Greg Gittens
CFO & Operating Partner: scaling PE-backed & high-growth companies, expertise working with founders and investors in driving transformative initiatives, M&A, and equity raising. US/UK background & int’l experience.
- Role
- Chief Financial Officer at Modere
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Greg Gittens
I am a results oriented finance leader with multifaceted expertise in strategic planning, financial planning and analysis, investments, M&A and portfolio management. Direct teams to effectively achieve company goals. Proven history of driving results and impactful decision making. Approaches each new business challenge with a forward thinking outlook, viewing the long-term company goals and implementating processes to fulfill them. A respectful and fair leader who creates and sustains solid relationships with clients and co-workers.
Experience
Chief Financial Officer
Nov 2023 — Present · Provo, UT, US
Key partner to the CEO, investors, board, and lender company. Led company’s financial stewardship and its turnaround. Improved its financials through improved forecasting, working capital and liquidity management, Operating Expenses spending reductions, transformative initiatives, equity capital raising rounds, and finance team development.• Developed the company’s long range strategic financial plan and financial models for equity investments• Developed and led the Modere business transformative initiatives for: customers and topline sales growth, new products launch, manufacturing factories products cost improvements, new markets openings, new website and I/T infrastructure, inventory and working capital improvements, in partnership with the CEO, senior team, board and PE investors. • Partnered with CEO to hire, position a develop a new senior executive senior leadership team • Hired and developed a best-in-class finance team that led to improvements in the company’s financial results• Led the sale of the company global businesses and its assets per PE investors decision to exit business
Education
Columbia University
Bachelor of Arts
AMOS
Master of Business Administration
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Skills
- Marketing
- Sales
- Corporate Finance
- Investments
- Strategic Planning
- Microsoft Excel
- Merchandising
- Executive Management
- Inventory Management
- Business Planning
- Internal Controls
- Management
- Team Building
- Financial Reporting
- Retail
- Cash Management
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Consolidation
- Budgets
- Finance
- Process Improvement
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Strategic Financial Planning
- Variance Analysis
- Business Analysis
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Pricing
- Financial Analysis
- Human Resources
- Profit
- P&L Management
- Recruiting
- Restructuring
- Financial Modeling
- Income Statement
- Analytics
- Business Strategy
- Analysis
- Forecasting
- Managerial Finance
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