Retired senior executive seeking full-time, part-time, and interim work.

Continued success as a consultant and interim employee. Recent clients include Thrive International, OSMOSE, Babin Realty, and Hearing Hills Center.

Accomplished rate recovery of nuclear power plant construction program.

Successful with the Southern Company.

Completed acquisition of Southwestern Electricity, an English Regional Electric Company. Served as CFO, reduced headcount from 6000 to 4000, raised regulatory customer service rating from worst to first and achieved regulatory price increases in recognition of our success.

CFO Europe-Mirant (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Helped establish a European energy trading business,

evaluated several acquisitions, and completed purchase of Hyder, a utility holding company in South Wales. Guided CFO of Bewag (Berlin electric utility) on operational and financial initiatives. Improved earnings, customer satisfaction and employee morale.

Extensive board leadership with profit and not for profit organizations.

International experience in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Bahamas, China, and the Virgin Islands.

Management Strategy Finance Accounting

Culture Change Information Technology Cost Reduction Business Controls

Project and Risk Management Acquisitions and Sales

Created and taught “The Strategic CFO” at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business and the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business. The course offers real life experience and a high level of academic problems.

Established Georgia Atlas, a medical cannabis company during the 2020 and 2021 Covid pandemic. Served as CFO and led the effort to submit a several-hundred-page business plan and license application with the state of Georgia, finishing in the top eight of 70 entries.

Helped lead significant change management efforts and implementation of its enterprise resource programs (ERP) at Power Secure, a recently acquired operating subsidiary of Southern Company. While serving as Interim CFO, the company implemented its business plan, completed the ERP, and accomplished its business goals.

Served as Interim CEO of Bahamas Power and Light for Southern Company while negotiating the dissolution of a management agreement with the Bahamian government. Also, served as Interim CFO for several months.

Served as CFO of the largest subsidiary, Georgia Power Company, and the two biggest operating units, Generation and Transmission.

Led significant change management and cost reduction efforts. In 2008, helped lead a taskforce that reduced Southern Company’s operating costs by $300 million.

Directed implementation of enterprise resource program (ERP), standardizing practices and procedures across all Southern Company entities.

Successfully shuttered Energy Solutions business.

Consolidated and standardized Generation and Transmission business units.

Establish framework for Sarbanes–Oxley to ensure effective and efficient compliance with requirements.

Worked with the FASB to write an amendment to recognize appropriate derivative accounting for foreign exchange conversions and to accept regulatory accounting for phase-in of nuclear power plant cost.

Advised China Grid Corporation on international acquisitions.

Refinanced Southern Company long-term debt, saving millions of dollars.

Served as an interim member of the Atlanta Public Schools management team and consulted with two superintendents during the rebuild of systems, processes and culture following the revelation of a huge cheating scandal.

Instructor, Oglethorpe University – Auditing and Assurance Services.

MA – University of Missouri (Accounting) BS – University of Kentucky (Commerce) Stanford Executive Program

Metro Atlanta YMCA

Board of Directors for two branches

Metro Atlanta Board of Directors 2001-2020

Risk Committee Chairman and Properties Committee

Inducted into the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics Hall of Fame February 2008. Recognized by Georgia Society of CPAs as Outstanding Member of Industry for 2007.

Inducted into the American Institute of CPAs Hall of Fame for CPAs in Industry in 2008.

Awarded American Institute of CPAs Elijah Watts Self Certificate of Honorable Mention (Top 12 Performers out of 18,000 for National CPA Examination).

Awarded 2013 YMCA of Metro Atlanta Volunteer of the Year, recognizing 35 years of service to its multiple branches. Helped establish and chaired YES! Atlanta, an organization helping disadvantaged teenagers experience success.

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