{"id":48,"date":"2020-02-22T18:52:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T18:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.b2bcfo.com\/mike-cerino\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2024-03-26T20:31:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T20:31:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.b2bcfo.com\/mike-cerino\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h1> <\/h1>\r\n<p>Mike has over 30 years of progressive financial and operational experience. 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We believe each owner is unique and important to our society. We improve their lives by understanding their goals and removing barriers that get in their way. We have proprietary tools and processes\" that enable us to do so...<\/p>\n<p>Mike is a strategic leader, tactical planner and conceptual thinker with superb analytic skills.  He has experienced proven success achieving aggressive financial and operating objectives with focus on companies in transition or in high growth mode.  Mike is broadly experienced in public and private sectors of multi-site healthcare, healthcare technology (SaaS), manufacturing, finance and accounting firms.  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