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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… -
Charlie Petrolia
Director
Charlie is an HR executive experienced at directing change management initiatives that achieve business goals, drive world-class employee experience, and maximize stakeholder value. By melding his Corporate HR leadership with field operations acumen, he inspires high-performing remote/onsite teams to deliver profitable revenue growth. Most recently, Charlie was a trusted advisor to the CHRO for a US-based holding company with wholesale distribution, manufacturing, and retail operations. Over the course of Charlie’s… -
Clay Cosby
Senior Director
Clay has over 20 years of experience managing a wide range of financial activities, including planning, analysis, forecasting, and reporting. He specializes in turning raw data into meaningful action to improve processes, fine tune strategies, and boost staff development. With expertise in operations, marketing, sales, and project management, Clay easily helps clients build strong cross-functional teams. His career has included financial oversight of numerous manufacturing, service, and sales operations. Clay… -
Bob Garren
Senior Director
As a former CHRO for a multi-site, multi-national organization with extensive breadth and depth of experience in all facets of human capital, Bob helps clients match human capital initiatives to the strategy of the organization. He is a team player with a strong foundation of integrity and a skill set centered on planning, organization, and communication. Bob began his career as a HR Generalist and Manager at both facility and… -
Catherine Lukaszewicz
Director
Catherine is a seasoned CFO and controller consultant with extensive strategic planning, process development and improvement, budgeting, financial reporting, compliance, and systems implementation expertise in privately held companies. Catherine’s experience spans across multiple industries working effectively with all organizational levels to achieve business goals. She began her career in manufacturing, where she spent more than 10 years at one company expanding her experience as the business grew from a local… -
William Hall
Managing Director
Will is a results-driven executive with 20+ years of progressive leadership experience in Business Development, Sales/Marketing, and Consulting. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on growth initiatives followed by tactical execution in early to mid-stage manufacturing companies. Will’s background includes managing categories with Big Box retailers, building international markets, launching new products and new brands as well as building sales processes and commercial teams. As a Managing Director at Fahrenheit, Will… -
Julie Edmonds
Senior Consultant
Julie brings over 25 years of comprehensive human resources leadership to The Fahrenheit Advisors. Former CHRO and talent succession lead, she has built Human Resources departments as a true strategic business partner, strengthened corporate-wide employee engagement, led Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and became a trusted advisor with a reputation for high personal integrity. Julie began her career with a large global healthcare solution company in a management trainee… -
Doug Moore
Managing Director
Doug has more than 20+ years of C Level retail and eCommerce experience with extensive experience delivering integrated strategies for operations, eCommerce, merchandising, organizational structure, acquisitions, raising capital and driving profits in the public and private sectors. He is a hands-on, high-energy executive that can drive change and results on an interim or permanent basis. His experience as a CEO in a PE or public company makes him highly flexible… -
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… -
Geri Simmons
Director
Geri Simmons has extensive experience in various industries as a human resources leader. She is bilingual (English and Spanish), a certified paralegal, a lead mediator in employment law cases, and a seasoned professional in compliance concerns, including employment law class actions. She has merger/acquisition experience with startups and turnarounds, leading change management, talent development, and executive coaching initiatives. Additionally, Geri has union and nonunion experience as a chief spokesperson. Geri also has… -
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… -
Jim Messer
Director
Jim is an accomplished professional with over 30 years of experience in accounting and financial analysis across various industries. He has excelled in inventory accounting, month-end closing processes, financial statement preparation and review, variance analysis, and budgeting. He has a well-established reputation for dependability and close attention to detail with a focus on process improvements. Jim began his career in public accounting before transitioning to roles in other industries including…