Houston, TX CFO

Mark is an experienced CFO known for his ability to integrate operating and financial information. Mark has worked successfully with entrepreneurs since 2002, serving as their CFO or in a C-level advisory role. With a passion for small and middle market businesses, he has efficiently partnered with owners to navigate through complex operational and financial challenges. He has focused owners in realizing the impact of business decisions and management team alignments, on a company's long-range goals. He has assisted owners in maximizing their company's enterprise value, making the company more attractive to financial institutions, investors, potential buyers, and employees. Mark never loses site of what every owner knows, that the employee is the most valuable asset.

Mark is adept at quickly identifying problems and taking decisive action. As a consulting CFO, Mark has assisted clients in debt restructuring, renegotiation of covenants, squeezing cash by reducing days sales outstanding and increasing inventory turns to better than industry standards, reducing expenses and risk by employing his extensive network of key service providers, implementing profit improvement plans which include performance based incentives for key employees, and preparing owners for potential buy/sell merger and acquisition activity. Mark provides a value added service of diligently evaluating the infrastructure which supports a business, and if necessary realigning systems and procedures.

Prior to joining B2B CFO^®, Mark was both the owner of his own firm and a partner in a national CFO professional services firm. His clients have consisted of closely held companies, owned by entrepreneurs or venture capital. These clients included a women owned, Inc 500 fastest growing private company which provided over 300 oil and gas consultants to major energy companies, and a start-up stored value card transaction processing venture capital backed company. He has also assisted an 87-year old third generation family-owned commercial tire dealer, a large homebuilder, and a mobile hydraulic crane and rigging company.

Mark gained valuable experience prior to 2002 working in a variety of senior financial executive positions. He served a multi-billion dollar refining and chemical processing company, an entrepreneur owned logistics, freight, and same-day delivery company, and a private equity owned domestic armored car company.

Mark earned a Bachelors of Business Administration in Accounting at the University of Georgia, and a Masters of Business Administration with concentration in Finance at the University of Houston. He has also passed the certified public accountancy examination.

Mark and his wife Sarah live with their two daughters in Bellaire. They are active members in their local church and he has previously served as Chairman of the Deacons, Chairman of the Property Committee, and teamed with his wife in providing leadership for the young professionals Sunday School Class. Sarah is a senior physician in a large nephrology practice and volunteers as a physician for Casa El Buen Samaritano. Their daughters attend a local college preparatory high school.

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