Randy is a senior financial professional with more than 28 years of extensive experience working with both public and private companies. He started his professional career at Coopers & Lybrand/PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) where he spent 14 years, initially working with Nonprofit and Native American owned organizations, and later with Software and Internet companies. While at PwC, he was involved in more than 10 initial and follow-on public offerings, financial reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), provided buy-side consulting and due diligence on mergers and acquisitions, and became one of PwC’s leading experts on Software Revenue Recognition under SOP 97-2.
Subsequent to his tenure at PwC, Randy was the Director of Finance at a $500 Million international public company, Chief Financial Officer of an Internet Startup Company, and most recently, as the Chief Financial Officer of Ascentium Corporation, a technology and marketing consulting firm. Randy joined Ascentium shortly after it was founded in 2001 and was instrumental in helping it to grow to an annual revenue run rate of $80 Million with offices in seven cities, including London. He was responsible for all finance, accounting, human resources, and facilities. He successfully negotiated and executed operating lines of credit with their bank in excess of $15 Million, negotiated and executed more than 20 lease agreements for more than 120,000 square feet of office space, and negotiated and performed the due diligence on 13 acquisitions of other consulting firms.
Most recently, Randy founded Abacube Accounting and Consulting Services. This firm was founded to work closely with, and provide services to technology startups in the Puget Sound Region.
Randy has BS degree in accounting from Central Washington University and has been a CPA since 1987. He is on the Board of Directors of Rosetta Solutions and the Greater Seattle USBC Youth Bowling Association. He is also on the board of advisors for ITM solutions.