Gareth Young

Current

Business Advisor at finanSight (Self-employed)
Account Representative at Alpharesults

Past

Principal at finanSight (Self-employed)
Finance and Operations at finanSight (Self-employed)
Author at Gareth's Novels

Executive Director - Corporate Development at BellSouth
Manager - M&A Accounting at BellSouth
Audit Manager at Deloitte & Touche
Audit Manager at Deloitte Haskins & Sells

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Education

University of Oxford
CPA
Chartered Accountant

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Industry

Investment Banking

Gareth Young’s Summary

For 15 years through 2006 at BellSouth I was responsible for developing and executing business expansion and rationalization strategies through M&A, partnerships, and other corporate and commercial transactions. I helped businesses identify strategic needs, establish priorities and plans, and execute on their plans. Where alliances, acquisitions, or divestitures were required, I established search criteria, screened and selected candidates, and staffed and led teams to negotiate, execute and close transactions.

In 2006 I founded finanSight which has served small/medium businesses and startups for four years and helped them drive growth, improved financial performance, enhanced cashflow, and value creation with a variety of niche services.

My 2009 accomplishments are: publishing my first novel, The Grace of Guilt; going to South Africa on vacation with my Dad; and running my business successfully and profitably through the financial storm.

Gareth Young’s Specialties:

M&A, mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, business brokerage, business services, exit strategy, acquisition, exit, sale, strategy, information memorandum preparation, start-ups, entrepreneurial skills, accounting and finance (CPA and Chartered Accountant), business cases and business plans. Also novels, publishing-on-demand, and spirituality, zen and interfaith, retraining tax credits, training, facilitation, leadership forums, development of training materials, curriculum, CPE.

Gareth Young’s Experience

Business Advisor
finanSight (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Accounting industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)

Provide advisory services to business owners seeking to optimize value through assisting with the development of exit strategies and helping with execution, and to buyers of businesses. We focus on businesses with revenues of $5- to $30-million in the technology, manufacturing, distribution and services industries.
Account Representative

Alpharesults

(Accounting industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )

Help businesses to identify, quantify, document, and file for Georgia state tax credits, especially the retraining tax credit, which can result in obtaining a refund of up to 50% of Georgia state income tax paid for current and prior years. "We maximize the tax credits while minimizing the risk, resources, and costs associated with obtaining them."
Principal
finanSight (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Accounting industry)

January 2008 — October 2009 (1 year 10 months)

finanSight serves the following markets:

1) Start-Ups: Provide a wide range of services, from basic accounting and organization, financial modeling, development of funding documentation and plans, to strategic, operational, and general business advice. We only work with a small number of businesses, select only those in which we believe, and partner closely as a member of the core team.

2) GA Retraining Tax Credits: Work in partnership with Alpharesults to serve small/midsized private businesses and obtain retraining tax credits that can be substantial.

3) CPA firms: Lead the design, development, and in-housing of a standardized, curriculum-based firm-wide training program. Additionally lead and facilitate strategic visioning among leadership teams.
Finance and Operations
finanSight (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Accounting industry)

October 2005 — December 2008 (3 years 3 months)

Assisted start-up organizations with a broad range of services, from basic accounting and organization, financial modeling, development of funding documentation and plans, to strategic, operational, and general business advice.
Author

Gareth's Novels

(Writing and Editing industry)

2003 — 2008 (5 years )

I have several novels published and soon to be published:

- The Grace of Guilt, published 3/09 (on Amazon and Kindle) is set in a radically fundamentalist community in the rural South. It follows the destruction of three families and their quests for redemption, and examines the old prejudice of the new South.

- Banana Split Baby, scheduled for publication in the first half of 2010, follows the destruction of a middle aged man's life when he receives a large inheritance, quits a boring job, and is torn apart by the forces of sexual puritanism and prurience that coexist in uncomfortable and sometimes fierce competition in modern America.

Other works in progress include a futuristic thriller and a non-fiction book under the working title, "Meditation must Work."
Executive Director - Corporate Development

BellSouth

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BLS; Telecommunications industry)

1995 — 2006 (11 years )

Negotiated $3.5bn investment and commercial contracts with Qwest that generated $1+ bn sales since 2002. Unique business model gives BellSouth wholesale access to Qwest retail TDM products, network, billing and IT, and a high ROIC.

Acquired cellular businesses in Peru, Ecuador, and Nicaragua in 1997 (3 deals) for $300 million, partnering with local individuals; added $100+mm revenue and contributed 25% of Latin American LOB revenue growth through sale in 2004.

Negotiated $1.5bn satellite lease for DBS video delivery; participated in acquisition of MMDS spectrum to position BellSouth for video entertainment.

Formed multiple diverse alliances, esp. re Internet: incl. minority investments (Commerce One, Predictive Systems) and channel development initiatives (e.g. for broadband (DSL)).

Identified and divested non-core businesses in value creating transactions, incl. sale of $100+mm lease portfolio for 15% premium and struggling national computer services company for $40mm.
Manager - M&A Accounting

BellSouth

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BLS; Telecommunications industry)

1992 — 1995 (3 years )

Joined this Fortune 100 telecommunications company (local exchange in SE US, national wireless, directory products, internet, business services, and formerly international operations) as my transition out of public accounting.

Initially one of a team of four peers responsible for coordinating and managing multi-disciplinary due diligence teams for corporate transactions in support of the corporate developmeent principal. Also responsible for determining proper accounting for complex corporate transactions including acquisitions, poolings, and joint ventures.

Success and abilities recognized by advancemeent to M&A principal in 1995.
Audit Manager

Deloitte & Touche

(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Accounting industry)

1989 — 1992 (3 years )

Responsible for managing and coaching multiple audit teams simultaneously, each of up to twenty staff; and for providing broad audit-oriented client service to a diverse range of clients in paper and printing, light engineering, retail, and other industries.

Recognized for constructive letters to management, and participated in “businessman’s reviews”, a form of due diligence. Served as continuing professional education director.
Audit Manager

Deloitte Haskins & Sells

(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Accounting industry)

1985 — 1989 (4 years )

My first job out of college; passed all of the Chartered Accountancy exams first time, and promoted audit manager.

Selected in 1989 as one of ten employees among five hundred peers for an international assignment, and transferred to Charlotte for eighteen-month exchange assignment.

Gareth Young’s Education

University of Oxford

1982 — 1985
CPA

1990

Activities and Societies:

Elijah Watt Sells Award
Chartered Accountant

Additional Information

Gareth Young’s Interests:

Kids activities, including math club, cubs, (formerly cubmaster). Walking, hiking, camping, - outdoor activities in general, though I don't have as much time to do them as I'd like. Spirituality, inter-faith, and zen Music, especially opera, (I go to NY and the Met a couple of times a year), current "stuff" like P!nk, 70's progressive rock (I'm catching up on the Who, Emerson Lake and Palmer and the like), The Beatles, classic chamber music, classic rock, and selected rap