Brian Hickie

Background

About Brian Hickie

Accomplished professional with over 25 years of in depth and executive level experience in most enterprise disciplines essential for serving as a C-level leader and/or Board Director: Accounting, Finance, Information Systems & Technology, Operations, Sales & Marketing, Security & Controls, Legal (corporate, patent & contracts), and Human Resources. A career steeped in quantitative analysis that allows for solving business challenges from a thoughtful, methodical, and holistic perspective. Highly motivated, committed, and influential change leader, well versed in establishing and maintaining highly functional teams. Career highlights: As Chief Financial Officer, oversaw $21 million capital raise strategy through a series of Convertible Promissory Note rounds, a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE) round, and a Qualified Financing round (series seed); oversaw revenue growth from 100% to 200% year-over-year; created & managed annual budgets, monthly forecasts & annual reports; directed & supported Board of Directors governance; negotiated customer, service provider & insurance contracts; led & supervised SOC 2 Type 2 & ISO 27001 audits; managed PEO deployment. As Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of IT, led team of 150 global infrastructure & application development resources; oversaw $45 million annual operating budget & $14 million capital budget; directed global data center co-location migration and storage & hardware optimization; spearheaded consolidation of multiple ERP solutions on to SAP, led software solutions development across many platforms; maintained appropriate security & controls measures. As Vice President of Business Intelligence (BI) & Analytics, led the delivery of billions in Working Capital improvements for a Fortune 10 company through the on-time/on-budget delivery of one of the largest, most comprehensive & successful SAP BI implementations; oversaw $55 million capital budget & $8 million annual operating budget; deployed enterprise performance measures frameworks.