Cliff began his financial career by graduating from a top three US accounting university (University of Northern Iowa) and passing the CPA examination during his graduation year. He went on to join a national CPA firm which commenced a rigorous 30 + year career in corporate finance and operations. Cliff’s career progressed from entry level staff accountant to EVP and Division CFO of several Fortune 500 companies. Cliff specialized in Mergers & Acquisitions, Rollups, Financial & Operational Management and Turnarounds.

He has led an IPO and numerous transactions from both the buy and sell side. His Fortune 500 experience includes healthcare, commercial construction, manufacturing, automotive and eCommerce. Cliff’s very untraditional career has included:

1. CFO of the world’s largest open heart surgery company with 50,000 open heart surgeries per year.
2. MLB and Collegiate Products Licensee and Manufacturer
3. Full NASCAR Partner
4. Co-Founder of the largest OEM auto parts eCommerce platform ever created with 167,000,000 parts applications on it which he personally sold to AutoNation

Cliff is a driven results-oriented professional who is all about maximizing value and achievements.

He is at an “elective” point in life where he can do what he wants to do instead of what he has to do. His greatest passion is helping others. He has recognized that many small and mid-sized businesses do not have an exit strategy or the ability to conduct a sales transaction where whereas business buyers are typically very transaction savvy. Cliff really enjoys providing his Fortune 500 level financial experience to business owners to balance the negotiating table and achieve maximum value for his sellers.

Cliff is a very strong Christian who operates an altruistic company called Praying As One www.prayingasone.com which distributes a very unique 12” handheld Christian cross (Hold Onto Cross).

He also founded FansAlign www.fansalign.com with a goal of aligning one million MLB fans into a unified collective voice on behalf of all MLB fans.

He is happily married and has a daughter that works for Google and a son that works for AppFolio.

Cliff’s biggest weakness is that if you get him started talking about baseball you might never get him focused again.

He is a season ticket holder of the Chicago Cubs – San Diego Padres – Texas Rangers and he wrote a baseball essay that has been placed in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

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