Eric Burgess has more than 15 years of financial management experience including all aspects of accounting, financial reporting, internal controls, budgeting and forecasting. Mr. Burgess has held senior management positions in various entities ranging from start-up privately held companies to large publicly traded companies. Mr. Burgess has been involved in securing financings for these entities ranging from small debt facilities to private and public offerings in excess of several hundred million dollars. Mr. Burgess has extensive mergers and acquisition experience on both the buy and sell sides. Mr. Burgess was Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Oakwood Homes which was a publicly traded company with revenues in excess of $1.5 billion. Subsequent to Oakwood he joined YOUcentric which was a CRM technology company.While at YOUcentric he helped close a $24 million equity round and subsequent sale of the Company to JDEdwards. Prior to his commercial industry experience, Mr. Burgess was with the international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers for seven years. Mr. Burgess is a Certified Public Accountant.He obtained a B.S. in Business Administration and a Masters of Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |