Chris Whitfield

About Chris Whitfield

Experience. Experienced executive and senior manager in industry and in public…

Experience

1. Chief Financial Officer

   Mana Mother Administered Nutritive Aid

   Jun 2017 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   We call ourselves the MANA village, a community that also happens to be a company. We are a group of social entrepreneurs located in Georgia and North Carolina and our day job is developing and providing solutions to address severe cases of malnutrition in children. At MANA we make a ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) made of a fortified peanut paste that has been carefully formulated to provide a child’s basic nutritional needs. Roughly three servings of MANA a day for six weeks can save the life of child suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM). We are organizationally structured as a non-profit, but we run our company according to the same tried and true best-practice business principles that are the hallmark of great companies around the globe. We not only make a special fortified peanut butter, we also seek to spread awareness of SAM and the 20 million children it affects every year. Today, MANA Nutrition can produce as much as kg lbs) of MANA per day — enough to feed 1500 children suffering from SAM — and our partners distribute it to places like Kenya, Sudan, Rwanda, Chad, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burundi, North Korea and Guatemala. Much of our product ends up in a village setting, treating the world’s most fragile kids, most often by empowering their moms with simple healthy ready to eat food. From our village to theirs, we are proud partners with the brave and committed mothers of the world.

Education

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Young Executives Institute

  1992 — 1993

• Florida State University

  B.S., Accounting

  1976 — 1979

Skills

• Private Equity
• Strategic Planning
• Financial Planning
• Strategic Financial Planning
• Contract Negotiation
• Financial Reporting
• Management Consulting
• Executive Management
• Sec
• Business Planning
• Finance
• Ipo
• Treasury
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Human Resources
• Leadership
• Acquisition Integration
• Analysis
• Sarbanes-Oxley
• Auditing
• Managerial Finance
• Due Diligence
• Management
• Team Building
• Gaap
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Accounting
• Internal Controls