Joe started his career at a regional CPA firm for 14 years where he achieved the level of principal before accepting the position of Director of Finance for a large publicly traded company’s U.S. operations focused mainly on acquisitions. Joe led his team to eight successful acquisitions before deciding to follow his entrepreneurial spirit forming a start-up software company focused on web-based collabaration software. Joe was a founder and CFO and managed two rounds of funding while building the company to a successful sale to Oracle in 2004. Following that, Joe joined a private equity firm as CFO overseeing all investment opportunities as well as managing the growth of its portfolio companies. He has extensive M&A experience and has assisted in sales to both public and private companies totalling $100M+.