Prior to The Siegfried Group, LLP, Joe was with Info Systems, Inc. as its Chief Financial Officer. At Info Systems, Inc Joe was directly responsible for providing strategic financial direction to the company during a period of rapid and significant growth. He oversaw the financial reporting and planning, corporate tax, audit, warehousing, purchasing, employee benefits administration and treasury functions. In addition, to this, Joe also spearheaded a 35 employee application development practice in less than 12 months.
Prior to Info Systems, Inc, Joe held various positions such as the Director of Finance, Site Controller and Internal Audit Interim Director for ICI America’s/Zeneca. As the Finance Director, Joe was responsible for a $125 Million acrylics business which was acquired from The DuPont Corporation. As a key member of the senior management team, he was responsible for driving the strategic direction of the business in a unique scenario of being in a held separate status while awaiting FTC approval for the acquisition.
As the site controller, Joe was responsible for directing all financial, product costing, site purchasing and IT activities at the Atlas Point Plant, which is a $100 Million Surfactant and Polyol manufacturing and research facility in New Castle, Delaware.
As the Internal Audit- Interim Director, Joe directed a 20-person internal audit department providing financial and operational audit support to ICI/Zeneca America’s operation covering a revenue base of $4 Billion.
Prior to ICI America’s/Zeneca, Joe was the internal audit manager & Financial Analyst with ARAMARK, a $ 4 billion food services company. He was responsible for the audit function of the $1 Billion food services division providing financial, operational, fraud and systems audits and reviews. He was instrumental in developing and implementing a formalized risk analysis program which was used as the tool for audit selection process.
Joe started his career with RAINER & COMPANY as a staff auditor where he was involved in numerous audits, reviews, compilations, individual and corporation tax planning assignments.
Joe is a CPA licensed in Pennsylvania as well as an MBA from St. Joseph’s University. He also received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Drexel University. He is also a member of various professional organizations like the Financial Executives International where he is the Area Vice President, Institute of Management Accountants where he is a Regional director, New Castle Chamber of Commerce where he is currently a Board member (was Chairman in 2000), Arthritis foundation-DE, where he was the past Treasurer. Joe is married and has 2 children and his hobbies include reading, golf & exercise. |