Partner with founders to identify and secure growth capital and Board Members to support continued business growth and maturation. Secure first institutional capital and establish Board and Audit Committee. Drive two successful exits and support over 2x growth in 5 years. Oversee IT, Accounting, FP&A, HR. Create and overhaul reporting and processes for Board reporting, finance, accounting, and IT including controls, cybersecurity, cash management and first external audit.

Rebuild and stabilize Finance, Accounting, IT teams, functions and processes to support hypergrowth (100X). Restate prior period FS and complete first external audit. Line up bank financing. Upgrade IT infrastructure to improve HW and network performance.

Provide financial and strategic services to companies. Helped companies with finance, strategy, planning and analysis across a variety of industries including Cybersecurity and authentication, software, IoT, cleantech/energy, industrial chemicals/materials and media industries. Worked with founder and board for VC, family office and founder run and backed high growth ventures.

Brought in to overhaul finance and accounting functions and help grow privately held firm. Tom successfully brought new discipline to finance and accounting including implementing corporate governance, accounting policies, procedures, controls budgeting, costing, financial reporting, and corporate goal setting in a very short time. He oversaw replacement of a corrupted ERP system, restated prior financial statements and amended tax returns generated $1M in additional cashflow and secured growth financing. The business was successfully exited at a large premium to when he joined.

Led financial planning and analysis, sales finance and accounting, research and development (R&D) accounting, general and administrative (G&A) finance and accounting and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) functions for $1.3BN NYSE listed firm.

Selected first EY Fellow for new program where EY seconds executives at key clients. In addition to key account management, managed $1BN IT business unit review as part of Cisco Internal Control Services reporting to the Board and the CFO. Scope included accounting, IT security and controls, governance, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), business risk, operating effectiveness and efficiency.

Manage and oversee financial, accounting and IT Security for consulting as well as financial statement issuance and business reviews and non-traditional engagements for Big 4 CPA Accounting Audit practice. In addition to Corporate Finance key focus included ITSec, cybersecurity and privacy, and program management oversight and coaching. Clients included Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Marimba, Gilead Sciences, CV Therapeutics, Cybersource, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, Sanmina-SCI and Macromedia (Adobe Systems) among others.

Founding member/Director for EY Broker Dealer. Advise over 100 CEO and management teams on corporate strategy, direction and transaction alternatives including IPO, Mergers, alliances and partnerships and general investor relations. Advise and execute capital raise, sell and buy-side M&A transactions well into 9 figures.

Managed a broad variety of strategy engagements. Broad industry experience including technology, utilities, financial services, industrial and consumer products. Functional experience included strategy, supply chain management, finance, market research, organization design and structure, and mergers and acquisitions.

Senior Analyst/Team Leader for multi-location cross functional teams that partnered with operating management to drive cost and operational improvements. Efforts resulted in >$10M in annual cost reductions and $160M in annual revenue lift realized during tenure through teams personally managed.Competitor/Industry Analyst for Financial Planning & Analysis group. Responsible for competitor intelligence/performance analyses. Developed competitor benchmarking/value chain analysis encompassing supply, manufacturing, retail marketing and distribution activities.Associate Financial Analyst for Financial Planning & Analysis group. Primary financial responsibility for operations with over $500M in expense and $100M. Managed budget consolidation across $8BN business and multiple business units.

Helped professionalize finance and accounting functions for $100M privately held firm as Manager reporting to VP Finance and Controller. Responsibilities included monthly and annual budgeting and performance reporting and analysis as well as various financial, environmental, and marketing projects. Point person for M&A valuation and due diligence.