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At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Boston based CFO’ operating in the Hardware space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Alison Dean
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer of iRobot
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Paul E Blondin
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of EDB
Paul Blondin is EDB’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. As CFO, Paul works closely with the senior executive team and board of directors to participate in strategic planning and forecasting. Paul oversees EDB’s financial controls and processes, which gives him unique insight into how and when EDB can penetrate new markets. Paul has more than 20 years of executive leadership experience in enterprise software. Before joining EDB, Paul was Managing Partner of KickStart Partners, LLC, a business advisory group to private equity investors and CEOs. Paul was previously an entrepreneur, having co-founded and led Pactolus Communication Software, which was sold in 2010. He held executive posts at IPHighway Ltd; Open Development Corp; and was President and CEO of the network security company Netect Ltd. until he engineered its sale in 1999. Paul also served as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Open Development Corporation, which was sold in 1997, and CFO of Cascade Communications Corp. Paul earned his MBA from Babson College and a BS in accounting from Boston College.
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About EDB: EDB is an open source-based data platform.
Mark A. Peters
Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer of Medrobotics
Mark Peters has over 25 years of finance leadership, operations management, business analytics and strategic planning experience in private and public companies, including successful IPO experience. Mr. Peters began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM before focusing on high growth medtech companies. His medtech experience includes Chief Financial Officer and Vice President roles for Health Language, a private equity financed healthcare IT company acquired by Wolters Kluwer; IST, a venture funded spinal implant company acquired by Integra LifeSciences; Aura Medsystems, a venture funded tissue closure company founded on technology licensed from Harvard Medical School / Mass. General Hospital; and Seikagaku Corporation, a publicly traded biopharma manufacturer of endotoxin detection re-agents. Mr. Peters earned a BBA in Accounting from The University of Texas and an MBA in Finance from The University of Notre Dame, where he serves as a Director on the Mendoza College of Business Graduate Alumni Board. He previously served on the Board of Directors for MassMEDIC (Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council) and is a licensed CPA.
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About Medrobotics: Medrobotics is a medical robotics company developing and commercializing the Flex Robotic System.
Peter F. McAree
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer of HeartWare International
Peter joined HeartWare in July 2012 as Chief Financial Officer with overall responsibility for the strategy and operations of the Company’s accounting and finance functions, as well as oversight of the Information Technology department. Peter has more than 25 years of financial management and public accounting experience, serving most recently as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Caliper Life Sciences prior to their acquisition by PerkinElmer in November 2011. Before that, Peter served as CFO of Zymark Corporation prior to the company’s merger with Caliper in 2003. Peter is a Certified Public Accountant in Massachusetts, and holds a degree from Bentley University.
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About HeartWare International: HeartWare International develops and manufactures small implantable heart pumps or VAD for the treatment of advanced heart failure in US.
Gary Lortie
Co-founder & CFO of SciAps
Gary Lortie is the CFO and Co-founder at SciAps Inc.
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About SciAps: SciAps offers field-hardened and portable analytical instruments that measures compounds, minerals, and elements.
