Brian Califano, CPA, MBA

Accounting & Finance
Written By Matt Fuller

Director

Brian Califano brings a wealth of experience to CFO Systems that includes co-founding a boutique fractional CFO firm based in New York, Florida, and London and participating in several hundred million dollars of capital raises, recapitalizations, and acquisitions/disposition activity. Prior to his role as managing partner of the fractional CFO firm, Brian spent over twenty years in senior financial positions at such well known organizations as The McGraw-Hill Companies (now McGraw-Hill Financial), Viacom, The National Hockey League, CA Technologies, and Kaplan where he led a live music entertainment company through a $260M Initial Public Offering on NASDAQ.

Brain has led large acquisitions, streamlined accounting and financial procedures for a $100M unit, and oversaw the global implementation of Sarbanes Oxley compliance and coordinated statutory audits for over 100 foreign subsidiaries.  Brian was also hired by CA Technologies to be the executive lead of a North American implementation of the SAP software package, a $100+ million project.  Brian also oversaw the public reporting of McGraw-Hill Financial and was the finance lead of a $60 million Oracle software implementation.

Brian is a Certified Public Accountant in New York State. He earned his MBA in Finance from the Stern School of Business at NYU and his BBA in Accounting from Hofstra University. He enjoys spending time with his wife of thirty years (and high school sweetheart) and two adult daughters, playing cards, reading Stephen King novels, and hoping the Mets win the World Series.

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CFO Systems LLC
Director

AcceleratingCFO LLC
Co-Founder and Managing Partner

SFX Entertainment
Vice President & Corporate Controller

Kaplan Test Prep Group
Vice President & Controller

Viacom International
Vice President & Assistant Controller

CA Technologies
Vice President - Finance

McGraw-Hill Financial
Vice President & Controller / Director of Financial Reporting

KPMG
Mergers & Acquisitions Manager

Matt Fuller

As a transformational leader I believe your organization's export is only as good as its import. In order to create a business that can grow, transform and win you must first focus internally since that is the very nature of transformation. Organizationally, in order to create any transformation, people must be at the core. It is imperative to focus our efforts on people first. I build teams and organizations full of highly authentic, empowered and engaged individual leaders. It is through this process that a business will most efficiently and effectively flourish. I also possess an extensive background in entrepreneurship, education and exceptional business acumen.

http://www.peoplecentrix.org
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