President, Western Management Associates
Greater Los Angeles Area
President, Western Management Associates
Greater Los Angeles Area
Gene provides senior executive coaching (one-on-one learning sessions in management finance), part-time financial management (the CFO For Rent® service), finance department effectiveness audits, management seminars and training programs throughout the US.
He specializes in helping executives who run growing companies achieve greater financial success through best management practices. He brings to a wide range of corporate clients his experience in financial & general management, coaching and training, business planning, accounting and reporting, business financing and staffing.
He has served as a senior financial officer for publicly traded and privately owned companies for over 30 years, including the past 20 years as founder and principal consultant of Western Management Associates.
Gene is a Certified Management Consultant and a CPA. His professional career includes senior management positions with Computer Sciences Corporation (VP Finance & Administration, INFONET), Epson America (Corporate Controller), Superscope Inc. (CFO, VP Finance & Treasurer), Grant Thornton (Audit Manager). As a financial advisor and coach he has served nearly a hundred smaller companies in manufacturing, technology, business services and consumer products areas.
Gene is the author of Finance for Non-Financial Managers, published in 2003 by McGraw-Hill. He is a frequent speaker at association conferences and corporate meetings across the US on finance, business planning, and management. He is also the author/publisher of We Thought You'd Like to Know, a business newsletter that has been published continuously for over 12 years, as well as the author of many articles published in nationally distributed business magazines and newsletters.
His education includes a BS in Business (Accounting) from The Smeal College of Business at Penn State University and post-graduate work at UCLA. He also carries the permanent rank of Commander, U.S.Navy (retired).
executive coaching in finance for senior executives, finance for non-financial managers, financial management, business planning, management effectiveness audits, management workshops, professional speaker, seminar leader and trainer in financial topics.
Exceptional Children's Foundation (former Chairman of the Board), New Horizons SFVAR (Treasurer and board member), Professional Resource Organization (PRO), Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), National Speakers Association (former chapter board member), Institute of Management Consultants (former chapter president)
Gold Microphone award from National Speakers Association, Los Angeles Chapter.
Various awards for not-for-profit board service.