Entreprenurial Route to CFO E3
Chad and Scott talk about Scott’s upbringing in a military family and his meteoric rise to the CFO of a publicly traded company. Scott grew up in upstate New York, received his Finance degree from Syracuse, and went to work as an investment banker. After a few years he knew he wanted more out of his career. He decided to move clear across the country to the West coast for B-school. This set off a series of career moves with smaller start-ups that quickly got him into the executive suite.
Scott goes into detail on unconventional moves he made that allowed him to quickly move into the executive suite and eventually hold the title of CFO for a publicly traded company. Anyone who has their eyes on the upper levels of financial management should tune in to hear this incredible journey.
OpenTech Alliance is a 20 year old provider of hardware and services focused on the self-storage industry primarily in the United States.
Scott Brogi started his career with a decade in corporate and investment banking with Chase on the east coast for 6 years, before coming west to earn an MBA in Entrepreneurial Finance from UCLA Anderson and then working for Houlihan Lokey in Los Angeles.
For the next 25 years he helped lead public and private ecommerce, education, healthcare and transportation companies through aggressive growth cycles and capital raises in southern California, concluding that time as CFO of NASDAQ-traded HyreCar Inc. where he instilled the financial discipline required to raise $40M in capital and increase market capitalization 10x in less than 3 years.
Scott recently joined OpenTech Alliance in Phoenix as CFO where he is helping build value again by focusing on recurring revenue growth and profitability.
Connect with Scott on LinkedIn.
About Financial Footsteps
Financial Footsteps is dedicated to providing insider access to successful accounting and finance leaders thereby providing ideas, insights, and ‘secrets to success’ to those aspiring to be leaders themselves.
Interactive conversations with guests will reveal the genesis for a career in accounting and finance, the great (and not so great) decisions that were made along the way, and the advice that these leaders would give to their younger selves.
About Your Host
Chad Dean has been an executive recruiter since 1996. He currently is owner and CEO of a top-ranked national recruiting firm with a 33 year history servicing the Finance disciplines.
Chad Dean’s relaxed and authentic recruiting style combined with a relentless work ethic and dedication to ethical recruiting has propelled him to the highest levels of success in recruitment and career counseling. He has been sought after by CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications for his expertise.
Chad Dean is a proud Arizona native, married for 21 years, with two second-generation native teenage sons. He has an MBA from Arizona State University and a BS in Biology from FHSU.
About Our Sponsor
Integrated Management Resources was founded in 1990 in Tempe Arizona. Starting with clients like Goldman Sachs (first client and still a client today) and top Wall Street hedge funds, IMR built a robust recruiting process that digs out the most desirable ‘passive’ candidates from our client’s competitors.
IMR’s Phoenix Accounting and Finance practice services large and medium sized organizations for mid-senior level full-time placement and interim staffing.
