Donna is a finance executive and Chartered Financial Analyst who brings twenty years of experience to Instant Teams. Her career spans finance, strategy, and operational roles with a focus on cross-functional improvements, forecasting, risk management, and business development. Donna has worked across multiple industries, including media, education, technology, management consulting, and nonprofits.

Before joining Instant Teams, Donna served as the SVP of Finance at ExecOnline, where she built the Financial Planning & Analysis and Financial Operations departments from the ground up, creating standard budgeting, forecasting, and operational support protocols. She also oversaw software upgrades to streamline financial processes and procedures and led a cross-functional team to implement company-wide initiatives. As the Treasurer for the Breastfeeding Center of Greater Washington, Donna successfully navigated through pandemic shutdowns and financial uncertainty to ensure ongoing financial solvency.

Donna is eager to strengthen the ongoing mission of Instant Teams and is passionate about changing the trajectory of military and veteran spouses’ lives through rewarding remote work opportunities.

With 15+ years of experience, the bulk of that has principally been in SaaS with a focus on enterprise infrastructure and dev tools. Brian has led finance, accounting, and operations for Bandwidth.com, Ansible, Anchore, Code Climate, and now Tidelift. Growing early stage startups has become Brian's passion.

Brian brings a unique, cross-functional approach to finance and accounting, as he believes it's the role's responsibility to help others do more and make better decisions. Brian does that by leading with intellectual curiosity and empathy. He also feels it's his responsibility to mentor, educate, and learn from my peers in product development, engineering, and sales and marketing, so that they can collectively build a strong business and culture. Just as much as it is his responsibility to balance the books or build a financial model.

Success requires going the extra mile to help focus the analysis or decision-making process for the team. It can't be achieved by simply signing up for a bunch of tools, building a spreadsheet, or hiring a large team.

Brian looks forward to continuing building relationships with the rest of The F Suite Community--learning from shared experiences, growing together, and building a thriving community of operational finance leaders.