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

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