Executive summary
Mike is a former Chief Financial Officer, with over 16 years of diverse experience, including work in professional services and the private sector. With experience domestically and internationally, Mike has focused on providing sound financial leadership and guidance to enable entities to maximize shareholder value. Mike currently leads the growth and development of Advisory Capabilities within Grant Thornton’s Financial Management practice, with specific focus on Finance Transformation and Cost & Performance Improvement.
Experience
Prior to joining Grant Thornton, specific accomplishments included:
- Developed and deployed a project to transform a decentralized European finance workforce to a Center of Excellence
- Finalized and stabilized the move of manufacturing operations and equipment without impactful downtime or disruption
- Expanded margin and earnings through price maximization to combat rising commodity prices
- Reduced cash conversion cycle through innovative payable management, aggressive receivable management and disaggregated inventory analytics
- Implementation and refinement of various ERP and costing systems
- Created Sarbanes-Oxley compliance programs for newly formed, multi-national PE-backed carve-out
Since joining Grant Thornton, client work has focused on:
- Publically traded multinational company serving the industries of health information technologies and clinical research (Finance Transformation)
- Private equity backed multinational designer and manufacturer of vapor management systems, fuel delivery systems, thermal management systems and engineering services (Cost and Performance Management)
- Publically traded domestic beverage manufacturer and distributor (Accounting Advisory)
- Privately held domestic selling, logistics and data insights company supporting the wine and spirits industry (Finance Transformation)
- Publically traded multinational provider of energy, logistics, and technology solutions to aviation, marine, and land customers and suppliers (Financial Operations)
- Publicly traded management and information technology consulting firm (Finance Transformation)