Pat provides strategic guidance into several practice areas at RoseRyan, including corporate governance, strategic projects and operational accounting. In addition, she manages multiple client relationships, develops new solutions for the firm, oversees strategic and corporate culture programs, and provides thought leadership on corporate governance and transaction topics in the press and media.

Pat has worked in various financial management roles with primarily mid-size, public, technology companies as CFO, vice president of finance and controller. She also worked with Price Waterhouse for five years as an auditor.

Pat does a lot of things well, including revenue recognition, SEC and management reporting, mergers and acquisitions, SOX compliance and risk management, and plain old nuts-and-bolts accounting, to name a few. Pat is a former Big 4 CPA, CGMA and holds a BS in accounting from San Jose State University.

 

Maureen Ryan knows business from all the angles. Her career has been a 20+ year journey through positions in engineering, sales, marketing, operations and, with RoseRyan, the glamorous world of finance.Maureen joined RoseRyan in 2000 to spearhead business development. Before that, she was an account executive with Nortel Networks, marketing manager at Bay Networks and sales operations manager at Quantum Corp. As engineering program manager at General Dynamics, she was responsible for landing a $20 million government contract for the development of a major missile system.

Maureen holds a BS in aeronautics from San Jose State University and an MBA from San Diego State University. Her passion is the relentless pursuit of equal rights for women.

 

Pro since: 1985

Excels at: audit prep, general & cost accounting, SOX, forecasting, budgeting & planning, fulfillment planning & sales operations

Prior gigs: Brocade, Connetics, NetFrame, NVIDIA, Petrinovich, Pugh & Jones, Quantum, biotech companies

Motto: A job worth doing is a job worth doing well!