Doug Rainbolt
CMO and Partner at Chief Outsiders
Doug Rainbolt is a Partner and CMO with Chief Outsiders. He has occupied senior marketing leadership roles with a number of companies, including Tektronix, Brocade Communications, and SGI. His domain expertise in product management, product marketing is extensive. Doug served for 7 years in Finance at Tektronix before shifting to marketing. Prior to Tektronix Doug worked at Ernst and Whinney. Doug now serves small and medium sized companies that require the skills of a CMO -helping set the right strategy and train the resident staff - but don’t have a full time CMO need.
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Raghavendra Reddy
Co-Founder, bluecopa
An finance trained (Chartered Financial Analyst with post graduate degrees in Finance and Marketing) entrepreneur with a track record of launching successful startups. Currently a co-founder of bluecopa, a FinOps & Business Observability SaaS platform for high growth companies
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TJ Romano
Founding Partner at Kolitch Romano LLP
I am an intellectual property attorney. I represent a varied group of domestic and international clients on patent, trademark, technological trade secret and copyright matters. I’ve also spent time working in Europe to gain a better understanding of European intellectual property laws and business marketing.
Before I entered into the legal industry, I worked in strategy and consulting for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical-device industries. This experience helps me offer my clients a holistic perspective on their business objectives.
I am a regular presenter at the Oregon State Bar. Past subjects have included “International Trademark Protection using the Madrid Protocol”, “Fundamentals of Intellectual Property Law” and “Patent Law Updates on the Invalidity and Inequitable Conduct Standards.”
I’m also known as T.J. Romano and Thomas Romano.
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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.
