Trenton Thornock

About Trenton Thornock

Trenton is a member of a 6th-generation ranching family, founded when Mary Mead Rex sent two sons to Utah from St. Louis, Missouri in 1869 with the first westbound trainload of cattle on the Union Pacific. Trenton carries on the family tradition of building and conserving capital by expanding to international markets and ensuring robust strategic planning processes, operations, capital investment programs and internal controls. Trenton hit two \"home runs\" as private equity portfolio company CFO with the sale of US Zinc in 2008 and Duratherm in 2011. Over the past two decades, he completed dozens of M&A transactions, including \"mom & pop\" retail stores, an industrial fabricator, and a magnetic ranging navigation technology suite for drilling.CFO | INTERIM VP ACCOUNTINGTrenton\'s capital creation and conservation capabilities were most prominently displayed at Scientific Drilling, where he expanded financial discipline and developed live broadcast internal financial reporting via monthly video calls for worldwide management as revenue, employee count and EBITDA more than doubled during the US land oil shale boom from 2011 to 2014. And at Orion Group Holdings (NYSE: ORN) in 2019, where he assisted a talented, new public company CFO to find agreement with the company\'s external auditors, improving timeliness and transparency in SEC filings to avert a threatening activist shareholder situation.BOARD CHAIR | INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR | AUDIT COMMITTEE CHAIR | SENIOR ADVISORTrenton recently served on the board of directors of Applied Technologies Associates, Scientific Drilling\'s R&D and technology manufacturing arm, and chaired the Audit Committee. He guided a matriarch to tax-efficiently fund her legacy project at Adelaida Cellars in Paso Robles, CA. As Board Chair, he built a productive relationship with the Founder/CEO of ACI Jet in San Luis Obispo, CA. The result was realization of founding shareholder value in a sale to a strategic buyer. As Audit Committee Chair, he led an internal investigation, resulting in en-masse resignation of all of Breitling Energy\'s Independent Directors. Breitling\'s CEO was sentenced to 15 years in a federal correctional institution and $92.4 million in restitution, and the CFO, General Counsel, COO and others were sanctioned/disgorged by the SEC. Breitling\'s previous auditor settled a negligence suit for $7 million. Trenton has proven himself to be a consistent champion of justice in situations of controversy throughout his c••••••••@gmail.com |+17•••••••44 |

Experience

1. Director Direct Investor

   Hyperfuels

   Jan 2017 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Specialty fuels and high-octane racing fuels with unique US EPA RFG compliant ethanol-free formulations.

Education

• University of Utah

  Master of Accounting, Accounting with an emphasis on Database Design, Encryption, and Decision Support Systems

  1997 — 1999

Skills

• Treasury
• Forecasting
• Managerial Finance
• Financial Risk
• Analysis
• Ipo
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Internal Audit
• Acquisitions
• Leadership
• Private Equity
• Portfolio Management
• Mergers
• Sec Filings
• Start-Ups
• Risk Management
• Variance Analysis
• Joint Ventures
• Us Gaap
• Strategic Financial Planning
• Business Strategy
• Process Improvement
• Cash Management
• Cost Accounting
• Business Valuation
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Consolidation
• Entrepreneurship
• Divestitures
• Executive Management
• Business Planning
• Project Planning
• Hostile Takeover Defense
• Financial Analysis
• Cash Flow
• Internal Controls
• Financial Reporting
• Due Diligence
• Acquisition Integration
• Erp