John Fovenesi CPA (johnfovenesi@comcast.net)

John Fovenesi CPA (johnfovenesi@comcast.net)

Fovenesi Corporate Advisors - Leadership, Business Development and Operational Optimization

Greater Detroit Area

Current
  • Director at Fovenesi Corporate Advisors
  • Kitchen Cabinet at OU INCubator
  • Executive Board at Greater Detroit Social Innovators
  • Advisory Boards at Minority Clients - Java Hope, Godspeed, Consider It Done Right, Pro-Tech
  • Co-Founder at Leadership Oakland
Past
  • Director at Fovenesi Corporate Advisots with Propsperitas
  • Director at Fovenesi Corporate Advisors
  • Director of Practice Development at Doeren Mayhew
  • Vice President Operations and CFO at EASi Engineering
  • Partner at Deloitte & Touche
  • CFO and Vice President of Operations at EASi (Allegis)
  • VP OPERATIONS at ESI Group NA (EASI ENGINEERING)
  • Partner at Touche Ross - Deloitte - Deloitte Consulting
  • Partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP, Detroit MI
  • Partner at Touche Ross
  • Partner at Deloitte Consulting
Education
  • Leadership Oakland - Cofounder
  • Leadership Macomb - X
  • Greater Rochester Chamber and Rochester College
  • Leadership Detroit - VIII
  • Eastern Michigan University
  • St. Anthony High School (Detroit East Catholic)
  • St Veronica Elementary School
  • Leadership Oakland
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Management Consulting
Websites

John Fovenesi CPA (johnfovenesi@comcast.net)’s Summary

35 year career Deloitte Touche, Easi and Doeren opportunities in.

- Automotive/ Manufacturing/ Transportation/Dealerships – Chrysler, BMW dealers, bus transportation, FBO, manufacturers – stamping, Mopar parts distribution, tool & die, fastener, coatings;

- Franchise/ Distribution/Retail – Little Caesars, Burger King, American Speedy Printing (Allegra Printing), Two Men and a Truck, Weight Watchers, Coffee Beanery, Stroh’s, Dunlop Golf, Perk & Brew, Costco, Sams. Walmart, Kmart, Sears

- Advertising/Marketing/Publishing/ Printing/ Media – Valassis Inserts ( $ 1B – FSI), PGA Magazine, Cat Companion, Ross Roy

- High Tech – CFO/ VP of Operations for Tier 1 to 20 Global Auto Organizations for CAE, CAD and IT - India, Japan and USA

- Health Care/Insurance/Medical Devices – Henry Ford Health System, HAP, Detroit Medical Center,

- Merger/ Acquisition – Chrysler – all buy/ sells for 13 years, acquisition of sports teams (Orlando Magic, Detroit Tigers), $ 10 M client site staffing business, off-shore India engineering, acquisition of 50% joint venture with JCI

- Technical Staffing/ India based organizations – Mahendra Consulting and Mahendra, Wipro, Infosys, Satyam, Allegis ( US largest IT staffing firm), Altair, Acro, Synova

- Unique/ Traditional Financing Arrangements for start ups to rust belt - from the $ 1.2B "Bail out of Chrysler", to multi -venture capital funding of $ 60M for Vixen Motor Car Co., to going public in India, to homeland security organizations to Governmental funding through Federal appropriations

- High Profile Clients, as a "strategic advisor" for the celebration of the 100 year anniversary of the Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island, including cause related fundraising of over $ 300M, to the Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Tigers, and Orlando Magic.

- Real Estate/ Construction – Trizec Development – US operation – Detroit (office buildings), Ramco Gershenson - $ 1B REIT - US (mall, strip centers), Taubman (tenant audits),

John Fovenesi CPA (johnfovenesi@comcast.net)’s Specialties:

Leadership Development - Detroit, Oakland, Macomb, Rochester
Volunteer - Statue of Liberty – Ellis Island Foundation
• Executive Committee Detroit Venture Network
• Treasurer Rochester Performing Arts Center
• Board Advisor:
o Children’s Tooth Fairy Foundation
o All the World’s a Stage
o Todd Phillips Children Home
•• Oakland University - Kitchen Cabinet Advisory Comt
• President - Eastern Michigan University – Alumni Association
o President - Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce
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John Fovenesi CPA (johnfovenesi@comcast.net)’s Experience

  • Director

    Fovenesi Corporate Advisors

    (Management Consulting industry)

    September 2007Present (1 year 11 months)

    CFO Business Solutions - Director - see website
    Leadership Development:

    - Co-founder of Leadership Oakland - 1,500 participants.
    - Board of Trustees - Leadership Detroit - 2,000 perticipants
    - Leadership Macomb - 300 participants
    - Leadership Rochester - 40 participants
    Business optimization group to:
    - Evaluate and optimize Web 2.0 and 3.0 Strategies for product and services to market using digital marketing
    - Business process enhancement with value added for organizations using Emergency and War Room Strategies and Preventive Medicine approaches for Fiscal Physical Approaches
    - Financing from PE to Hedge Funds, from SBA to Federal Grants
    - Contract CFO services
    - Business Development relationship enhancement
    - Career pathing and business relationship consulting at:
    - Eastern Michigan University
    - University of Michigan - Flint
    - Oakland University
    - Rochester and Clarkston Schools
    - Fee, Commission and Equity arrangements considered
    - Cendrowski Corporate Advsiors and Prosperitas

  • Kitchen Cabinet

    OU INCubator

    (Management Consulting industry)

    2006Present (3 years)

  • Executive Board

    Greater Detroit Social Innovators

    (Management Consulting industry)

    2006Present (3 years)

    I am on the executive board for the Greater Detroit Network for Social Innovators, which brings together more than 70 non-profit organization to discuss initiatives with double and triple bottom line implications. We are a think tank and sounding board for these initiatives.

  • Advisory Boards

    Minority Clients - Java Hope, Godspeed, Consider It Done Right, Pro-Tech

    (Management Consulting industry)

    January 2006Present (3 years 7 months)

    Advisor to a number of minority owned business owners as indicated above. I provide a broad range of services from leadership and business relationship development, to financing and corporate governance.

  • Co-Founder

    Leadership Oakland

    (Management Consulting industry)

    1989Present (20 years)

  • Director

    Fovenesi Corporate Advisots with Propsperitas

    (Management Consulting industry)

    20072009 (2 years)

  • Director

    Fovenesi Corporate Advisors

    (Accounting industry)

    September 20072009 (2 years)

    Cendrowski Corporate Advisors and their affiliates provide people, processes and technology services for family offices and high net worth individuals, Foundations and Nonprofits, Private Equity and Hedge Funds, internal control optimization. litigation support and valuation services

  • Director of Practice Development

    Doeren Mayhew

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Accounting industry)

    September 2005August 2007 (2 years)

  • Vice President Operations and CFO

    EASi Engineering

    (Management Consulting industry)

    19952005 (10 years)

  • Partner

    Deloitte & Touche

    (Management Consulting industry)

    19722005 (33 years)

  • CFO and Vice President of Operations

    EASi (Allegis)

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    June 1995June 2005 (10 years 1 month)

  • VP OPERATIONS

    ESI Group NA (EASI ENGINEERING)

    (Management Consulting industry)

    19952005 (10 years)

  • Partner

    Touche Ross - Deloitte - Deloitte Consulting

    (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

    January 1973June 1995 (22 years 6 months)

    Partner at Deloitte and Touche.

    Had over 200 clients from large public (Chrysler and Kelsey Hayes) to family owned (over 190) from manufacturing, real estate construction, services, franchising, technology based, professional sport teams, media, advesrtising, health care and nonprofits.

  • Partner

    Deloitte & Touche LLP, Detroit MI

    (Management Consulting industry)

    19721995 (23 years)

  • Partner

    Touche Ross

    (Management Consulting industry)

    19721995 (23 years)

  • Partner

    Deloitte Consulting

    (Management Consulting industry)

    19721995 (23 years)


John Fovenesi CPA (johnfovenesi@comcast.net)’s Education

  • Leadership Oakland - Cofounder

    Leadership Oakland - cofounder , Leadership development , 19892008

  • Leadership Macomb - X

    Leadership , Leadership development , 20062007

  • Greater Rochester Chamber and Rochester College

    Leadership , Leadership development , 20052006

  • Leadership Detroit - VIII

    Leadership , Leadership development , 19861987

  • Eastern Michigan University

    BBA , Accounting , 19691973

    Activities: Founding Member of the Annual Accounting and Finance Gathering held for over 30 years in Novemeber

    Alumni Board: Past Preseident and for ten years held various board positions of responsibility

    Advisory Board - Dean of the College of Business - advisory board member to Dean Stu Tubbs

    Advisory Board - Dept of Accounting and Finance - advisory board member.

    Activities and Societies:
    Athletics - EMU Basketball - 1970-1971, Pittman Hall - all men's intramural. Eastern Highlands - all intramral under the Team of NADS

    Academic: Accounting Degree - active Accounting Club
  • St. Anthony High School (Detroit East Catholic)

    High School , College Prep , 19651969

  • St Veronica Elementary School

    High School Prep , 19571965

    Activities and Societies:
    CYO sports, Choir, Captain Safety Patrol Boys, Newspaper Drive
  • Leadership Oakland


Additional Information

John Fovenesi CPA (johnfovenesi@comcast.net)’s Websites:

John Fovenesi CPA (johnfovenesi@comcast.net)’s Interests:

Leadership development, Web 2.0 strategies, business process improvement, knowledge transfer management, golf, basketball, social venture network, real-time monitoring processes

John Fovenesi CPA (johnfovenesi@comcast.net)’s Groups:

Leadeship - Detroit, Oakland, Macomb and Rochester
MACPA, TIE, Automation Alley, OUIncubator, Great Lakes Angels, Eastern Michigan Alumni Association, SBAM, Association for Corporate Growth, Great Lakes Angels, Oakland University - OUIncubator Center, Linked In Arizona, Big 4, Dallas Blue Executive Network, Top Linked.com, Superperformance Group

  •    Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (25,000+ members)
  •    DFW Entrepreneur Network
  •    Ross School of Business Alumni
  •    Human Capital Institute
  •    LinkedSEO
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    LInked Business Strategists
  •    Grameen Foundation
  •    TEN - Top Executives Net
  •    Innovation People Expert Innovators Creative Network
  •    Worldwide Association of Professional Dreamers
  •    ! Sales Best Practices
  •    Expertise for Hire
  •    China Business
  •    SBIR/STTR Participants
  •    For Knowledge Persons
  •    CDN Industry
  •    NetworkingPros
  •    Business 3.0™
  •    BUSINESS IN CHINA
  •    BusinessWeek Group
  •    marzar CEO network
  •    Arizona Professional Networkers
  •    thinktank
  •    Deloitte.
  •    Eastern Michigan University Alumni Association
  •    Motor City Connect
  •    Leading International Open Networkers (LION)
  •    The 4-Hour Academy
  •    Sports Marketing 2.0
  •    GroupLinked.com
  •    The Million Goal
  •    Goodreads
  •    BlackSky
  •    Top Tier Open Networker
  •    Friends of Pangea Day
  •    New York Venture Community
  •    GoBigNetwork Startup Community
  •    InvitesWelcome.com (Open Networkers)
  •    Cocoa Touch - iPhone Technology Users Group
  •    Leadership Detroit Alumni
  •    TopLinked Entrepreneurs
  •    Leadership Oakland
  •    Leadership Macomb
  •    Living In Alternative Reality (L.I.A.R.) for the National Children's Leukemia Foundation (NCLF)

John Fovenesi CPA (johnfovenesi@comcast.net)’s Honors:

EASi - Top 10 supplier to Ford
EASi- Best Places to Work - Crain's 2001 and 2003
EASi - Most Innovative Employer Program - American Society of Employers


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