Bio
As a proven financial leader with solid and progressive experience in all facets of corporate financial management in multi-national public and private companies across financial insurance and enterprise technology my passion is optimizing technology companies for growth capital raising and MA. Focusing on enhancing execution to enable scale my 25-year career growing SaaS companies includes leadership roles across the globe driving 20 billion financial system design and implementation corporate compliance capital markets mergers and acquisition processes due diligence and post-acquisition integration. I joined SaaS software startup Zenefits as CFO to be part of the leadership team driving their complete transformation and turnaround. Responsible for all of Zenefits financial and accounting operations I lead all long-term strategic business and financial planning activities. Before joining Zenefits I served as CFO of CoreHR a cloud-based HCM and payroll software company based in Europe. Previously I was CFO at Torrent Technologies which transformed the way carriers and lending institutions participate in the flood insurance market. I successfully managed a multi-party acquisition by a Fortune 500 multinational corporation including all due diligence negotiation and purchase agreements as well as post-merger operational and financial integration. I held several roles during my twelve years as an executive at Microsoft including Division Controller where I had responsibility for corporate long-term planning. Other career experience includes Deutsche Bank Capital Markets where I was responsible for risk management and trading in convertible bonds and equity market derivatives and finance and leadership roles at Vertafore and Shato Holdings Ltd. I hold a BA in Accounting and Economics from the University of Washington and an MBA from Columbia University.