Featured Talent

Profile

Experienced finance and accounting professional with 20+ years of experience, leading large teams covering a broad range of experiences from commercial finance business lead, FP&A lead, technology finance, mergers and acquisitions, & investor relations. In addition, have served as both a board member and led business resource groups in a variety of ways, covering a variety of industries and experiences. Most recently, the U.S. country lead and founder of a resource group to higher differently abled talent in addition to leading the recruitment of finance and accounting talent as part of a world class organization.

Career Highlight 1: Launching the first ever combined seed and chemistry marketing program to dealers and retailers, totaling over $100M while gaining market share in corn, soy, cotton and chemistry to deliver over $500M in GP growth. Master Sales award (non finance).

Career Highlight 2: Full integration at two organizations of Hyperion-based financial reporting platforms, including integration of these systems across two mergers. Master of Finance award and Company spotlight awarded separately.

Career Highlight 3: Keynote speaker at DisabilityIn’s annual conference on neurodiversity and employing the differently abled. Topic presented was on identifying talented employees that possessed neurodivergency and/or hidden disabilities and placing them successfully.

Why Hire This Candidate (In Their Own Words): A passionate leader with a diverse background of experiences and a desire to cultivate talent. This Corporate Finance Leader is equally determined to deliver on results while developing the next set of finance and accounting leaders for his company.

Strengths: Business acumen, attention to detail, story telling, attention to detail, people leadership and development.

Hobbies & Personal Interests: Kids, their activities including sports, passionate about those differently abled, reading, running.

Education: BS Accounting, MAcc

Credentials: Expired CPA license, undergrad and masters in accounting

Industry Experience: Agriculture, Food Production, Life Sciences and Biotech, Manufacturing, Private Equity, Public Accounting, R&D

Company Fit: Large

Management Experience: 12 years of managing people. Have led an entire finance and sales organization (at peak 160 sales, marketing and finance).

Software Experience: Hyperion, OneStream, SAP, Tableau

Open To: Hybrid, In-office, Remote