Accounting, Auditing, and Tax professional with over 35 years of national and international experience. Former Business owner whose clients consisted of Public, Private, Not-for-Profit and Governmental entities. He has worked or consulted for Cooper Companies, Eastman Kodak, Corning, Fuji Medical Systems, Samsonite, Carestream Health, Agfa-Gevaert, Frontier Communications, Sun Chemical, Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield, Xerox, Razor, Boeing, Moog, Constellation Brands, Walt Disney, and Fox Entertainment. 

I have served as the vice president-tax for Bausch + Lomb and as the head of the corporate tax department at Goulds Pumps Inc. In both roles, I had overall responsibility for the leadership, management, administration, and direction of the corporate tax function. This included responsibility for global tax planning strategies, and working closely and collaboratively with operations and the corporate legal and treasury functions to determine and implement optimum legal, debt, and equity structures, and to maximize after-tax cash flows to the parent corporations through dividend planning and other repatriation strategies.

I have also served as Bausch + Lomb’s director of external tax reporting, responsible for the company’s income tax accounting and financial reporting requirements, and as a director in Bausch + Lomb’s corporate treasury department, continuing to work closely with operations and other corporate functions regarding global cash flow strategies, debt compliance, accounting for derivatives and other external reporting requirements, and the minimization of FX exposures and risks.

I am a Certified Public Accountant licensed in New York State, and was a manager at the public accounting firm of Deloitte prior to my corporate experience.