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Aubrey El
Senior Director
Aubrey has over 15 years of experience working with clients managing large-scale projects and acquisitions. He helps clients develop corporate strategy and drive operational enhancements. Working across industries in small to mid-sized companies, both public and nonprofit, Aubrey delivers corporate transformation and improves financial management. His experience in accounting and mergers and acquisition advisory services makes him a resource for his clients. Throughout his career, Aubrey has consulted with a… -
Tammie Hayden
Senior Consultant, Executive Search & Recruiting
Tammie brings more than 16 years of recruiting experience with small organizations and Fortune 500 companies. She utilizes Fahrenheit’s customized recruiting approach to find the best fit for candidates and companies by understanding a client’s business, industry, and culture and sourcing open positions within an established network of qualified candidates. These strong relationships allow Tammie to identify top candidates and make the perfect match for long term success. Throughout her… -
Sarah Gobble
Managing Director
Sarah specializes in executive search and has experience managing human resources and staffing functions for large and small companies across multiple industries including e-commerce, retail, manufacturing, investment banking, nonprofit, and healthcare. She partners with clients to provide strategic advising and support for recruiting and hiring needs ranging from C-Suite level searches to recruiting process improvement and strategic sourcing initiatives. Fahrenheit’s customized recruiting approach allows her to find the best fit… -
Russ Gambrel
Managing Director
Russ is a CPA with over 22 distinguished years of accounting, auditing and information systems experience. He has spent the last ten years working with a who’s-who list of Virginia-based start-ups and large companies consulting extensively as both a fractional CFO and Controller. Prior to moving to Virginia, Russ tracked countless miles from his start in Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C. leading both small and large companies in their Sarbanes-Oxley… -
Rob Imhof
Managing Director, Transactions & Private Equity Practice Leader
As the head of Fahrenheit's practice for private equity and transaction services, Rob endeavors to offer clients customized solutions to confront their challenges effectively. He is a demonstrated leader with a strong track record in assembling and guiding finance teams, securing debt and equity capital, and facilitating the integration of new companies into the portfolio. Rob also possesses expertise in handling distressed debt, restructurings, and turnarounds for small to middle-market… -
Rachel Lutowsky
Managing Director
Rachel is responsible for leading the firm’s leadership coaching practice. The practice’s talented team of certified coaches support businesses of all sizes across every industry. Based in Phoenix, Rachel also oversees growth of the firm’s other service lines there, including Business Advisory, Finance & Accounting, Human Capital, Sales Transformation, and Executive Search & Recruiting. As a certified leadership coach, with nearly 30 years of experience, Rachel works with individuals and… -
Mike Moore
Managing Director
Mike is experienced in creating new processes and controls to ensure audit readiness and has led systems conversions for several clients. Relying on his strong management and analytical skills, Mike has served as fractional CFO and interim controller for several foundations. He has also guided several corporate clients through implementation of GAAP standards including the new revenue recognition and lease guidance. Mike is skilled at tailoring his broad expertise to… -
Mike Escobar
Managing Director
Mike offers clients more than 20 years of experience, unique perspectives to approaching challenges, and expertise across a wide range of industries including insurance, transportation, real estate, healthcare, and distribution. Mike has supported multiple PE-backed portfolio companies as an interim CFO, where he provided strategic leadership, established controlled processes and procedures, managed banking relationship, and developed new financial reporting packages. He also helps high growth clients navigate change and integrate… -
Mike Duncan
Practice Director of Finance and Accounting
With a broad range of expertise in accounting, financial reporting, auditing, budgeting, process improvements, and controls for private and public companies, Mike helps clients assess and improve their finance and accounting functions. With nearly 20 years of experience as a CFO, controller, and senior consultant, Mike currently serves as the CFO for several high growth companies and provides litigation support and accounting-related consulting services. Mike began his career with a large… -
Merryman Putnam
Senior Director
Merryman partners with clients to provide compensation expertise in crafting total compensation packages designed to ensure companies are able to hire the right talent. For 20+ years she has worked with public, private, private equity, government, tribal, and nonprofit entities in a variety of industries including aerospace/engineering, banking/finance, healthcare (including FQHCs), insurance/workers’ compensation, manufacturing, technology/software asset management, transportation and utilities. Throughout Merryman’s career, she has managed compensation plans for executives… -
Megan Woodward
Practice Director, Executive Search & Recruiting
Megan leads the strategic recruitment of executive and professional level roles in accounting and finance, human resources, operations, and sales and business development. She is adept in managing the entire talent acquisition process from initial discussions identifying the role to marketing, sourcing, and screening candidates, scheduling interviews, and negotiating and closing the position. Fahrenheit’s unique recruiting approach allows her to customize each search based on an understanding of a client’s… -
Lud Kimbrough
Managing Director
Lud has provided financial, strategic, and executive management expertise to publicly held, private equity backed, and startup companies. He is adept at balancing human capital, strategy and analytics, and shareholder and lender interests by serving as a leader and advisor to dozens of middle market companies during periods of turbulence, turnaround, and dramatic growth. With more than 35 years of entrepreneurial and consulting experience, Lud has built strong teams by…