Steve Carnevale

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I will want to hire Steve as my CFO in every company I ever lead! I value his deep financial and business expertise which includes working with startups like ours. I leaned on him for his experience in complex funding and legal transactions. He was an integral part of our recent successful transaction with Truist. His focus on the details, process discipline and getting things done right were so needed in our company when we started.

These last 2.5 years have been a roller coaster of exciting highs and scary lows. Steve was always the voice of calm and reason. His team and his peers like and respect him. He guided us through those troubling times with an unwavering commitment and work ethic. We could not have done it without him!

Susan Cook, CEO

Zaloni

As an operationally focused financial executive with over 30 years of experience, Steve Carnevale has provided leadership to companies ranging from start-ups to organizations with international operations. Mr. Carnevale started his career at a Big Four public accounting firm, worked several years for a global consumer products company and has significant experience as a CFO with venture backed and private equity owned companies. In addition to his accounting and finance expertise, he has managed teams responsible for information technology, human resources, legal/contract support and operations.

A licensed CPA in North Carolina, Mr. Carnevale brings deep software industry experience along with consumer products, semiconductors, agribusiness and advertising technology. He has been an executive and led successful company exits to two publicly traded companies and one private equity firm.

Mr. Carnevale is a goal-driven leader with extensive experience in the areas of:

Financial Management
Strategic Planning
Venture Capital & Private Equity
Business Analysis
Budgeting
M&A (buy-side and sell-side)
Financial Modeling and Reporting
Due Diligence
Fundraising
Implementation of Policies and Controls

Currently, Steve serves as the part-time CFO for:

Reveal Mobile, a geofencing marketing and advertising software company
Itiliti Health, Inc., a medical software company accelerating communication between plan administrators and physicians
Skai Vision, a company that integrates artificial intelligence (AI) with video to drive process improvement and transparency in the workplace.

Read the praise clients speak about him here: Client Testimonials.

A native of Buffalo, New York, Mr. Carnevale attended Northeastern University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, concentration in Accounting and obtained his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. In 2009, Mr. Carnevale was awarded the Movers and Shakers award by Business Leader magazine.

Career Timeline

Joined Rankin McKenzie as Partner in 2019.
2018-2019, interim CFO of Palisade Company LLC, a private equity owned risk and decision analysis software company.
2017-2018, CFO of Global Software, LLC (now insightsoftware), a private equity owned financial report writing and analytics software and services company. Executive team leader in the sale to a top 50 private equity firm.
2015-2017, CFO of Advanced Animal Diagnostics, a venture backed agribusiness company focused on delivering on-farm diagnostics for the dairy and livestock industries.
2014-2015, CFO of two venture backed companies with a common investor.
2007-2013, CFO of Geomagic, a 3D software company. As a key executive, he led the finance, IT and human resources team through a period of growth and then sale of the company to 3D Systems, a publicly traded company.
2005-2007, Partner at Tatum, LLC where Mr. Carnevale served as CFO for companies including LVL7 Systems, a venture backed company sold to Broadcom Corporation, a publicly traded company.
2001-2005, CFO at Silicon Semiconductor.
2000-2001, CFO at Home Director, an IBM spinout.
1997-2000, National Services Manager handling retail accounts at Eastman Kodak.
1993-1997, various financial and business analysis roles at Qualex (Eastman Kodak subsidiary).
1990-1993, Accounting Manager at Post Software International.
1988-1990, Senior Corporate Auditor at Qualex (Eastman Kodak subsidiary)
1986-1988, Mr. Carnevale began his career with Ernst & Whinney in Raleigh, NC

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