Appointed Chief Financial Officer in 2006, Ken brings 20 plus years of experience across finance, marketing and strategic roles to T3. His background spans positions with large, billion dollar corporations, mid-range companies and start-up ventures in technology, manufacturing, distribution, retail and service delivery organizations. Ken began his career with Unisys Corporation moving through a variety of key corporate development roles over a ten-year period. While at LensCrafters, Ken developed the company’s financial analysis department. There, he successfully championed the integration of financial thinking into new product, marketing and operating programs applying key metric measures as benchmarks for success. In 2000, Ken joined WorkNet Communications as Director of Finance where he took on responsibility for presenting the company’s financial story to the investment community. Later, as Chief Financial Officer with a $40 million privately held home furnishings retailer, Ken automated accounting processes and implemented internal controls thereby reducing the accounting close cycle by 60% while recovering substantial vendor overpayments and eliminating out-of-balance positions.
Ken is a staunch advocate of the importance of financial modeling and key metric measurement to the growth and development of the company regardless of size. In addition to his daily responsibilities, Ken applies that commitment in the academic world as a sought after and frequent guest lecturer on the subject at various colleges in the St. Louis area including the MBA program at Washington University.
Ken holds MBA and undergraduate degrees in business earned from the Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business in Pittsburgh, PA. |