Moira Hudak-Hall

Moira Hudak-Hall, MA, is a strategic Human Resources leader with more than 20 years of experience across the full spectrum of HR functions, partnering with organizations to build strong, people-centered workplaces that support growth, engagement, and operational excellence. She has worked across diverse industries, including venture-backed startups, academic medical centers, nonprofit organizations, and luxury consumer packaged goods (CPG), bringing a broad perspective to people strategy and organizational development.

Moira’s expertise includes strategic HR leadership, organizational design, talent development, employee relations, compliance and risk management, and HR technology implementation. She has a strong track record of advising executive leadership teams on complex workforce matters, guiding organizations through periods of growth, restructuring, and cultural transformation while maintaining focus on communication, transparency, and employee experience.

She holds a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management from Wilmington University and a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Temple University. Moira is also a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt and Certified Executive Coach, bringing both analytical rigor and a coaching mindset to leadership development.

Ingmar Berg

Ingmar Berg has spent his career leading finance through change, whether that’s a capital raise, an acquisition, or a multi-country transformation.

With more than 25 years of global finance leadership under his belt, Ingmar Berg brings a steady hand and sharp strategic mind to the most complex corners of growth-stage and investor-backed businesses. As a Partner and Fractional CFO in TechCXO’s Finance Practice, he works with companies navigating scale, transformation, and pivotal growth and capital decisions.

Ingmar has served as CFO for public, nonprofit, PE-backed, and family-owned organizations across digital health, SaaS, education, healthcare, and professional services. What sets him apart isn’t just the breadth of his industry experience, but his ability to instill calm financial order in fast-moving, multi-entity environments.

Most recently, Ingmar was CFO of Vertex Education, leading the financial operations of over 20 entities generating more than $380 million in revenue. He modernized financial processes, trimmed the month-end close to under one week, and led three acquisitions in one year. His capital markets work secured more than $170 million in public financing and improved the organization’s credit rating, generating long-term cost savings and institutional confidence.

Ingmar’s fractional CFO engagements read like a blueprint for growth-stage strategy. He’s worked with SaaS and digital health firms, including DayToDay Health and Discourse Analytics, to build forecasting models, refine operating discipline, and prepare for investor diligence. Across these engagements, he has supported more than $60 million in capital raises.

Earlier in his career, Ingmar led finance and operations in multinational settings at Laureate Education, ManpowerGroup, and Educatius International. He’s completed over 15 acquisitions globally and brings deep capability in integration, restructuring, and ERP implementation. He knows what it takes to scale across borders, because he’s done it from Europe to Asia to Latin America.

Ingmar holds an MSc in International Finance and Accounting from the London School of Economics and a BA in Finance and Accounting from the Gothenburg School of Economics. He is also an active angel investor with Boston Harbor Angels, a board member of the Council for Aid to Education, and a former board member of Resia Travel Group.

When he’s not tightening up a balance sheet or prepping a board deck, you’ll likely find him on a ski slope or a golf course.

Gina Manoli

Operating at the intersection of strategy and people, Gina Manoli brings clarity, momentum, and cultural alignment to organizations in motion. As a fractional and interim CHRO/CPO, she helps leadership teams navigate the people side of complexity with a seasoned perspective and strategic lens.

Gina specializes in guiding organizations through high-impact transitions, including mergers, expansions, restructurings, and complex business transformation. These aren’t static environments, but defining moments where people strategy must accelerate business outcomes.

More than an HR leader, Gina redefines the function as a strategic value driver – a force multiplier for performance, resilience, and long-term growth. Whether developing leadership teams, reshaping culture, or rebuilding organizations from the ground up, she works effectively across the enterprise to drive ongoing alignment while anchoring clients to their unique mission and vision.

With over two decades of leadership experience across life sciences, high tech, and global services, Gina has been a trusted advisor to CEOs, boards, and venture-backed firms. Her work is grounded in helping organizations scale with purpose, lead through uncertainty, and foster a positive employee experience.

Professional strengths include:

  • Fractional & Interim People Leadership: Guiding biotech and life sciences companies—including Akari Therapeutics, Abata Therapeutics, PharmaEssentia, and Enzyvant—through rapid growth, M&A, executive team alignment, and organizational transformation.
  • Enterprise Alignment: Aligning people and performance strategies across global enterprises such as Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Baxalta (acquired by Shire), Bruker, Merck Millipore, and PerkinElmer with deep expertise in strategic business partnering, leadership development, workforce planning, change management, and organizational effectiveness.
  • CEO & Board Advisory: Advising executives and boards on evolving culture, managing leadership transitions, strengthening governance, and advancing core capabilities.
  • Executive Coaching: Developing senior leaders to adopt a growth mindset, elevate presence, lead with resilience, and cultivate high-performing teams.

Gina holds a Master of Science in Human Resources Management from Lesley University, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Salem State University and has completed post-graduate coursework in Organizational Development at Suffolk University. She has earned certifications as a Global and Senior Professional in Human Resources and in leading complex organizational transitions.

Whether building teams from the ground up or transforming legacy structures, Gina helps companies and organizations grow with intention, clarity, and people-first performance.

Carolyn Fedigan

Carolyn Fedigan doesn’t just solve human capital challenges; she optimizes business performance through her clarity of focus and deep understanding of people.

At TechCXO, she serves as a fractional and interim CHRO and Human Capital Advisor, helping clients turn HR strategy into business results with integrity, speed and compassion.

With more than 30 years of leadership experience, including the last five advising private equity-backed and high-growth companies, Carolyn brings an insightful, people-first perspective to transformation, scale, and strategic inflection points.

Whether stepping in as a fractional CHRO or partnering directly with CEOs and boards, she knows how to align talent with trajectory. Her career spans regulated industries, hypergrowth startups, and global firms: completely different categories all dealing with the same challenges — complexity, change, and the need for resilient, high-performing teams.

“Carolyn’s thoughtful approach not only improved operational effectiveness but also enhanced overall team morale and equity… Her insights, clarity, and collaborative spirit were invaluable as we navigated complex decisions and charted our company’s future course.” — Jeff A. Mundt, MyForest Foods

Her track record includes:

  • Scaling Curaleaf’s people function from startup to $1.2B public company, leading HR strategy across M&A, talent acquisition, compensation, engagement, and compliance as the business entered new markets and doubled in size.
  • Reimagining MedMinder’s HR and business operations, assuming cross-functional leadership beyond HR — including Legal, Insurance, Facilities, and Project Management — during a period of executive transition and a full facility relocation.
  • Building talent systems and operational infrastructure for MyForest Foods, an innovative plant-based food company, including compensation strategy, hiring frameworks, and executive team development.
  • Leading HR for Audax Group, a $10B private equity firm, where she supported the firm’s rapid expansion across offices in Boston, New York, and California.
  • Advising firms such as Rail Modal Group, Ecovative Design and INSA through her independent consultancy, Fedigan Partners, helping assess talent, restructure organizations, and establish sustainable leadership models.

Carolyn’s consulting work is grounded in practical insight and strategic candor. She sees through noise, names what matters, and helps leaders act on it. She specializes in organizational design, leadership development, team assessment, and HR operations, including M&A integration, change management, and executive coaching.

From assessing whether the right people are in the right roles to advising on strategic organizational design or navigating a merger, Carolyn meets leadership teams where they are and helps them move forward with purpose.

She holds a Master of Education from Harvard University and a B.A. in Psychology from Drew University.

Norman Guadagno

Norman Guadagno, a Fractional Chief Marketing Officer in our Revenue Growth practice, didn’t set out to be a marketer; he set out to understand people. That early foundation in behavioral psychology still shapes his approach, but what defines his career is how he delivers results.

Over more than two decades, Norman has led marketing organizations through transformation, growth, and repositioning—always with a focus on measurable business impact. He understands what it takes to generate demand, sharpen positioning, and move markets, because he’s done it — again and again.

With senior leadership experience on both the client and agency sides, that dual-track background is why companies rely on him for uncommon insight into how to make marketing drive performance, pipeline, and real business outcomes, not just shape perceptions.

Some marketers optimize campaigns. Norman Guadagno rewires how companies think about growth.

Some standout examples:

  • Mimecast – Chief Marketing Officer
    Led global marketing and business development for this cybersecurity platform, generating more than $220 million in annual pipeline. Managed a team of 100+ marketers and 120 BDRs, redefined brand positioning, and played a key leadership role in multiple M&A transactions during a period of significant organizational change.
  • Acoustic – Chief Marketing Officer
    Took the reins post–IBM carve-out to build an entirely new marketing organization. Led brand development, go-to-market execution, and demand generation strategy, resulting in a sevenfold increase in unaided brand awareness and consistent lead flow exceeding 6,000 qualified leads per quarter.
  • Carbonite – Senior Vice President, Marketing
    Drove the company’s evolution from a consumer backup provider to a B2B data protection and cybersecurity leader. Built out the marketing organization, repositioned the brand for the enterprise market, and helped double revenue during a period of rapid channel expansion and product diversification.
  • Norbella – Chief Executive Officer
    Steered a full-service media agency through client growth and operational realignment. Oversaw strategy and execution for a portfolio of technology and healthcare brands, sharpening the agency’s market position and performance across digital and traditional channels.
  • Wire Stone – Senior Vice President, Marketing Strategy
    Held progressively senior roles in client strategy and marketing leadership, culminating in oversight of go-to-market planning and customer experience design for Fortune 500 clients. Delivered integrated brand and demand campaigns for Microsoft, Boeing, and other enterprise leaders, translating complex solutions into clear market stories.
  • Microsoft – Director of Marketing, Visual Studio Team System
    Directed product marketing for Microsoft’s developer tools business, aligning engineering and go-to-market strategies. Led the launch of Visual Studio Team System, built out product narratives, and engaged developer communities worldwide during a key growth phase.

Where strategy becomes momentum
Great marketing doesn’t just reflect a company’s strategy, but accelerates it. Norman works at that intersection, translating business priorities into go-to-market engines that scale, resonate, and perform. His foundation in psychology (MA from Rice University; BA, cum laude, from the University of Rochester) helps him lead with insight, communicate with precision, and deliver measurable results.

Host of The CMO Reset

Norman is the host of The CMO Reset, a podcast exploring how marketing leaders adapt, evolve, and drive growth in a rapidly changing business landscape. 
www.cmoreset.com

Pamela Banks

Pamela Banks is a financial executive with 25+ years of experience working with a wide range of companies, focusing on small, start-up organizations as they launch or hit a growth phase. In her role with TechCXO, she specializes in working with life science, high-tech/software, and healthcare companies, providing financial reporting, accounting and controls management, and operational expertise to leadership teams.

Accomplishments include implementing and migrating systems and procedures for accounting functions.  Projects include Implementing accounting, purchasing, and payment systems, migrations, process and controls improvements, along with accounts payable management, payroll processing, benefits management, monthly financial reporting, budgeting, and working with external auditors to complete annual audits and tax preparations.

Pam earned her MBA in Accounting and Entrepreneurship from Babson College and a BA in Finance and Business Management from Simmons University. Based in the Boston area, she has held numerous financial roles ranging from analyst to VP.  Pam’s ability to quickly assess and understand the visions of a small business leader, along with the attention to detail to accurately manage the accounting and finance tasks required on a day-to-day basis, has made her a successful, reliable, and trusted team member in the organizations she has worked with over the years.

Alan Gold

Alan Gold is a B2B go-to-market, strategy and marketing executive with an exceptional track record of delivering growth and profitability. He is engaged by C-suite and senior executives, investors and boards in early-stage, growth and established B2B companies to accelerate growth, improve market positioning and differentiation, create high-performing teams, and to position and to position them for favorable mergers or acquisitions.

Alan’s extensive experience is global, spanning the U.S. and Canada, Europe, and AsiaPac. He has been both a successful executive and trusted advisor with a wide range of venture-funded, private, and public companies with SaaS applications, healthcare, expense management, supply chain and logistics software, as well as AI-driven applications.

Throughout his distinguished corporate career, Alan has been deeply involved in bringing numerous leading-edge technologies to market, most of which are integral to our work and personal lives today. He has been a Strategic Advisor and Fractional Executive to leading companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Merck Pharmaceutical, Accur8 Software, and BestTransport (now Descartes Systems), where he successfully drove senior leadership-directed projects and helped align sales and marketing efforts, refine go-to-market strategies, and expand market opportunities. His strategic consulting expertise has been sought by various VC-funded AI software application providers, including Forma.ai and Insite AI.

His specific areas of expertise include:

– Sales-Marketing alignment
– Lead generation improvement
– New product/technology innovation
– Expanding go-to-market capabilities via direct sales, indirect channels, and partners
– Building new marketing and sales teams/optimizing existing team performance
– Leadership and coaching to up-level and improve rising executives
– Fund raising and strategic exits
– Change Management
– Go-to-market strategies and expanding market opportunities

Alan’s experience also includes leading SaaS software companies as their Chief Marketing Officer, including BestTransport (Descartes Systems Group), Kewill (e2open), Bamboo Rose, Avotus Corp., and Progress Software.

He received an MBA from Boston College and a BA from Brandeis University.

Liam Brenner

Liam Brenner is a TechCXO partner and C-Level executive with experience and focus on middle-market and early-stage companies in the dynamic state of rapid growth or financial distress. For more than 20 years, he has consistently delivered exceptional results as a CEO, CFO, and COO for both client companies and owned or started ventures. Liam’s skills involve all phases of corporate stewardship:

  • Cash management and forecasting
  • Financial modeling
  • Business development & strategic relationship management
  • Sale strategy creation and implementation
  • Full P&L leadership success
  • Full cycle M&A, including positioning and marketing, negotiation, and execution
  • Board-level strategic development and decision making

During his distinguished career, Liam has held the following leadership positions:

Advisor to the CEO, The Ventilator Project – This non-profit organization was created to develop FDA approved low-cost ventilators for middle-income countries specify in light of COVID. With over 200 unpaid volunteers and less than $150K in donations, ventilators near FDA approval under EUA guidelines. Post approval goals include finalizing distribution agreements with Mexico and Turkey, and funding a lean organization to support distribution.

Head of Finance | (Acting) Head of People, Haven – Founded by Amazon, Berkshire, and JP Morgan Chase, this healthcare venture’s goal is to improve the outcomes, and quality of experience and reduce the cost of health care for all employees of the three companies. Organization touched all aspects of the health care experience. Liam held full responsibility for planning, budgeting and securing funding from foundering organizations while reporting to the board. His responsibilities included negotiation of material contracts and working with clinical leads in execution. As Acting Head of People during the critical buildup of staff, he held responsibility for both HR and recruiting. He established structure and process for benefits & compensation, reviews and retention, and exceeded expectations for metrics on hiring, engagement, and retention.

He has also served as Founder and CEO of Ruckus Sports, an innovator in the mass participatory industry. Ruckus Challenge was awarded the Top Obstacle Race Under 10k. He also was Co-founder of Experience Sports, a Boston-based event production company founded to purchase distressed sporting events, including its flagship property, Denver Marathon, winning the honor of Runners World Magazine Top 10 marathons. He managed all areas of P&L and staff, including operations, marketing, and sales. Liam also was a Managing Member for Cypress Capital Partners, the largest niche buyer of consumer bankruptcies in the U.S. He was CFO of Altair Avionics, which was sold to United Technologies. He began his career with Matson, Driscoll & Damico as a staff accountant and Ernst & Young as a Senior Accountant for the Technology, Communications & Entertainment Group, which was focused on pre-IPO and venture-backed companies.

As a TechCXO partner, Liam’s assignments have included CFO of a telehealthcare company, which provided telepharmacy services primarily to Medicare populations. The firm had 10 million lives on its platform. He also served as CFO for Humatics, Inc., a Boston robotics-focused hardware/software start-up that recently closed a Series A funding round. He served as CEO for a SaaS-based health-tech software company and an advisor to Iraq Telecom Company. With the destruction of critical infrastructure by ISIS, he was engaged to develop a restructuring plan to stabilize the organization. In under twelve months, he dramatically improved margins, bottom line, and balance sheet liquidity while adding redundancy to key systems in a dynamic environment.

Liam has an MBA from Babson College‘s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business. He also received his BS in Accounting from Babson.

Dan Dunlop

Dan Dunlop is a healthcare executive with over 30 years of experience in clinical operations, strategy, product development, business growth, and finance. His career has two distinct phases: 18 years in clinical practice, where he founded and expanded evidence-based sports medicine clinics and led a multi-site, multispecialty practice to 3x growth, followed by a second phase dedicated to guiding early-stage healthcare technology companies in scaling, securing funding, and driving innovation.

For the past five years, Dan has been a Business Analyst in the Healthcare Practice at TechCXO, playing a key role in the Product and IT group. He provides fractional and on-demand executive leadership, helping growth-stage companies navigate challenges and implement strategic, actionable solutions.

Additionally, as fractional Chief of Staff at My Diabetes Tutor for the past two years, he has contributed to 5x growth and helped position the company for a Series A round.

Dan is deeply committed to fostering entrepreneurship and innovation. As lead organizer of 1 Million Cups, Greater Hartford, he has helped build a thriving community where entrepreneurs connect, collaborate, and gain valuable insights. He also served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Digital Health CT and a mentor for MassChallenge and the CharmHealth Innovation Challenge, supporting the next generation of healthcare innovators.
With a strong focus on behavioral health, telemedicine, and digital population health management, Dan is driven by a mission to leverage technology to enhance care delivery, address health inequities, and break down barriers to care for those who need it most.

He holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University at Albany and a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from New York Chiropractic College.

Ian Findlay

Ian Findlay is a Boston-based partner in TechCXO’s Product & Technology practice where he is focused on the technology needs of small to mid-sized businesses. Ian is frequently called on by clients to assist them as an interim and fractional CIO/Head of Corporate IT and strategic IT leader. Ian provides standardized, score-based IT assessments to gauge current IT health and he leads evaluations of IT systems, cost, risk, policies, security, data backups and disaster recovery. As a strategic CIO and technology leader, Ian conducts strategic planning, oversight and discrete IT implementation projects such as migration to cloud services for executive committees, investors, and management teams.

Ian frequently solves internal corporate IT department challenges, such as:

  • Perceived low-quality, costly, slow, insecure and/or malfunctioning systems
  • Frequent network and systems outages
  • Poor helpdesk response and perceived weaknesses in leadership, ability and overall resources.

Leadership positions Ian has held during his distinguished career, include:

Vice President of Customer Success, StratusPoint IT – Following the acquisition of Ian’s company, LightWire, in 2019, Ian has had the responsibility of managing the Customer Success Team for this national Managed Service Provider (MSP) firm and its clients. He managed the company’s team of vCIO staff members and a portfolio of clients (and their 1,500+ endpoints), and focusing on improving service desk delivery quality against KPI metrics, with the ultimate goal of improving customer experience and retention. He drove internal organic revenue growth by 40%, post-acquisition. He also develops and oversees internal initiatives to measure company performance using KPI metrics and the implementation of standardized platforms to evaluate relative health of client systems.

Founder & CEO, LightWire, Inc. – LightWire was a Managed Services Provider (MSP) that provided Outsourced IT services for companies ranging in size from 10 to 300+ employees. The firm provided a holistic technology service to its clients, including implementation, monitoring, and support of clients’ network systems and server infrastructure. The company built a loyal client base across a broad spectrum of industries, from finance to legal, construction to biotech and everything in between.

Chief Information Officer, MarketSpace / Monitor Group – Ian was tasked with building a world-class (but cost-effective) infrastructure from the ground up that could meet the needs of MarketSpace’s widespread consulting and media business across 5 offices (Boston, New York, Los Angeles, London, and Hong Kong).

In addition to his corporate leadership roles, Ian has held a number of senior IT roles, including positions at Razorfish, i-Cube, Conduit Communications, and Marketing Engineers. He graduated from Trinity College, double majoring in History and Computer Science.

 

Chris Thomajan

Chris Thomajan has been a CFO for over 30 years in a variety of industries, including: biotech, medtech, healthcare tech, software, digital media, Internet services and investment banking.

Chris was a founding partner of America’s Growth Capital, a boutique investment bank focused on emerging growth technology companies. He was the early-stage CFO/VP Operations for Asurion Corporation, which is a closely held, multi-billion-dollar private company. He was also the founding CFO for a pioneering Internet company, Delphi Internet Services, which was acquired by News Corporation in 1993.

Since joining TechCXO in 2007, Chris has worked with outstanding companies such as Relay Therapeutics (RLAY – IPO in 2020), Keros Therapeutics (KROS – IPO in 2020), Cyteir Therapeutics (CYT – IPO in 2021), Decibel Therapeutics (DBTX – IPO in 2021),  Mashable, Mascoma Corp., Adheron (acquired by Roche in 2015), Catabasis Pharmaceuticals (CATB – IPO in 2015), and Ektron (acquired by Accel/KKR in December 2014). Current clients include Elektrofi, Diceros Therapeutics, Medzown, Inc., QurAlis Corporation, and EnClear Therapies.

Chris has extensive experience in raising debt and equity. He has also been involved in numerous M&A transactions and has managed the operations of several start-up companies during rapid revenue growth. He received a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

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Gary Strickland

Gary Strickland is a seasoned financial executive focused on early-stage and venture-backed technology-related companies. Gary has significant experience in software, subscriber-based services, health IT, telecommunications, and professional services. Since joining TechCXO in 2007, Gary has been providing clients with strategic and operational financial management advisory services from capital formation to exit transactions as a part-time CFO in Boston.

After starting his career with Ernst & Young as an audit manager in the Entrepreneurial Services Group, his experiences have ranged from being the seventh employee of a start-up to taking an emerging service provider public on NASDAQ to playing a key financial role for an established NYSE technology company.

Prior to joining TechCXO, Gary was the CFO of SunGard BancWare, a $60M business unit of SunGard Data Systems, Inc., and a $4B global leader in software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education, and the public sector.

As CFO of several technology companies, Gary played an active leadership role in strategic, operational, and financial activities, raising over $150M of equity and debt financings, including taking ZipLink, a provider of wholesale Internet connectivity, public on NASDAQ in Q2 1999. Gary graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame in 1985 and received his CPA Certification in 1989.

Sanjay Pothen

Sanjay Pothen is an experienced finance and operations executive with deep experience in Media, Telecom, Software and Services companies ranging from pre-revenue to $100m.

Today, Sanjay serves as a strategic partner to CEOs, executive teams, and Boards as a fractional or interim CFO, CEO and COO. He specializes in helping to scale early-stage companies profitably. Additional areas of emphasis include strategy, KPI/growth metrics, budgeting/forecasting/cash management, debt & equity financing, as well as establishment and scaling of finance and operational processes.

Sanjay is a two-time entrepreneur as well as an experienced turnaround operator:

  • As CEO of Digilant ($100m adtech company) in the U.S., Sanjay formulated and implemented the strategic plan to re-position the company and return it to profitability.
  • As CEO of Phonevalley (Publicis Groupe’s mobile unit) in the U.S., Sanjay launched and built the company from the ground up to the country’s largest pure play mobile marketing agency.
  • As founding CEO of Pliq (a pioneering mobile video content startup), Sanjay wrote the business plan, raised venture capital funding, and took the company from 0 to 1 with it ultimately becoming the foundation for the McDonald’s Channel.

Earlier in his career, Sanjay spent a decade in management consulting (with firms like Arthur D. Little and IBM Services) advising telecommunications and media companies on strategy, operations, and IT issues. He began his career in audit and tax services at Ernst & Young.

Sanjay is a charter member of TiE, a global nonprofit organization focused on supporting entrepreneurs throughout the startup lifecycle. He also teaches entrepreneurship at Emerson College.

Sanjay received his B.S. at the University of California at Berkeley and his M.B.A. at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Maura McInerney

Maura is a senior financial executive with progressive experience in small and large technology companies within the private and public domain in the US, Europe and Japan.

She has held several interim and full time CFO positions for privately held companies across various industries, including BitSight Technologies, Groom Energy Consultants, RedPoint Global, Digital Lumens, and Brix Networks.

She has been responsible for BoD activities, Equity and Debt financings, Finance, Accounting, HR, Legal and Facilities. Maura specializes in directing cross-functional teams, acquisition integration and developing strategic partnerships.

Mike McEachern

Mike McEachern is an experienced CFO and financial leader with a proven record of partnering with executive teams to increase shareholder value from startup stage to scalable profitability.

As a strategic leader, he drives cross functional collaboration for startups to mid-market public and private companies.

Mike’s client base is focused primarily on the SaaS, e-commerce, hardware, software, Life Science , manufacturing and professional services industries.

As the founding CFO of Brainshark, Inc., a leading Sales training and coaching SaaS platform, he led the Company’s Finance and Administration teams through several growth and financing phases. He also held Senior Executive roles with several public companies including Elcom International, Howden Group PLC, and Trend –Lines Inc.

Mike has extensive experience in securing financing (debt, private and public equity), merger and acquisition transactions and scaling operations of growth stage companies.

As an interim and part-time CFO for early stage technology companies, he provides the following services:
• Cash flow planning and forecasting
• M&A / Exit planning and preparation
• Financial statement preparation and analysis
• Budgeting and long term financial planning and modeling
• Development of operating metrics and KPI’s
• Compensation planning

Mike received a BS in Accounting from Marquette University and an MBA from Babson College