Strategic CFO™ Team

Strategic CFO™ always provides service with quality in mind. Likewise, Strategic CFO™ seeks quality talent. Meet the Strategic CFO™ team below and learn how Strategic CFO™ can meet your specific needs.

Dan Corredor

President of Strategic CFO™

CPA & Bilingual

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Cyndi Dinh

Managing Director at Strategic CFO™

MBA & Bilingual

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Marilynne Franks Bleeker

Director at Strategic CFO™

CPA

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Jim Hansen

Director at Strategic CFO™

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Stacy Walker

Director at Strategic CFO™

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Karen Reed

Director at Strategic CFO™

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David Nilsen

Director at Strategic CFO™

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Carol Manley

Accounting Manager at Strategic CFO™

MBA

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Jaime Bernal

Director at Strategic CFO™

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Amy Knight

Director at Strategic CFO™

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Reynaldo Llana

Accounting Manager at Strategic CFO™

MBA

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Oscar Pinotti

Director at Strategic CFO™

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Innocent Msemburi

Financial Analyst at Strategic CFO™

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Elizabeth Orms

Marketing Specialist at Strategic CFO™

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Special Pawjects Manager

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Jim Wilkinson

Founder

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Strategic CFO™ founder

Jim Wilkinson founded Strategic CFO™ in 1999 after identifying a gap in the marketplace for his skills and expertise. Over the last 18 years, Jim built up Strategic CFO™ to the successful company we know today. Strategic CFO™ team continue to building his legacy.

Read more about our founder, Jim Wilkinson, here.

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Dan Corredor

President at The Strategic CFO

[email protected]

o. (832) 710-3105

m. (713) 501-7481

Dan Corredor acquired The Strategic CFO in 2017, following the death of the Founder and former President, Jim Wilkinson. Dan knew Jim since the mid-1990s and followed the development and success of The Strategic CFO, LLC. Furthermore, with a similar background as Jim, it was obvious that Dan was the perfect fit for the firm as our leader.

With 30+ years of total experience, Dan’s expertise includes the following: mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, post closure business integration, operational and financial restructuring, accounting efficiencies, working capital and cash flow management. His experience also includes dealing with business owners and private equity groups. In addition, Dan has extensive international operational experience, which includes over 10 years working with companies in Latin America and consulting in Turkmenistan. Dan’s experience also includes working with lenders, bond holders and presenting to ratings agencies.

He has held multiple CFO positions and was promoted twice to President & CEO. In addition, Dan has sat on boards as an internal board member and external board member.

Prior to acquiring The Strategic CFO, Dan was consulting for five years. Before that he was President & CEO of a regulated water utility, which was a company that required operational and financial restructuring after experiencing a crisis. Prior to that Dan was promoted from CFO to President & CEO at a Japanese owned Petrochemical company. Dan’s Latin American experience includes both working as CFO for a large publicly traded water utility in Mexico for 4 years and 6 years with two large publicly traded oil and gas field service companies in financial executive roles.

Core Professional Competencies

Dan Corredor’s career has had many focuses, but his core professional competencies include the following:

Operations and Operational Restructuring as President & CEO
- Chapter 11
- Significant experience in M&A
- Managed numerous M&A transactions both in the US, Japan, and in Latin America for large public companies
- Managed complex relationships with boards, shareholders and management
- Crisis management
- Complex negotiations with lenders, bond holders and ratings agencies

Industries Served

While Dan Corredor has worked with clients in many different industries, the following industries are those that he’s spent the most time working in.

University of Houston B.S., Accounting

Certified Public Accountant
Bi-Lingual (English & Spanish)

Prior Experience

Opportune LLP (Director in the Restructuring Group)
Southwest Water Co. (JP Morgan portfolio company)
Chusei USA, Inc. (Private Japanese owned)
Azurix (Enron)
EVI Oil Tools (Weatherford)
Sperry Sun Drilling

Cyndi Dinh

Managing Director at The Strategic CFO

[email protected]

o. (832) 710-3105

m. (281) 685-3250

Cyndi Dinh has over 18 years of experience in many key Finance and Accounting positions. Prior to joining The Strategic CFO, Cyndi was the Controller for a publicly traded oil & gas service company for 6 years. In this role, Cyndi was responsible for month-end close, financial reporting, budget versus actual reporting, SOX compliance, internal/external processes and audit, payroll, training and developing team, tax reporting, software implementation, implementing process and procedures, among other ad-hoc projects.

Prior to this role as a Controller, Cyndi spent some time during her career as a Consultant. She worked for various clients providing outsource Controller and CFO services, assisting clients including business owners and private equity groups with mergers and acquisitions, working capital, business integration, accounting efficiencies, cash flow, trend analysis, financial reporting, due diligence, client prepared schedules required for audits, creating policies and procedures, budget reporting, inventory physical count for audit purposes, among other projects.

Further, Cyndi has approximately 6 years of public accounting experience of which some of it was in Manhattan, New York. Cyndi performed functions in audits, reviews, and compilations. She also provided various services for small to mid-size companies such as bookkeeping services, financial statement reporting, training personnel, accounting assistance on a turnaround management project, cash flow management, tax filing procedures for S-Corps, Trusts, & Individual returns, among other projects.

Core Professional Competencies

Cyndi Dinh’s career has had many focuses, but her core professional competencies include the following:

Industries Served

University of Houston Masters of Business Administration in Accounting Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance

Bi-Lingual (English & Vietnamese)

Prior Experience

KLX Energy Services
Global Stainless Supply, Inc.
Outsourced Financial Services
PKF of Texas, P.C.
ERE, LLC

Marilynne Franks Bleeker

Director at The Strategic CFO

[email protected]

o. (832) 710-3105

Marilynne Franks Bleeker has over 35 years of experience in the Accounting and Finance field. After a short stint with a national Accounting firm, she built and owned a private CPA practice for many years.

For the last 20 years, she has been involved with an e-commerce business that grew from a brick and mortar store to a subsidiary of an international public company. As the company grew, Marilynne’s roles ranged from independent accountant and CPA to Controller/Acting CFO (pre-acquisition) to Corporate Controller (post-acquisition). Her expertise includes financial reporting, internal controls, procedural automation, budget management and building and developing accounting teams. Marilynne’s experience has also included managing external annual audits and state sales tax audits and working with external professionals.

Marilynne Franks Bleeker leads and develops teams. She also delegates, trains, and delves into helping complete projects/tasks/financials on time and on budget. Furthermore, she has extensive work experience with internal divisions and external professionals. Her role is to support and develop teams, and drive engagement and interaction with other departments. Marilynne provides expertise in applicable standards and regulations, as well as internal processes and audits. In addition, she improves processes and provides resolutions to challenges that emerge in course of business.

Core Professional Competencies

Marilynne Franks Bleeker’s career has had many focuses, but her core professional competencies include the following:

Industries Served

Marilynne Franks Bleeker has spent the most time working in the following industries:

E-Commerce
Professional Sole Proprietors
Small Businesses

The University of Texas, Austin
B.B.A., 1980

Certified Public Accountant

Prior Experience

Global Custom Commerce (a Home Depot Co.), Houston, Texas – Corporate Controller
Global Custom Commerce dba blinds.com, Houston, Texas – Corporate Controller
Global Custom Commerce dba blinds.com, Houston, Texas – Part-Time Controller
Marilynne A. Franks, CPA, Houston, Texas – Public Accounting Practice – Owner
Deloitte, Audit Senior, Small Business Area, Houston, Texas

Jim Hansen

Director at The Strategic CFO

[email protected]

o. (832) 710-3105

m. (214) 796-7371

With over 40+ years of total experience, Jim Hansen has had progressive financial management responsibility – ultimately becoming a seasoned Chief Financial Office / Vice President of Finance. His expertise includes consolidations, strategic planning, budgeting, financial reporting, working capital, cash flow management, mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, and post closure business integration. His experience also includes working for international parent companies, family run businesses, and private equity groups. Jim’s international experience includes companies with operations in France, Germany, South Africa, Mexico, and China. Jim Hansen has worked with companies with multiple locations.

Jim Hansen is a hands-on, business focused, financial leader with strong interpersonal and leadership skills and the ability to maintain solid and trusting relationships across functional/organizational lines. Experience with multinational, customer driven corporations with rapid-growth. He has held multiple CFO positions in public and private companies.

Core Professional Competencies

Jim Hansen’s career has had many focuses, but his core professional competencies include the following:

Experience in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
Managed complex relationships with foreign management, local management, boards, and shareholders
Chapter 11
Operations management
Business restructuring
Cash management and working with lenders

Industries Served

Jim Hansen has a strong manufacturing background and has served in the following areas:

Industrial manufacturing
Chemicals manufacturing
Building products
Metal building manufacturing
Fiberglass manufacturing

Concordia University-Milwaukee Bachelors Degree in Accounting

Prior Experience

Associated Steel Group, LLC (Private Equity)
Gulf Chemical & Metallurgical Corporation (owned by Eramet a French company)
Saint Gobain Vetrotex America (French owned)
Security Technologies (Private Equity)
Southern Structures (family owned)
SKW/MBT Construction Chemicals (German Owned)
ChemRex, Inc. (owned by Rexnord, Inc.)

Reynaldo Llana

Manager at The Strategic CFO

[email protected]

(o.) 832-866-4246

(m.) (832) 873-1288

Reynaldo is a multi-faceted Accounting/Finance professional with more than ten years of professional experience from the Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Management & IT Consulting, Maritime & Energy Services and Electronics industries. Reynaldo’s current areas of concentration are Operational & Financial Accounting, Inter-company & GL Accounting, Project Accounting, and month-end financial close process.

Prior to migrating to the USA in 2004, Reynaldo started his career in the Philippines in the banking & financial industry at Bank of America Savings Bank. He started as branch banking Operations Supervisor, and was promoted to Marketing & Loans Officer. After completing his postgraduate education (MBA), Reynaldo joined Deloitte & Touche Philippines’ local partner, C.L. Manabat & Associates, as an Executive Assistant to the Managing Partner where his focus was the firm’s marketing activities in addition to leading efforts in drafting proposals for potential clients and conducting various industry research.

As a 1st generation immigrant in the USA, Reynaldo started his career in the Healthcare industry as an Office & Accounting Manager for Renal Solutions, Inc., a start-up company providing clinical and outsourced nephrology services to various Houston area hospitals.
Whilst at Enaxis Consulting LP (now part of Accenture), Reynaldo gained significant experience in Project Accounting; having dealt with the firm’s various Oil & Gas & Aviation clients that included among others, Chevron, Hess Corporation, Schlumberger, BHP Billiton, BP, National Oilwell Varco and United Airlines

Core Professional Competencies

Industries Served

Asian Institute of Management (Manila, Philippines) Master’s in Business Administration (MBA)
University of Santo Tomas (Manila, Philippines) Bachelor of Science in Commerce, major in Business Administration
- Bilingual in English & Tagalog (Filipino)

Prior Experience

Macrofab, Inc.
Braemar Technical Services (USA), Inc.
Enaxis Consulting LP, Part of Accenture
T-Rex Services
Renal Solutions, Inc.
Deloitte & Touche Philippines (C.L. Manabat & Co.)
Bank of America Philippines

Oscar Pinotti

Director at The Strategic CFO

[email protected]

Oscar Pinotti started his career in Cordoba Argentina as a chartered accountant working in a public accounting firm where he was introduced to a portfolio company; Weatherford International. Weatherford is a publicly traded company in oil and gas services, and at its peak was a $13 billion company. Oscar started his career at Weatherford 22 years ago and had progressive growth leading to senior roles internationally around the globe. His responsibilities included working with P&L operational leaders, SOX reporting, transforming supply chain and leading transformational changes as the leader of the Weatherford Service Center. Oscar’s direct responsibilities consisted of $3 billion in operational revenue.

Oscar joined SCFO Consulting LLC to lead some of the firm’s more complex and larger projects. He has successfully worked as a consultant with middle market companies and with court appointed Receivers resolving complex operational issues. Oscar brings the expertise of working in complex multi-billion-dollar organizations that have various fires burning at once. His patience and leadership to handle resolution in complex situations is a great asset to our firm.

Core Professional Competencies

Industries Served

Public Accounting
Manufacturing
Energy

Universidad Nacional de Cordoba – B.S. Accounting
Universidad Belgrano Bueons Aires – Masters Management
- Chartered Accountant
- Bilingual Spanish/English

Prior Experience

Weatherford Service Center – Sr. Director
Weatherford – V.P. Controller Westerm Hemisphere
Weatherford – Director Supply Chain Middle East and Africa
Weatherford – Regional Accounting Latin America
Oechsle & Co – Public Accounting

Innocent Msemburi

Financial Analyst

(m) (346) 308-0047

Innocent Msemburi is a self-motivated Financial and Accounting professional with broad experience in financial modeling, financial and accounting analysis as well as investment analysis. He is a dedicated and innovative individual who enjoys bringing solutions to challenges especially where there is need for analyzing/researching, reporting & forecasting data to support an entity’s business. Innocent employs robust Excel skills for financial modeling, data manipulation and data validation, variance analysis & financial performance analysis while utilizing GAAP to present best practices and changes that are at par with accounting and financial international standards.

Before acquiring a bachelor’s degree in finance & accounting, Innocent worked as a business consultant at Smit and Cole Consultancy in South Africa from 2004 to 2007. His experience spanned designing business plans, assessing KPIs and conducting feasibility studies. He successfully assisted six small to medium enterprises acquire start-up capital from banks and also from venture capitalists.

After completing his full-time university studies in 2011, Innocent was hired by the Director of Investment Solutions to conduct investment research and analysis on different investment portfolios which included equities of JSE listed mining, logistics, pharmaceutical companies as well as short-term & long-term insurance companies.

In 2012 to 2017, Innocent became a Financial Analyst for Open Symmetry Group. With his wealth of experience in financial analysis, he performed budgeting and financial forecasts for different companies in various industries. He worked on different projects conducting due diligence and data analysis in which he successfully led two media projects. He has also handled accounting work which brought a good balance to his career making his business aptitude and financial acumen scalable across several industry markets. He joined The Strategic CFO in 2018 as a Financial Analyst.

Core Professional Competencies

Financial Modelling
Financial
Analysis
Accounting Analysis
Investment Analysis
Mergers and Acquisitions
Data Validation
Interpreting Financial Statements & Metrics
Variance Analysis & P/L Impact reports

Industries Served

BBA Finance & Accounting (Bachelors)
SAIFM Investments
SAP B1

Prior Experience

Smit and Cole Group (Business Consulting Firm)
Investment Solutions (Investment Wing of Alexander Forbes)
Open Symmetry Group (Consulting South African Company)