Wayne Carlson Email & Phone Number

United States

Wayne is a Managing Director in the CFO Tech group with more than three decades of executive and entrepreneurial experience. His expertise is in long term strategic transformation and rapid EBITDA enhancement driven by the intersection of business process, cost accounting, financial reporting, and digital and IT enablement.

PRO Unlimited, Inc. is a pioneer and global leader of contingent workforce management solutions. For more information, visit: http://prounlimited.com/pro-company/Oversee the technological assets vital to delivering PRO Unlimited's operational excellence strategic pillar

Walnut Creek, Ca

Oversee the re-implementation and redesign of the ERP systems and ERP department at PRO Unlimited

A boutique operational improvement consultancy focused on lower middle market private equity portfolio companies and the value creation across the PE deal continuum of business, IT, and operations pre-acquisition due diligence, Day 1 / First 100 Planning, post-acquisition integration, and portfolio EBITDA and cash flow enhancement.Conducted over 50 private equity portfolio company engagements including as Interim CIO, as well as several private equity merger integrations and carve-outs involving end to end “full stand up”.Lead technical advisor for ERP selection, eCommerce and POS implementation for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Heinz Field for Steelers Merchandising.Expert Witness Testimony. Served as an information technology expert witness on behalf of law firm, Nixon Peabody, in its representation of a software firm engaged in a legal dispute.Recent post-merger integration for two private equity portfolio companies. On behalf of a $40 billion AUM global diversified asset management firm, formulated the ERP and IT roadmap for the merger of two consumer product companies.

Conducted over 20 technology assessments and Interim CIO engagements for private equity owned branded consumer product, retail, services, and manufacturing portfolio companies.For three brand consumer product portfolio companies of L Catterton (largest consumer product private equity firm in the U.S. and joint venture with the Chairman of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy), acted as the Interim CIO for over two years to integrate three disparate entities into a single market leader with a scalable operations, IT / ERP, and distribution platform

Holding company through which organically grown companies, (e.g., Foresight Systems, an ERP software firm with 240 customer installations) acquisitions, business and technology consulting services, and interim management services are delivered.As a middle schooler and teenager, programed, founded, and grew a services and manufacturing ERP software company focused on the “SMB” market (small and midsized businesses), which I grew and sold to an equity group in my early 20s.

Mba, International Finance

full merit assistantship

Bs, Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering Option)