Samuel Simmons Email & Phone Number

CFO with significant leadership experience in:- Initial Public Offering (IPO)- Moving through multiple key phases of growth from startup, to VC, growth equity, to exit, to public company, and public company to private company. - Successful, hyper-growth tech & retail companies - SaaS metrics, cloud, and subscription revenue businesses. Specific Accomplishments:- Solo Brands Initial Public Offering with peak value $2+ billion- Exits: LOGM $4.3B exit to Francisco Partners/Elliot (public to private), Jive $357M exit to $4B public company (LOGM), - Fundraising: raised debt and equity term sheets amounting to over $800M in financing with debt, VC, PE, and IPO sources. - M&A: Executed, led buy-side financial due diligence, & successfully on-boarded 10+ acquisitions- Bootstrapped: Head finance executive that initiated and ran the financial modeling, forecasting and investment modeling to take Jive from $0M to $250M+ ARR and to $25M prior to taking on any VC or growth investment, Solo Brands from a $100M+ company to ~$480M+- ROI Focus: Implemented KPI's and growth targets and metrics, including SaaS metrics, of new projects and investments that led to considerable growth and ROI. - Finance and Operations leadership: Implemented and managed accounting and finance teams that have successfully passed diligence for exit to public company and funding rounds, rolled out budgets, performed multiple successful audits, successfully transitioned accounting platform from Quickbooks, Intacct, Netsuite.. in one smooth transition, etc. Also managed Operations, Care/Retention, Sales Ops, Business Intelligence teams, Legal, HR, Rev Ops, etc at various stages of career.- Part of executive and management team that took a company from 0 to nine figures in revenue and an exit to one of the top ten public SaaS companies. - Public company finance executive over the fastest growing BU at one of the top ten public SaaS companies.Mentors: Don Pratt, John Pope, Ed Herdiech, Chris Beckstead, Chris Finn, Mike Sharp, Matt Peterson, Brent Thomson, Geraldine Alias, Jared Wilkes, Marty Ostermiller, Jay Markey... list could go on... grateful to the many I have worked with and learned from...