Tutor in Boston, Massachusetts

Thomas A. Fitzgerald has over 25 years of financial management experience as both a CFO and an investment banker for clients ranging from emerging growth companies to Fortune 500 industrial concerns. Companies for which he has provided services or been CFO include ones in the life sciences, technology, and industrial sectors. He presently serves as CFO of Velico Medical, Inc. He joined Velico when the company had only six weeks of cash in the bank, leading the company’s survival and turnaround. He is skilled in the areas of accounting, financial statement preparation, cash management, budgeting/analysis/planning, turnarounds, corporate governance, and reviewing contracts and other legal documents. His proficiencies in these areas has enabled him to develop and improve reporting and information systems, transforming financial and operating data into the knowledge by which management can better direct the business. His CFO positions have involved multiple locations and divisions (in the U.S. and Europe) giving him valuable experience with the financial management of multi-unit international businesses. As an investment banker, he developed substantial experience with capital planning and sourcing, and deal analysis and structuring in both the public and private capital markets. He built extensive knowledge of the institutional investor and research analyst communities and has developed highly effective investor relations programs. With well-honed communications and presentation skills (both written and oral), he knows how to present a company in a variety of formats to audiences of all sizes and natures. A significant component of his experience comprises mergers & acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and other strategic corporate transactions. From all these activities, he has developed highly effective negotiating skills. His most recent investment banking position was as founding Managing Director of the Corporate Finance/Investment Banking unit of Leerink Partners (f/k/a Leerink Swann & Company), a leading healthcare investment banking firm. After serving nearly four years in the U.S. Army (the last two as an airborne-qualified infantry officer), he received an A.B. in Economics with Honors from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.