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 Raleigh based CFO’ operating in the Software 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.
Cary Smith
CFO of CloudFactory
Cary brings to CloudFactory 23 years of experience in finance and accounting, with a particular love for fast paced, high-growth, international technology-related companies. JBoss was a technology startup with a distributed workforce spanning the globe. As the CFO at JBoss, Cary raised capital and participated in growing the company from $1 million in sales to $17 million in 30 months, culminating in an acquisition by Red Hat for $370 million. PaySys provided enterprise systems from offices in Johannesburg, Melbourne, Singapore, London, San Juan, and the U.S. As the Chief Accounting Officer for EarthLink, Cary participated in growing the company to $1.4+ billion in annual sales. Cary loves an adventure; and if an adventure does not exist, he will create one; he is not the stereo-typical CPA. Cary began his career in audit with Ernst & Young in Atlanta, Georgia.
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About CloudFactory: CloudFactory helps tech teams train and sustain AI with humans-in-the-loop.

Will Sendall
CFO of Librestream Technologies
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About Librestream Technologies: Librestream Technologies develops mobile video collaboration solutions for enterprises and provides onsight collaboration platform.
Jim Ford
Chief Financial Officer of LearnPlatform
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About LearnPlatform: LearnPlatform is the edtech effectiveness system equipping educators and their organizations to save time, save money and improve outcomes.

Dan Graham
CFO of Dude Solutions
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About Dude Solutions: Dude Solutions is the leading provider of SaaS operations software for education, government, healthcare and membership-based organizations.

Tom Mense
Chief Financial Officer of FMSystems
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About FMSystems, Rankin McKenzie: FM:Systems helps facilities and real-estate professionals improve customer service, reduce costs and increase productivity enterprise-wide.
John Dixon
CFO, Shareholder, Data Science & Analytics Consultant of ZynBit
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About Cisco, Kelly Services, ZynBit: ZynBit is a computer software company that specializes in providing customer IQ, Outlook, Salesforce, and Google Analytics.
Gleb Mikhailov
Chief Financial Officer of MobileSmith
Gleb Mikhailov is the chief financial officer of MobileSmith. He earned his MBA at Rutgers Business School.
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About MobileSmith: MobileSmith is a code-free mobile app development platform used by enterprise brands
Daniel Milligan
Chief Financial Officer of Global Data Consortium
Daniel Milligan is the Chief Financial Officer at Global Data Consortium.
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About Global Data Consortium: Global Data Consortium is building a process for global digital identity verification for businesses.