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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Alameda, California, United States

Alameda, California, United States

At the helm of The Phynance Group, my mission is to elevate small businesses in Alameda, California through strategic financial and operational guidance. With an extensive background as a CFO, I've cultivated a robust skill set in financial strategy, operational leadership, and a general business acumen that has been instrumental in facilitating meaningful growth for the companies I’ve worked with.

Consulting and Interim CFO for a variety of venture backed start-ups.Select Clients include: • LeadSpace • Placements, Inc. • Second Front Systems • Dialog Health • Ridwell • Element Analytics • Sigma Computing • Upland Software • GeoTerrestrial • MoBolt, Inc.

Using its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, Aether enables its customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.After serving as a part-time Consulting CFO to Aether for several years, I joined full-time and led the Finance, HR, Recruiting, Legal, and Real Estate functions at one time or another. In conjunction with the CEO, we successfully raised a $47m Series A round, for which I led the due diligence process.

San Francisco Bay Area

Akoonu is a strategic marketing platform for account-based marketing and selling that empowers B2B marketers to understand how and when to connect with every buyer in an account.Thrilled to be working with many former Clickability colleagues, I was brought on to handle all the customary CFO responsibilities while also running Professional Services.

LeanData provides the Revenue Ops platform to manage across all go-to-market motions to increase speed to revenue, improve the buyer experience and better align sales and marketing.As LeanData was scaling, the Board and CEO realized that it was no longer feasible for the financial and operational functions of the company to be handled by the CEO and other executives in their "spare" time. I was brought on in a part-time capacity to create the finance processes and systems that would… Show more LeanData provides the Revenue Ops platform to manage across all go-to-market motions to increase speed to revenue, improve the buyer experience and better align sales and marketing.As LeanData was scaling, the Board and CEO realized that it was no longer feasible for the financial and operational functions of the company to be handled by the CEO and other executives in their "spare" time. I was brought on in a part-time capacity to create the finance processes and systems that would support the company's rapid growth. The company continued to grow and eventually needed a full-time CFO who I help to vet and onboard. Show less

San Francisco Bay Area

Stringify transforms the way you connect your life, by bringing your digital and physical Things together to create experiences to help you save time, save money, stay healthy, and have a little fun.I partnered with the CEO in setting the strategic direction of the company. I ran all Finance, HR, and legal functions for Stringify and worked very closely with the Business Development team. I was integral to the closing of the company's Seed round and successfully closed a venture debt… Show more Stringify transforms the way you connect your life, by bringing your digital and physical Things together to create experiences to help you save time, save money, stay healthy, and have a little fun.I partnered with the CEO in setting the strategic direction of the company. I ran all Finance, HR, and legal functions for Stringify and worked very closely with the Business Development team. I was integral to the closing of the company's Seed round and successfully closed a venture debt round to extend the company's runway.I became a member of the BOD and was a key executive in the process that resulted in the acquisition of the Stringify team by Comcast in September 2017. Show less

Seattle, Wa

Outreach is the leading sales execution platform helping revenue organizations create and close more pipeline.I was brought in to Outreach following their Series A and built the entire finance function from the ground up. • Served as an Executive team member reporting directly to the CEO• Provided the BOD with regular guidance including historical financials and forward looking financial modeling and analysis. • Implemented a new billing and subscription management… Show more Outreach is the leading sales execution platform helping revenue organizations create and close more pipeline.I was brought in to Outreach following their Series A and built the entire finance function from the ground up. • Served as an Executive team member reporting directly to the CEO• Provided the BOD with regular guidance including historical financials and forward looking financial modeling and analysis. • Implemented a new billing and subscription management system that allowed the company to truly understand their customer metrics (retention, churn, ASP, etc). • Prepared six quarters worth of GAAP financials that had not previously existed. Outreach successfully raised a $17.5M Series B by the end of my engagement with company, at which point they brought on a full-time CFO, with whom I developed and executed a transition plan to ensure a smooth handoff. Show less

San Francisco Bay Area

• Transitioned day-to-day financial operations of Clickability to the internal Limelight accounting team. • Ensured that 100% of the indemnification holdback related to the acquisition was released to investors. • Responsible for pricing and deal support for all sales opportunities, including complex deals bundling multiple Limelight products. • Assumed responsibility for revenue reporting and forecasting for multiple SaaS business units. • Owned P&L reporting and… Show more • Transitioned day-to-day financial operations of Clickability to the internal Limelight accounting team. • Ensured that 100% of the indemnification holdback related to the acquisition was released to investors. • Responsible for pricing and deal support for all sales opportunities, including complex deals bundling multiple Limelight products. • Assumed responsibility for revenue reporting and forecasting for multiple SaaS business units. • Owned P&L reporting and forecasting for the Professional Services organizations. • Instrumental in the sale of the Web Content Management business (formerly Clickability, Inc) to Upland Software. • Responsible for financial due diligence materials and preparing financial projections, budgets, and other analysis for potential acquirers. Show less

San Francisco Bay Area

Clickability was the leading Software-as-a-Service Web Content Management (WCM) offering and the only provider to deliver cloud WCM to the enterprise. Industries served included high-tech, financial services, manufacturing, and publishing. Clickability partnered with customers to help them strategically build their online presence, to drive business results through their website, and reduce costs of web operations. Clickability was founded by four Stanford friends in a proverbial… Show more Clickability was the leading Software-as-a-Service Web Content Management (WCM) offering and the only provider to deliver cloud WCM to the enterprise. Industries served included high-tech, financial services, manufacturing, and publishing. Clickability partnered with customers to help them strategically build their online presence, to drive business results through their website, and reduce costs of web operations. Clickability was founded by four Stanford friends in a proverbial “garage”. The Founders built a company dedicated to its customers and with a strong set of core values which allowed it to not only survive two economic downturns, but also evolve to become a trusted and respected provider of enterprise-class, mission critical services. The company raised a total of $17M over four rounds of equity financing (friends & family, angel, Series A & B), and is frequently described by employees as the “best place they have ever worked”.Acquired by Limelight Networks in May 2011.Acquired by Upland Software in December 2013. Show less

San Francisco Bay Area

• Instrumental in a successful M&A process which secured a stable, positive future for the business, team and customers. • Responsible for providing all financial projections and finance related diligence requested by prospective investors and acquirers. • Led three separate venture debt rounds, totaling approximately ten million dollars and secured capital equipment financing of several million dollars. • Partnered with Professional Services and Account Management to reduce… Show more • Instrumental in a successful M&A process which secured a stable, positive future for the business, team and customers. • Responsible for providing all financial projections and finance related diligence requested by prospective investors and acquirers. • Led three separate venture debt rounds, totaling approximately ten million dollars and secured capital equipment financing of several million dollars. • Partnered with Professional Services and Account Management to reduce customer service credits issued by 93% in one year. • Supported the sales team by maintaining and improving complex pricing model and training new sales staff on deal economics. Involved in customer contract negotiations and proficient at finding creative solutions to obstacles in the sales process. • Produced reporting packages for both the Board and the Executive staff, resulting in increased transparency in the company's operations. • Established accounting processes and prepared audited financial statements. Show less

San Francisco Bay Area

• Built a complex financial model that accurately projected full sets of financials under varying scenarios. Assumptions, such as customer retention, average sales price (ASP), sales productivity, headcount, growth, and many others, could be altered to run what-if scenarios and understand the impact of those changes to the business. • Migrated company from Quickbooks to Intacct, allowing for a more accurate and scalable accounting function. • Managed company ESOP and implemented… Show more • Built a complex financial model that accurately projected full sets of financials under varying scenarios. Assumptions, such as customer retention, average sales price (ASP), sales productivity, headcount, growth, and many others, could be altered to run what-if scenarios and understand the impact of those changes to the business. • Migrated company from Quickbooks to Intacct, allowing for a more accurate and scalable accounting function. • Managed company ESOP and implemented eProsper Cap-Table management software. • Maintained responsibility for the day-to-day financial management throughout the company’s growth: billing, AP, AR, payroll, negotiating office leases and other significant vendor contracts, and creating and measuring commission and bonus plans. • Supported the Professional Services and Technical Support teams, including reporting on operational metrics to gauge the success of these groups. • 500% revenue growth without increase in finance or operations staff. Show less

San Francisco Bay Area

• Provided 24/7 technical, sales, and professional services support to high-volume online media publishers. • Personally implemented tens of sophisticated websites for customers on Clickability's software, blending my technical aptitude and in-depth product knowledge with strong communication skills to ensure that complex projects were accomplished on time and on budget. • Grew the team to approximately four employees, including my own replacement.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Founding Engineer of the award winning Clickability Platform. • Coordinated the efforts of the Software Development, Systems Engineering, Product Management, and Quality Assurance teams. • Developed and designed all aspects of Clickability’s original applications. • Developed Clickability's coding standards and best practices and managed the build and release processes. • Grew the Software Development team from scratch to approximately 15 people.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Member of the Custom Systems Development solution team. • Developed multiple e-commerce applications for Fortune 500 clients in the high-tech, life sciences, and consumer products industries. • Participated in all aspects of the project life cycle, including: application architecture definition, solution definition, development, implementation, and training.