Steve Rosvold
Founder and Chief Learning Officer at CFO.University
Innovative and responsible financial leadership is critical to any successful business. Whether the goal is to grow exponentially or achieve stable profitability, this core function needs to be handled with intelligence, skill, and unwavering commitment. Steve has honed his ability to drive change, improve profitability, and ensure long-term financial health for businesses.
He founded CFO.University in 2017 to deliver practical, convenient and performance enhancing professional development opportunities to CFOs and their direct reports after running KRM Business Solutions from 2004-2016. KRM was built to help Pacific Northwest business leaders to develop the knowledge, processes, systems, and tools they need for success.
Steve began his professional career with Cargill and moved into leadership roles, including the Senior Financial Officer of Cargill’s Global Energy business. In 1999 he became the Chief Financial Officer of ConAgra Malt, that was the global leader in the barley malting industry.
An Augsburg University, Minneapolis, graduate, Steve was awarded a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He is active in the community, as Executive Director of the Southwest Washington Executive Manufacturer’s Forum and Tandem Ride Coordinator for the Washington State School for the Blind.
Steve and his wife Pat live in Vancouver, Washington. They have 3 children and 4 grandchildren (as of the latest census).
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Lance Rubin
CEO and Founder at Model Citizn
Lance and Model Citizn help businesses solve some of their most complex problems by forecasting cash flow, changes to sales credit terms, expense management, property development, capital raising and valuations to name a few.
They help businesses and finance professionals make relevant, informed and purposeful decisions with insight.
Lance has assisted diverse businesses which want help in forecasting cash burn rate, break even point, business valuation, debt refinancing and capital raising as part of the consulting and advisory services we offer.
With over 20+ years of financials services experience Lance has developed strong BI capabilities across products and markets and reporting at board level coupled with strong technical accounting skills.
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Olga Rudakova, FCCA
Finance professional | Data skills trainer | Dashboard design consultant | ex-Mars, ex-Tesco
Olga is a finance professional and data skills trainer. Olga is passionate about data insights and data visualization. With over a decade of corporate career in FMCG and Retail she was supporting various business units towards data-driven decision making. At the Business Intelligence startup Olga has learned, what the biggest obstacles on the way to insights-driven organization are.
Currently, as a full-time trainer and consultant she helps her clients bridge the gap between data and actionable insights.
Through her workshops, Olga can help your team with a shift of their collective mindset to embrace data!
From just showing the data to visual storytelling! (workshop “Storytelling with Business Data”)
From an intuition-based to data-driven decision making (workshop “Data-driven Decision Making)
From static reports to dynamic actionable dashboards (workshop “Storytelling in Dashboards”)
These and more workshop descriptions at olgarudakova.com
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Dave Sackett
Chief Solutions Architect
Dave has held CFO and CIO roles with private companies where he actively managed the Finance, Accounting and IT functions as a lean operation. He currently is the Head of Operations - Boston Office at Pixelette Technologies . His main leadership goal is to help clients improve profitability by carefully selecting investments in technology. He delegates tasks and coaches staff to become a high performance, problem solving team. He takes a serious approach toward continuous professional development.
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David Safeer
David Safeer is a globally recognized expert in cash flow optimization and the founder of David Safeer International, which educates and advises accountants and CFOs on cash flow and profit maximization strategies for their clients. His work has impacted hundreds of businesses with revenues from $1 million - $20 million in 40 countries.
As vice president and general manager of Kodak Latin America, he transformed his division from years of loss to profitability in 18 months. As president of Iomega Latin America, Inc., David grew revenue by 404% in 5 years and profits by 181%. David has a master’s degree in International Management and 20 years of working with Fortune 100 companies such as Morgan Stanley and Dell.
David teaches accountants how to grow their revenue with cash flow advisory services through his cash flow advisory certification program and mastermind groups. He has been quoted in hundreds of news stories, spoken to audiences internationally, and appeared on dozens of podcasts and various television outlets.
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Fateh Sahel
Lecturer & financial consultant
Fateh Sahel - Fateh Sahel is a finance and management accounting researcher. He obtained his accreditation in statutory audit in 2009, and his doctorate in management of organizations with honors from the University of Boumerdes in 2016, and in 2017 he obtained a Qualified Learning Facilitator Certificate from l’Ecole Hôtelière de Lausann Hospitality Management School.
Fateh always had two hats; an academician and a professional, he worked as an accountant, auditor and head of mission in a private Algerian audit and consulting office, and he held positions of responsibility in a big hotel investment company (SIH) as head of the internal audit department in 2013, and Finance and Accounting Director of one of its subsidiaries in 2014.
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Jeff Sakamoto
Process Improvement Consultant at Business Rehab/Southwest Business Advancement LLC
Jeff has over 30 years of experience in regional/national/international business with his primary focus being accounting process efficiency, operational analysis/improvement and IT integration. The businesses he’s served with range from small not-for-profit organizations to NASDAQ-listed multi-national organizations with the past 10 years of work performed at the senior management level. Over the past 10 years he’s been working with companies that need a senior financial professional who can understand operations and his diverse background has allowed him to be extremely effective in the role. These companies range from startup to turn-around with emphasis on rapid improvement of the analytics needed to improve bottom-line performance.
