provide CFO and accounting services on a part-time and interim consulting basis. Focus on early-stage growth and turnarounds in social impact and technology industries. Notable projects include: • Sigora. Provide part-time CFO and accounting to venture that builds and operates micro-grid utilities based on renewable, primarily solar and wind, energy in emerging economies.• Synergy Organic Clothing. Provide part-time CFO and accounting to clothing designer using organic materials from India and Nepal, to create jobs and a sustainable supply chain.• UtilityAPI. Provide part-time CFO and accounting to company that makes it easy for solar companies to access utility bill and usage history to validate energy savings for homes.• EveryLayer. Provide part-time CFO and accounting to company that aims to radically lower the cost of Internet connectivity across emerging markets.• Pivot Works. Provide part-time CFO and accounting to company that eliminates the burden of urban sanitation in emerging markets by converting human waste into industrial fuel.• Hope Through Health. Provide part-time CFO and accounting to nonprofit that is the only international NGO providing lifesaving healthcare in a northern region of Togo.• We Care Solar. Provide part-time CFO and accounting to nonprofit that reduces maternal mortality by providing solar energy to health clinics in developing regions for lighting.• BSR. Interim CFO for $22 million consulting firm with offices in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, New York, Paris, Denmark, San Francisco and Japan. • Worldreader. As part time CFO, led development of strategic plan to reach tens of millions of mobile device users with largest digital library of African and Indian literature. • VisionSpring. As consulting CFO, helped develop business model to secure $1 million debt financing. • Driptech. As consulting CFO, led strategic planning to sell patented irrigation technology in India.

San Francisco, California, Us

CHALLENGE: Move to Africa to supervise work of 30 in seven countries across two continents and build integrated corporate functions capable of handling significant growth of social enterprise that uses private-sector value chain and mass-marketing to sell new technologies, which are bought by entrepreneurs earning less than $2 a day to start highly profitable small businesses.ACTIONS: As Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer of 250 employee, award-winning social enterprise, I manage finance operations across offices in Kenya, Tanzania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Zambia and US to lead financial, treasury and risk management functions as well as budgeting, grants administration, accounting and auditing. I have also been responsible for the IT function and global implementation of Microsoft NAV enterprise software to integrate financial, donor, staff, product, and customer data. I oversaw metrics unit to measure product performance and launched a 3-year independent study of KickStart’s impacts.RESULTS: Launched full enterprise suite and 1st multi-country ERP installation in Africa. Duties expended to include metrics. Recruited and trained new finance, IT and metrics teams. Increased preparedness for independent audits to reduce completion time and management letter findings by 2/3rds. Won Board confidence corporate functions could be led from US, where I have been transferred. Secured $2 million working capital line-of-credit at the forefront of impact investing.

Washington, Dc, Us

Oversaw and reported directly to the Board, all matters related to finance, accounting, audit assurance, budgeting, field compliance, asset management, tax and regulatory requirements of 116 employee, international, nonprofit social enterprise. I directed HR administration, including all compensation-related issues, performance appraisals, benefits, insurance, facility management, security, IT systems and legal affairs. I maintained key external relationships with bankers, auditors and legal counsel. And I launched an Serenic Navigator accounting software upgrade to achieve significant improvement of grant management, budgeting and financial reporting.

Independent consultant to new-venture CEOs. Representative clients and partners included:• BrightNoon Technologies LLC. Acted as chief financial and marketing officer to raise capital for content distribution software startup.• RationalChoice, Inc. Led sales of internet application for click-and-mortar commerce in consumer appliance industry. Helped secure second round of financing from venture capital investors.• MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Advised three startup teams to create and present business plans in contest hailed by Wall Street Journal as “nation's hottest seedbed of high-tech entrepreneurial success.” Out of 150 entrants, one advised startup was chosen as an award winner and another became a finalist.

Recruited to provide turnaround management of for-profit social enterprise:• Increased distributor channel by 400% by segmenting market and reorganizing sales force.• Negotiated exclusive license agreement and supply contracts to reduce costs by 36%. • Raised capital and swapped debt to improve balance sheet position by 200%. • Led team of 20 and fulfilled P&L responsibility including diligent cash management.• Mediated shareholder disputes including terms of divestiture and restructuring of equity..

Internal auditor responsible for spearheading corporate initiatives of NYSE, $1+ billion company:• Project managed multidiscipline effort at 84 person operation, which removed low value activities to achieve $500,000 savings in annual operating costs and 50% reduction in product lead times. • Developed management system for corporate-wide compliance with Toxic Substances Control Act under consent agreement with EPA. Completed project at 41% of budget. • Worked with corporate development to evaluate acquisitions, analyze competitors, and develop businesses valuation model. Managed due diligence for divestiture of $100 million joint venture..

Lancaster, Pa, Us

Designed performance optimization plan for HDPE plastic recycling plant during summer between first and second year of business school..

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for research and advocacy to increase recycling in New York:• Audited New York City’s recycling program and developed plan to reduce costs by 50%.• Initiated joint effort with banks, industry and government that led to siting of urban recycling plant. • Developed NRDC’s positions on issues and lobbied them at state and city legislative hearings..

New York, New York, Us

• Coordinated pricing alternatives with sales force for three billion-dollar money market portfolio.• Kept books and developed specialized database that predicts quarter-end liability position. • Responsibilities expanded to include trading of commercial paper and credit decision-making..

Mba, Finance, Operations

A.B., Bachelor Of Arts, Philosophy

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