Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

University of California, Davis

CFO at Brinqa

I advise founder-led companies on business development, financing, acquisitions, corporate sales and integrations.

Song Hill Capital

Founder and Principal

I advise startups in this Stanford-backed business accelerator.  I've worked with the following terrific StartX companies: SameGoal, Blendoor, Mattermost, SoniTrack Systems, twoXAR, MudWatt, ContractSafe, CardioLogs, PBC Tech, Kofa and Legal.io.

StartX.

Mentor for Startups

I advised this leader in cyber-risk management in a $110 million financing from Insight Partners.  I then joined as CFO and built the finance and HR functions

Brinqa

Chief Financial Officer

I closed six industry collaborations, built the G&A functions and helped raise venture financing from SoftBank and Andreessen Horowitz.

Aria Pharmaceuticals

Chief Financial Officer and Board Member

* Developed "clean sheet"​ organization designs for HP's split into two companies.
* Re-designed strategic alliances, centralizing partnerships to provide one point of leadership.

Hewlett-Packard

VP Internal Consulting

* Led 25 person HR group for mergers, acquisitions and outsourcing
* Successfully on-boarded over 10,000 employees
* Improved on-boarded employee engagement scores by increasing personal contact
* Improved processes for defined benefit plans, resulting in less assumed risk

VP HR for M&A and Outsourcing

* Led M&A execution and integration groups
* Closed 20 acquisitions representing $6.1B in transaction volume and three divestitures
* Led projects for software, servers, storage, microelectronics and services
* Reviewed many large-scale acquisition opportunities with CEO staff
* Co-head of Sun's investment committee for venture investments
* Negotiated $700M convertible note issue with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
* Team member on $7.4B sale of Sun Microsystems to Oracle Corporation

Sun Microsystems

VP M&A

* Raised $65M in venture financing from Warburg Pincus and Bedrock Capital Partners
* Selected, negotiated and implemented PeopleSoft ERP package
* Led first audit and budgeting process

ChartONE - largest photocopier of medical records in US

EVP, Chief Financial Officer

* Closed ChartOne spinoff
* Executed six partnership transactions and two small acquisitions

QuadraMed Corp - software and services for healthcare providers

EVP, Business Development

* Led healthcare M&A efforts; generally covered healthcare information services companies
* Led acquisitions, sales, divestitures, hostile defenses, restructurings
* Provided shareholder rights plans, fairness opinions and valuations

Volpe Brown Whelan & Co.

Principal - M&A Advisor

* Marketed and managed international M&A assignments
* Cross-industries with emphasis in automotive and branded-consumer
* Founding member of the New York M&A team; developed models and other templates.

Citicorp

VP - M&A Advisor

* Managed M&A assignments, particularly with industrial enterprises and equity sponsors
* Marketed M&A services to the bank's clients.

Brian Moriarty