Emmett Moore

About Emmett Moore

Executive experienced at guiding finance and operations teams through chaos. Expert at building accurate financial forecasts in rapidly changing situations and in using them to finance and guide companies during high growth, transitions and turnarounds. Over the past 30 years, he has been the financial executive responsible for executing two IPO\'s, raising over $2 billion in debt and equity financing, and managing extensive buy and sell-side M&A activity. He has deep tactical and strategic management experience in accounting, software development, cyber security, operations, HR, finance, government contracting, pricing, investor relations, sales support, business development and treasury in high growth private and public companies.Specialties: • Forecasting and teaching forecasting• Equity & Debt capital Raises • Process Automation & Software Development• Robotic Process Automation (RPA)• Cash Management • Investor & Bank Relations • Mergers & Acquisitions - due diligence and integration• Building and managing accounting and finance teams• Business Plan Development• Financial Strategy• Budgeting • Government Contracting• High-growth Management • Restructuring & Turnaround• Managing and building accounting, treasury, contracts, pricing, investor relations and finance teams

Experience

1. Founder and CEO

   Practical Growth Advisors

   Jan 2018 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

   Practical Growth Advisors (\"PGA\") provides strategic advisory and forecasting services to privately held companies going through transition and growth. Through PGA\'s customized financial and operating forecast platform (\"InSight™\"), we create a dynamic, data-driven roadmap for growth that quantifies and accelerates value creation. We teach accounting and finance teams how to use InSight™ to re-forecast monthly. This enables companies to stay on course and develop a culture of accountability. All of our consulting services center around quantifying and eliminating our clients\' financial, operational and sales barriers to growth. PGA serves private companies up to $250MM of revenue and provides customized forecasting software, data analytics, software application development, RPA and capital advisory services.

Education

• Dartmouth College

  BA, Computer Science, Economics & Spanish

  1984 — 1988

• New York University

  MBA and MA, International Finance and Accounting

  1988 — 1992