With 20+ years of experience in executive leadership roles, Chris Park brings that rare combination of versatility and stability to any team. Through participative leadership and appreciative inquiry, he builds on what already works while helping the organization to overcome challenges, grow, and develop, often surpassing targets. His industry experience includes SEC-listed global medical device manufacturing, television, and film production, as well as venture capital-backed startups in direct-to-consumer (DTC) electronics and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) lead generation technology.

A hard-working problem solver, Chris has served as the finance lead for executive teams, driving strategy, managing cash and risk, and coordinating fundraising, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and other financial transactions. Chris works well with people throughout an organization. Consistently proving himself as an ideal primary interface with company boards and investors while effectively developing and leading high-performance teams in accounting and finance, IT, HR, in-house counsel, and operations. Chris contributes the entirely fresh perspective of a consultant and the reliability of a long-time, trusted member of the team, making him invaluable for complex system integrations and implementations.

Chris’s most recent experience includes C-Level and executive roles at both start-up and established international corporations:

• CAO for Machinima, a venture-funded digital entertainment production company ultimately acquired by Warner Brothers
• CFO for Zeetogroup, a digital media technology service company
• CFO at Sensate, Inc, an international DTC electronics company
• Vice President of Finance for Starz Media, an entertainment company producing television programming and movies, owned by Liberty Media

Chris has brokered financial transactions, which include VC fundraising, Series rounds, Convertible Debt and M&A deals totaling over $100 million in cash and equity.

Chris holds a CPA license in the state of California, acquired while working for Coopers & Lybrand, LLC.