Summary
Kevin Acker is a senior business leader with a proven record of leadership and achievement in assessing opportunities and creating new ventures and products in both startups and established companies. With a highly analytical mind, Kevin Acker has the ability to break down complex problems into manageable components and apply the right techniques to solve them. Kevin Acker has been successful in diverse industries with both domestic and international organizations.
• Financial planning & analysis
• Strategy & planning
• Business case development
• Mergers & acquisitions
• Financing & project funding
• Vendor management
• New venture startup & management
• Negotiations
• Product development
Education
The Wharton School
MBA
Dartmouth College
BA
Experience
Corporate Executive Board, Kevin Acker led product development and quantitative research for the IT Practice of CEB, a management consulting firm with a client base of senior IT executives at more than 1,000 companies, including 80% of the Fortune 500.
Washington, DC
• Created and championed a new function that introduced a suite of quantitative services with the greatest impact on client retention of all services offered by the practice.
• Developed the IT Budget and Spending Benchmarking service, focused on key IT spending and productivity metrics. Introduced online platform allowing clients to perform custom benchmarking cuts.
• Conceived and rolled out the “Vendor Knowledge Exchange,” an online service designed to collect and disseminate vendor ratings and facilitate vendor-related networking conversations among clients.
• Conducted quantitative research, including research that received the highest client rankings in the history of the Information Security practice gauging the most effective ways for the information security function to increase secure IT behavior through an original survey of more than 50,000 end-users.
Independent Consultant, Kevin Acker conducted strategy, finance and organizational consulting projects in a variety of industries.
• Carried out comprehensive strategy review and financial restructuring of Australian operations of world’s largest provider of electronic security and cash-in-transit services. Reduced cost structure by more than 25% and restored company to profitability through combination of headcount reductions and productivity increases.
• Formulated and implemented financial organizational and process framework for LA-based local exchange carrier. Selected accounting package. Redesigned organizational structure for finance and accounting staff.
USLaw.com, Kevin Acker served as CFO of USLaw.com, managing all planning, finance and accounting functions for Internet’s leading marketing partner for small law firms and source of legal information for consumers and small businesses.
• Created and maintained company business plan, financial model and budgeting and planning process. Oversaw selection, implementation and integration of Peoplesoft Financials accounting system.
• Navigated company through successful restructuring. Through reduction in headcount and renegotiation of major vendor contracts, transformed cost structure to bring company to break-even.
• Prepared private placement memorandum for $15MM equity offering and company sale memorandum.