Featured Talent

Profile

Experienced and motivated Finance Leader with broad exposure – Corporate FP&A, Manufacturing, Capital Planning, R&D, M&A, and Commercial. Successfully navigated 2 global world-class companies to steadily progress in successive, impactful leadership roles. His experience as the Vice-President and head of Finance for a $140m/year company added Risk Management, Treasury, and Tax oversight. Leverages his engineering education and problem-solving mindset to create streamlined and efficient financial and operational processes. This candidate is professional, strategic, disciplined, results oriented, high energy, and both technical and relationship focused. Seeking finance leadership roles with winning companies in the St. Louis area.

Why Hire This Candidate (In Their Own Words): “I am a hard-working self-starter with a positive attitude that brings leadership skills and attention to detail to the table.”

Strengths: (1) Results oriented, (2) Hard working self-starter, (3) logical thinker, (4) positive can-do attitude, and (5) cross-functional teamwork.

Career Highlight 1: Successfully completed over 30 separate M&A Technology agreements, including full acquisitions, minority equity purchases, and licensing agreements, which increased the R&D pipeline value by over $1 billion.

Career Highlight 2: Built the FP&A function from the bottom up for 2 companies establishing processes and formal management reporting where little existed.

Career Highlight 3: Leadership and People Management – Led the businesses’ Finance & Accounting team significantly reducing unwanted turnover and successfully passing 2 years of external audits with only 1 minor P&L adjustment.

Hobbies & Personal Interests: Spending time with family, playing golf, college sports fanatic (Roll Tide!), reading and gardening.

Education: BS Engineering, MBA

Industry Experience: Aerospace & Defense, Agriculture, Manufacturing

Company Fit: Versatile – experience in small/medium and large companies.

Management Experience: Over 20 years’ experience managing teams. Has managed a lot of smaller teams of about 5 and a global team of up to 50.

Systems Experience: Excel (advanced modeling), PowerPoint, Word, SAP, One Stream/Hyperion/Essbase.

Open To: Hybrid, In-office, Remote