Michael Baas is a highly experienced and accomplished finance professional with over 20 years of expertise in both public and private accounting. He has served in several senior leadership roles across various industries, including real estate, technology, distribution, and entertainment. His skill set includes Controllership, GAAP, International Accounting, Audit coordination, FP&A, Budgeting, Data Governance, Change Management, and Global Business Process Owner. Baas holds a CPA license from the State of Florida (inactive) and a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Accounting.

Baas's career highlights include extensive experience with ERP upgrades and optimization, finance transformation, BlackLine as a business and system administrator and user, as well as Hyperion and SmartView experience. He has worked for big 6 audit clients and has been a featured speaker on finance technology used by his company at an international finance technology conference.

Baas is a consultant at Self-employed and was previously Managing Partner at Mabby Digital LLC, Director Retail Accounting at Delek US Holdings, Inc, Senior Manager Finance at BRIDGESTONE AMERICAS, Director Finance & Global Business Process Owner at Asurion, Owner at Baas Financial Consulting, CFO at I.S. Investments DBA Stonegate Land Company, Finance Manager at The Martin-Brower Company, Director of Accounting at CuraScript, Inc. An Express Scripts Co., Consultant at Self Employed and Assistant Corporate Controller at Planet Hollywood International.

Some of his notable skills include leadership, system implementations and upgrades, internal controls assessment and implementation, FP&A and budgeting, data governance, and change management. Baas has proven success in large and small companies from startups to public companies, with extensive experience with international and multi-location operations.