Jim is a Co-Founder of FLG Partners, with over 35 years of financial and executive experience in both the high technology and life science industries. His industry experience includes telecommunications, biotechnology instrumentation, software, semi-conductor equipment, internet services, and medical devices. In addition to strengths in both financial management and technical accounting, he has managed the legal, information technology, human resources, and facilities functions.

Jim is current in SEC reporting, having recently completed an engagement as interim CFO of a public company that had lost its CFO and senior accounting staff while in the midst of a significant M&A transaction, the restructuring of debt, and a delisting notification from NASDAQ. In addition to ensuring the client’s SEC filings remained current, all these issues were successfully concluded during Jim’s engagement.

He has served as a Director and Secretary, as well as Chief Financial Officer, and was the co-founder of Applied Biosystems, a highly successful public biotechnology research instrument company. He has worked with several technology growth companies, where his expertise in liquidity strategies, initial public offerings and sales of the company, as well as managing rapid growth and international expansion, offered quick and practical solutions to operational issues and provided a seasoned perspective on strategic issues. He began his career with Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte & Touche) and is a former Certified Public Accountant in California.

Jim earned a BSEE (With Distinction) in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and a MBA from Harvard University.