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 United States based CFO’ operating in the Robotics 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.
Ashim Gupta
CFO of UiPath
The potential for enterprise automation is only going to increase. UiPath is at the forefront of this monumental change and I could not be more excited to lead our customers through their digital transformation journeys.
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About UiPath: UiPath is a software company developing robotic process automation and artificial intelligence software.
Steven Bragonier
CFO and Co-Founder of Neotribe Ventures
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About Gainspeed, Neotribe Ventures: Neotribe Ventures is an early stage-venture capital firm which invests in breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination.
Luther Lau
Vice President, Treasurer, and Chief Financial Officer of SRI International
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About SRI International: SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government and industry.
Helen Riley
Chief Financial Officer of X, the moonshot factory
As Chief Financial Officer at X, Helen leads the teams that smooth the way for moonshot technologies to become successful businesses. Helen joined X from Google where she led global finance and analytics for Google’s marketing teams, focused on products such as YouTube, Search and Android. Before joining Google, Helen was a strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in London. Helen holds a B.A. & M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School. Originally from London, UK, Helen now lives with her husband and two children in California.
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About X, the moonshot factory: X, the moonshot factory invents and launches breakthrough technologies and radical solutions.
David Cayet
Chief Financial Officer of Local Motors
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About Local Motors: Local Motors is an American motor vehicle company that creates and delivers safe and accessible mobility solutions for local communities.
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.
Alicia Evans
Chief Financial Officer of HaptX
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About HaptX: HaptX is a leading haptics company that brings realistic touch to virtual reality for the first time with HaptX Gloves.
Enakshi Singh
Chief Financial Officer of Zymergen
Prior to joining Zymergen, Ena was focused on semiconductor investments at Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund. She spent the previous seven years in investment banking, initially at Salomon Smith Barney’s Latin America Group, later working for Merrill Lynch’s Technology Investment Banking Group. Ena studied at Cornell University and received her graduate degree at MIT Sloan School of Management.
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About Zymergen: Zymergen is a biotechnology company that specializes in machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence.
Ali Byrd
Chief Financial Officer of Olive
Ali is a builder and leader of high-performance finance and operations for early and growth-stage companies spanning clean tech, digital music, software, fintech, marketing, and more. As a serial startup Chief Financial Officer, he has executed financial modeling, transactions, and post-merger integrations. In 1997, Ali joined Microsoft, leading developer evangelism and competitive engagement for East Coast enterprise sales and consulting teams. He later oversaw product management and the launch of Microsoft’s SharePoint business, as well as strategic planning and growth for Microsoft’s $10B Office business. He also was responsible for M&A due diligence and post-merger management for Microsoft’s venture acquisitions. Ali subsequently joined the Global Technology Investment Banking group at Lehman Brothers, providing M&A and corporate finance advisory. He later joined the next-generation biofuels company Primafuel, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, where he led fundraising and infrastructure projects. In 2011, he joined SecondMarket as Senior Vice President, facilitating $2B+ in secondary transactions for the world’s best venture-backed private companies. He then joined Movable Ink as CFO, producing record growth and profitability for the marketing personalization company. He also served as CFO of Olapic, a visual marketing leader that he helped sell to Monotype in 2016. Ali earned his BSE in Electrical Engineering from Duke and is now a regional board member for Duke New York. His MBA is from the Wharton School of Business, with a concentration on finance and entrepreneurship.
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About Olive: Olive develops an artificial intelligence workforce for the health care industry.
Scott Ward
Chief Financial Officer of 6 River Systems
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About 6 River Systems: 6 River Systems mission is to redefine fulfillment automation for e-commerce and retail operations.
Lianglibo Xing
Co-Founder and CFO of XYZ Robotics
CFO Lianglibo Xing has a master degree in Economics from Peking University. He formerly worked in the headquarter of ICBC, the world’s leading commercial bank.
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About XYZ Robotics: XYZ Robotics develops AI-enabled robotic perception and manipulation technology for logistics and manufacturing automation.
Daniel Beaven
CFO of Carnegie Robotics
Daniel Beaven is the CFO at Carnegie Robotics.
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About Carnegie Robotics: Carnegie Robotics builds reliable robotics products and smart sensors to improve productivity, reliability and safety.
Dustin Driggs
CFO of Barracuda Networks
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About Barracuda Networks: Barracuda is a provider of powerful, easy-to-use, affordable IT solutions for security and storage.
Josh Araujo
Chief Financial Officer of Robotic Research
Josh Araujo is the Chief Financial Officer of Robotic Research. He is a finance professional with more than 20 years of experience across military, investment banking, and financial leadership roles. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Texas Tech University and an M.B.A. from Texas A&M University.
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About Robotic Research: Robotic Research develops autonomy and robotic technology to improve the safety, security, and effectiveness of transportation.
Paul Froutan
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer of Xenex
Paul Froutan is the coo at Xenex Disinfection Services.
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About Xenex: Xenex offers Pulsed Xenon Full Spectrum, a UV disinfection solution that reduces the bacterial load associated with the risk for HAIs.
Giridhar Premsingh
Global Chief Financial Officer of DoiT International
Giridhar has held senior finance roles at both public and private technology companies including most recently as Chief Financial Officer at Onica, responsible for global financial and legal operations. As Chief Financial Officer at REAN Cloud, he led all aspects of accounting, corporate planning, financial reporting, tax, treasury, investor relations, and legal. As a senior finance leader at Virtustream Inc., he played an instrumental role in the company’s disruptive growth and ultimate sale to EMC Corporation in a $1.2 billion acquisition transaction. Giridhar began his career with Ernst & Young and is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of Colorado. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelors in Accounting from Bangalore University, India.
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About DoiT International: We tackle complex problems of scale using our expertise in resolving problems, coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and system design.
Billy McGuire
COO & CFO of Teal Drones
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About Teal Drones: Teal Drones is a commercial and government unmanned aerial vehicle technology.
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.
SEONGJIN KIM
CFO of TiTAN Platform US
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About TiTAN Platform US: TiTAN Platform is a smart content and device company. TiTAN delivers an innovative global ecosystem of smart software and hardware products.
Anna Brunelle
CFO of Ouster
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About Ouster: Ouster builds high-resolution lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and many other applications.
David Dillman
CFO of Rev1 Ventures
Dave has responsibility for finance, operations, external reporting and human resources. He also serves as CFO for Rev1’s managed investment funds. Dave came to Rev1 after a career in corporate accounting with the holding company of Alamo, Enterprise and National Car Rental. He’s a skier and mountain biker, who is waiting for our entrepreneurs to invent the transporter so he can teleport back home to Montana for the weekends. Dave has a BS in Accounting from the University of Montana and is an Ohio licensed CPA.
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About Rev1 Ventures: Rev1 Ventures is an investor startup studio that combines capital and strategic services to help startups scale and corporates innovate.
John Oppermann
CFO/CAO/Treasurer/Controller of Odyssey Marine Exploration
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About Odyssey Marine Exploration: Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. is an American company engaged in the salvage of deep-water shipwrecks.
Patrick Deem
Co-Founder & CFO, Head of Business Development of Voodoo Manufacturing
Patrick Deem is the Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund.
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About Pioneer Fund, Voodoo Manufacturing: Voodoo Manufacturing is giving everyone on Earth the power to manufacture.
Caitlin Fiordirosa
Chief Financial Officer of Path Robotics
Caitlin Fiordirosa is the Chief Financial Officer at Path Robotics.
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About Path Robotics: Path Robotics is a developer of fully autonomous and intelligent robotic welding cells.
Roy A. Ceccato
Chief Financial Officer of Atlantic Metro
Mr. Ceccato joined Atlantic Metro in December 2012, as a financial consultant and is now the acting CFO of the Company. His primary focus has been on preparing the Company’s financial statements for full audit by providing best practices and effectively presenting the Company’s assets and professional strengths to the financial community. He is the principal architect of our current financing activities which include major capital leases from OEM’s and a credit facility with a tech-centric commercial senior lender. He also heads up our strategic acquisition plan and provides requisite due-diligence expertise. Prior to joining Atlantic Metro, Mr. Ceccato was the Vice President of Finance for DecisionPoint Systems, Inc., (“DPSI”) a position he held from July 2007 through October 2012. He played a key role in DPSI, a publicly traded company where he was responsible for Mergers and Acquisitions, major contract reviews, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and external financial reporting for SEC public reporting requirements. From April 2004 until June 2007, he was a Director and CFO of a tri-state environmental remediation contractor. He has also served in various prior roles as Director and Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer and Director of Finance of several publicly traded companies in service and manufacturing industries and listed on all the major stock exchanges.
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About Atlantic Metro: Atlantic Metro delivers custom-tailored IT solutions like cloud hosting, nationwide network connectivity, and secure data center colocation.
Braun Kiess
Chief Financial Officer of RST Automation
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About RST Automation: Robotic Automation (RST) specializes in hospital automation, applying proven robotic techniques.
Edward Puisis
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Intelligrated
Edward Puisis joined Intelligrated as chief financial officer and executive vice president in January 2010, and is responsible for overseeing Intelligrated’s finance, human resources, information technology, and procurement departments. In 1986, Ed joined GE and their financial management program. Upon completion of the program, and throughout his career with GE, Ed had the opportunity to work in manufacturing, marketing, sales, aftermarket and finance. Ed has 24 years of experience at both corporate and small entrepreneurial businesses. He has held executive roles in industrial systems, logistics, steel and construction-related industries, and served as CFO in both public and private businesses. Prior to Intelligrated, Ed managed financial operations, human resources and information systems for Dayton Superior Corporation. Ed holds a Bachelor of Science from Lewis University and an MBA from DePaul University.
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About Intelligrated: Intelligrated is a leading North American-based, single-source provider of intelligent automated material handling solutions.
John Stromquist
CFO of Kimera Systems
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About Kimera Systems: Kimera Systems produces the world’s first human-like intelligence technology to make mobile devices and other networked devices smarter.
Fiona Lazarow
Chief Financial Officer of CTL Medical
Fiona Lazarow has more than 30 years of combined experience in financial management and the medical device industry. At CTL Medical, Lazarow is responsible for directing all financial aspects of the business, including accounting practices, budgeting, financial planning and analysis, and monitoring financial performance. Prior to joining CTL Medical, Lazarow served in executive financial roles for medical development companies, manufacturers and restaurant franchises with locations in multiple countries. Lazarow managed the accounting and worked with attorneys, outside auditors and other personnel on all levels of financial matters. Lazarow graduated from the University of Cape Town, South Africa with a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa in 1984. She received her CPA license in Texas in 1986 and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
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About CTL Medical: CTL Medical Corporation assembled a world class executive team, bringing together some of the industry’s most exceptional talent.
Nancy DeCicco
Acting Chief Financial Officer of Top Flight Technologies
Nancy oversees the financial planning, accounting, and company policies. Her 30+ years of experience includes providing clients with solutions to their financial, structural, and organizational needs, including taxation, accounting, investment relations, and human resources. Her expertise and experience include the recent funding, corporate structure and financial strategies for several IT global start-ups. Nancy received her Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Rutgers University.
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About Top Flight Technologies: Top Flight Technologies is dedicated to application-specific, cost effective commercial solutions of unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs).
Anurag Pal
CFO of Ingen Dynamics
Experienced finance professional with extensive operational, finance and sales and marketing background. Texas Austin MBA and previous roles include Director at Hewlett Packard.
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About Escalon Services, Ingen Dynamics: Ingen Dynamics is an interactive personal home robot.
Andy Kaplinsky
CFO of NEXT Future Transportation
Andy has extensive experience in corporate leadership, new business development and business transformation – a proven leader who turns ideas into actions by building high performance teams driven to deliver results. With senior executive roles in both commercial development and finance, Andy uniquely blends financial rigor and strategic creativity to rapidly drive customer focused change that impacts the bottom line. Andy has more than 20 years of experience in leading change and turnarounds in challenging business environments. Most recently, he was Chief Commercial Officer at Greyhound Lines where he built a new team that consolidated direct responsibility for advertising, revenue management, schedule product, sales channel strategy, strategic alliances and business intelligence. He joined Greyhound in 2004 as Director of Strategic Planning, leading a comprehensive route restructuring effort that more than doubled Greyhound’s earnings and tripled their returns before becoming Greyhound’s Chief Financial Officer in 2009. Prior to Greyhound, Andy spent 12 years in various business planning and strategy roles with multiple Fortune 500 companies, building expertise in consumer products, healthcare and transportation. In his most recent role as Chief Commercial Officer at Greyhound, Andy led a comprehensive digital transformation to increase customer engagement and make the entire customer journey as hassle free as possible. Supporting the transformation, Andy’s team developed a new brand strategy and advertising campaign to positively reposition Greyhound as a surprisingly smart and modern travel option. The combined effort has played a critical role in returning the entire North American bus industry back to vibrancy. He is currently serving as an advisor to several early stage technology companies in business plan development and fund raising including expanding strategic partnerships and accelerating their go to market strategies.
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About NEXT Future Transportation: Designs, manufactures, and distributes advanced electric vehicles and robotic systems transportation and logistics
Pasquale Maturo
CFO of Costa Coffee BaristaBot
Pasquale Maturo serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Briggo.
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About Costa Coffee BaristaBot: Costa Coffee BaristaBot is an automatic coffee-dispensing machine developed using robotic technology.
Kyle Cobb
Co-Founder, President & CFO of Advanced Farm Technologies
Kyle Cobb is the Co-Founder, President and CFO at Advanced.Farm.
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About Advanced Farm Technologies: Advanced Farm Technologies is a robotics company for the next frontier of farming.
Brian Bharwani
CFO of PrecisionHawk
Brian Bharwani serves as the Chief Financial Officer at PrecisionHawk.
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About PrecisionHawk: Precision Hawk develops and integrates commercial drone technology that redefines aerial data collection and analysis.
Jacques Lafleur
CFO of DroneTerminus
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About : We are the last mile solution. Making autonomous drone delivery safer by removing the human intervention element altogether.
Bob Dentzman
Co-Founder, CFO of Sniffer Robotics
Bob is a seasoned senior financial executive with a broad based background spanning over 40 years with 3 publicly traded companies. He has deep experience in the areas of investor relations, treasury, and corporate finance which include Herman Miller, Inc., Enphase Energy, and Energy Conversion Devices. Bob served as a member of the Board of Directors of Byron Bank and its parent O.A.K. Financial Corporation, a publicly traded company. He chaired the Audit Committee and was also a member of the Directors’ Loan Committee and the Executive Committee. Bob, along with the other board members, played a key role in providing guidance as the bank successfully rebuilt its senior management team. In his board role, Bob was engaged in completing the successful merger with Chemical Bank in 2010 and later served on the Board of Chemical Bank West Michigan until leaving Michigan for the San Francisco Bay Area to join a “clean tech” company, Enphase Energy as Treasurer. As an Entrepreneur Bob started and successfully sold two businesses, one focused on investor relations communications and the other, a specialty retailer of Herman Miller, Inc. furniture and through his consulting business, RFD, LLC. he assisted his clients in acquiring capital to fund growth and evaluating business transition alternatives. Bob has also served on the Board of Education Associates of Black River Charter School and on the Board of Directors of Rest Haven, a faith-based continuing care adult retirement organization. Bob received his MBA with a finance concentration from Western Michigan University and his bachelor’s degree in economics from Kalamazoo College. He lives in the Ludington, Michigan area in the summer and Tucson in the winter with his wife of 35yrs, Barb. He has one child, Katie, 27 who recently completed her PhD and is doing Post-doc work for Washington State University in Pullman, WA.
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About Sniffer Robotics: A New Performance Standard for Managing Methane Emissions
Monti Ackerman
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Fluke
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About Fluke: Fluke Corporation is the world leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of electronic test tools and software.
Jim Dore
Chief Financial Officer of Pageflex Inc.
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About Pageflex Inc.: Pageflex develops award-winning software for marketing automation, document customization and flexible web-to-print portals.
Steve Genestreti
Executive VP & Chief Financial Officer of Physical Sciences Inc.
Steve joined PSI in 1990 with eight years of experience in high tech manufacturing and an MBA from Babson College. Steve oversees PSI’s financial and administrative management, including Finance and Accounting, Legal, Tax and Treasury functions.
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About Physical Sciences Inc.: Physical Sciences provides contract research and development services in technical areas to both government and commercial users.
Avi Lifshitz
CFO of Pimi Agro
Mr. Avi Lifshitz is our Chief Financial Officer, and brings to Pimi more than 25 years of experience in accounting, finance and business management. , Mr. Lifshitz is serving for 16 years as CFO of Jordan Valley Semiconductors Ltd which is preparing its financial statement in accordance with the US GAAP. He is the Secretary of Jordan Valley Semiconductors UK Ltd and Jordan Valley Semi Conductors Gmbh (Germany). He has joined Meiri-Lifshitz Accounting firm in 1990 and is a partner since then. Mr. Lifshitz is a director in Bede Scientific Inc (US) in Efrat Consultants Ltd (ISR) and in Ed-Wise Ltd (ISR). Mr. Lifshitz teaches at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology where he won an award for excellence in 1998. He is certified as a public accountant in Israel, and holds a B.A. in economics and accounting from Haifa University.
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About Pimi Agro: Pimi Agro was established in 2004 to capitalize on many years of research in developing eco-friendly solutions.
Dustin Allen
CEO/CFO of BareLabor
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About BareLabor: BareLabor is an app that provides users with three estimates of any given car repair that are low, average or high estimates.
Nancy Slaughter
CFO of Omni Dragon Development
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About : Artificial Intelligence R&D
Ryan Steck
CFO of Ignite Spot
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About Ignite Spot: Ignite Spot is the entrepreneur’s solution for outsourced accounting.