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Kristen Metcalf
Director
Kristen is a seasoned finance and accounting professional with a background in federal government, manufacturing, and service industries. Specializing in financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cost accounting, and process improvement, Kristen has a proven track record of driving financial excellence and delivering meaningful results. Kristen began her career in government contracting, followed by accounting and financial services at small to mid-sized companies. She has experience in creating accounting controls, improving month-end… -
Chris Thurston
Managing Director
Chris brings over 25 years of experience as a brand, marketing, and business strategist for national and international consumer and business-to-business companies. Chris currently serves clients as a fractional CMO, a brand and marketing strategist, and as a project lead on marketing initiatives. He focuses on uncovering the best and most appropriate marketing strategies to drive sales, marketing effectiveness, and ROI while optimizing resources, technologies, and teams to drive client… -
Leigh Archer
Director
Leigh is a strategic human resource professional focused on connecting culture and employee engagement with practical policies and procedures. With over 16 years of HR and Employment law experience, Leigh has led and built HR departments for multiple state agencies and organizations as well as a 400+ person law firm. She provides thoughtful consultation in the areas of employee relations, employee investigations, classification and compensation, policy development and design, legal… -
Peter Grimm
Managing Director
Peter leverages his background in national security and experience as a strategy consultant and PE-backed CEO to help clients navigate rapidly changing environments. He is skilled in corporate strategy, market analysis, competitive intelligence, disruption planning, disruption preparedness, and organizational leadership. Following service in the US Navy and as a counterterrorism analyst at a US government agency, Peter spent 8 years in the Strategy Practice of Deloitte Consulting. Peter then served… -
Donna Labrador
Director
As an innovative accounting and finance professional, Donna has the unique ability to utilize over 20 years of experience for a variety of companies, both small and large. Because she can leverage her experience in areas such as accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, and process improvement, she can quickly identify areas in need of improvement and implement solutions. Through her succinct ability to assume responsibility, she provides stability and reliability for… -
Kathy Czerwonka
Managing Director
With experience in numerous industries and capacities, Kathy brings a broad perspective to project teams within finance and accounting. Her strengths are leadership, collaboration, and a positive outlook. As CFO for three companies, in manufacturing, healthcare, and services industries, and as a consultant, she has worked on ERP and other system implementations. In the first 10 years of her career, she worked on numerous international projects. Kathy has experience as… -
Sue Kay Lam-Kent
Senior Director
Sue Kay brings a wealth of over 30 years of corporate leadership experience to Fahrenheit Advisors. She has “hands-on” experience with a proven ability to form strong relationships, gaining trust of colleagues and clients at all levels. With a broad range of expertise in learning and development, instructional design and facilitation, organizational development, coaching, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Sue Kay helps clients achieve their business goals and objectives.… -
Mark Vita
Managing Director, Business Advisory and Finance & Accounting Practice Leader
Mark has significant Fortune 1000 and state government expertise solving intricate problems by integrating strategy, process, technology, and people. He has worked extensively with Finance organizations across a variety of industries, focusing on long-term value creation, operational efficiency, and technology enablement. Mark has a wide breadth of industry experience including Financial Services, Retail, State and Local Government, Manufacturing, Defense and Non-Profit. Mark’s career has spanned several leading management consulting firms always focused on delivering lasting unique client… -
Amy Richardson
Director
With 20+ years of experience as a Controller, Amy brings extensive accounting skills including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and general ledger to her clients. She has been responsible for financial reporting and supervised all accounting functions and supported the external audit function. Amy began her accounting career with a not-for-profit. While there, she performed accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll and grants accounting. She moved on to the nursing home… -
Megan Price
Director
Megan provides a broad range of experience in strategy development, operations project management, organizational behavior, corporate culture, stakeholder relations, process improvement, and change management. She encourages a collaborative process and tailors work to her individual client. Megan serves her clients by drawing on her multi-dimensional industry experience, which includes B2B, agriculture, legal services, state and federal government, infrastructure development, and electric utilities. She was a co-founder of an education support… -
Martha Youngblood
Director
Martha brings 20+ years of senior management skill leading human resources for organizations of all sizes. Her signature skills include strategic human resources planning, developing policies and procedures, designing performance and engagement strategies, and compensation. She is experienced in talent management including executive search and onboarding strategies. Her strong client communications skills allow her to utilize all of these in a fractional HR role or in a project capacity working… -
Gilbert Dawkins
Director
As a Director at Fahrenheit Advisors, Gilbert has a strong business acumen and fresh perspective clients will appreciate. With a diverse history in business plan preparation, auditing, internal controls, accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, and financial system upgrade implementation, Gilbert is equipped to come along side clients to improve processes and drive their business forward. Gilbert started his career in public accounting focusing on financial audit and risk assurance. He transitioned…