Kimberly Stanley, CFO
Kim spent the 20+ years working with high growth education technology companies. She passed the CPA exam and started out her career working in accounting and finance. Along the journey of her career, she discovered a love of building and operating businesses. She ran and expanded the largest group of culinary arts schools in the world, Le Cordon Bleu, which had over 20,000 students and 17 campuses across the United States. She then helped to create the world’s first online Title IV eligible culinary arts program at Escoffier Schools of Culinary Arts.
Following Escoffier Kim formed a start-up called Veraki. Veraki was a personal growth app intended to teach users mindfulness tools as part of their daily routines.
After Veraki, Kim went back to her roots of finance and accounting as a consulting CFO for business in various stages of growth. She is able to leverage her start-up experience along with her other finance and operations experiences to partner with companies as they seek to grow and expand their operations.
Kim’s areas of expertise include; education, finance, technology, retail, manufacturing, hospitality, and service industries. She has worked for publicly traded companies, venture backed start-ups, and start-ups in their first angel round of funding. She has managed all roles in finance organizations in addition to overseeing all other functional departments. She is well versed in capital management, fundraising, and mergers and acquisitions.
When Kim is not working, she is the single mother to a beautiful 2 year old daughter named Kora. She also is an avid hiker who loves to spend time daily out in Nature.
- B.S., Accountancy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Chartered Public Accountant
Kim spent the 20+ years working with high growth education technology companies. She passed the CPA exam and started out her career working in accounting and finance. Along the journey of her career, she discovered a love of building and operating businesses. She ran and expanded the largest group of culinary arts schools in the world, Le Cordon Bleu, which had over 20,000 students and 17 campuses across the United States. She then helped to create the world’s first online Title IV eligible culinary arts program at Escoffier Schools of Culinary Arts.
Following Escoffier Kim formed a start-up called Veraki. Veraki was a personal growth app intended to teach users mindfulness tools as part of their daily routines.
After Veraki, Kim went back to her roots of finance and accounting as a consulting CFO for business in various stages of growth. She is able to leverage her start-up experience along with her other finance and operations experiences to partner with companies as they seek to grow and expand their operations.
Kim’s areas of expertise include; education, finance, technology, retail, manufacturing, hospitality, and service industries. She has worked for publicly traded companies, venture backed start-ups, and start-ups in their first angel round of funding. She has managed all roles in finance organizations in addition to overseeing all other functional departments. She is well versed in capital management, fundraising, and mergers and acquisitions.
When Kim is not working, she is the single mother to a beautiful 2 year old daughter named Kora. She also is an avid hiker who loves to spend time daily out in Nature.
- B.S., Accountancy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Chartered Public Accountant