Stephen Gleeson In 60 Seconds
Stephen Gleeson has extensive international Chief Financial Officer experience in both the U.S.A. and Indonesia. He successfully led the relocation of a company’s finance and administration functions from Australia to the U.S.A., during a period of 600% turnover growth and a 20% EBITDA. Additionally, Stephen served as CFO for an organization where the enterprise value increased by 200% within three years.
Specialist Skills
Budgeting & Forecasting
3 Way Budgets
Banking Relationship
Ability to form professional relationships with Bankers
Profit Improvement
Review all Inflows and Outflows to a view to increasing revenue and reducing overheads
Strategic Thinker
Sat on Boards and made Strategic inputs to future growth opportunities
Leadership
Managed teams including non-finance people
Track Record Highlights
- Hands on successfully supported an entrepreneur relocate his business from Australia to USA and was 2IC in the new business which grew by 600% in 4 years.
- CFO for a company whose enterprise value doubled in a 3 year timeframe after which I was offered an equity stake by the owners prior to a partial trade sale to a Private Equity firm
- Conducted Investor roadshow to the investment community as a precursor to raising funds on the Australian Stock Exchange to recapitalise a company
- Successfully conducted due diligence and transacted several acquisitions
- Obtained a $2.1Million Commercialisation Australia Grant for Innovation
- International experience in USA, China and Indonesia
- CFO/Company Secretary for an ASX listed company in which I was actively involved in strategic decision making at a Board level
Sector Experience
- Hospitality-Tourism; Tourism with mixture of Accommodation, Retail and Food & Beverage
- Services; Fractional CFO for SME's
- Agriculture-farming; Experience with South Sea Pearling and Essential Oil Crops
- Retail-consumer-products; High End Retail in USA
- Manufacturing-transport-logistics; Setup and managed a 4,000-pallet warehouse in FMCG