How CFOs are Driving Growth | Chicago | April 17, 2012

John has been CFO at four technology companies, a finance executive at Cardinal Health, and in multiple roles at AlliedSignal and Cisco Systems. John has raised over $100M in equity capital and debt and has played central roles in numerous buy and sell-side transactions for both public and private companies. As COO at two companies, John also ran Engineering, Manufacturing and Customer Service operations. He has also founded, invested in and been a board member or advisor of a number of companies. John has a B.A. in Economics from Connecticut College and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Tom is responsible for creating the finance, reporting and planning functions and revamping the company’s financial systems over the past 4 years, including the implementation of Host Analytics. Before Acciona Tom worked at U.S. Cellular as Manager Strategic Finance and was in charge of the acquisition of over $1 billion in new wireless assets. During his 11 year tenure at the company, revenues grew from $750 million to over $6 billion. He began his career in audit at Arthur Andersen. Tom graduated with a B.S. in accounting from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Tom lives in the Chicago area with his wife and daughter.

Patrick is responsible for all upper Midwest Sales at Host Analytics. Patrick brings over 18 years experience in the technology industry. Most recently he served at IBM running sales in the Chicago region, covering the Financial Performance Management including Business Analytics and Predictive Analytics. Prior to that, Patrick drove sales at several high growth technology companies including Siebel, Sybase, and Cognos. Patrick graduated from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology where he earned a degree in Electrical Engineering and Economics.

Host Analytics offers the only full SaaS Corporate Performance Management (CPM) suite which helps CFO’s drive fact based decision making throughout the organization and put rigor into financial processes. Host Analytics' on-demand CPM solution helps executives see the full implications of decisions—both risk and reward. Finance departments using Host Analytics enjoy lower headcount costs, streamlined budgeting, planning, scenario analysis, financial reporting and consolidation processes. Unlike traditional in-house solutions that require a large capital investment up front and specialized personnel to support them, Host Analytics customers get started by paying an annual subscription fee that includes all maintenance & support. The result is vastly improved decision making and faster returns on their CPM investment.