JACK ALEXANDER

Jack is an experienced CFO and operating executive turned consultant, author, lecturer, and entrepreneur. As the founder of Jack Alexander & Associates, LLC, he provides CFO Advisory Services to businesses across a wide range of financial and operating areas, including Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and Business Performance Management (BPM), Strategy, Shareholder Value, CFO development and performance improvement. The firm also offers customized training and workshops on FP&A. He is a frequent speaker on FP&A and BPM.

Prior to founding the consulting practice, Jack served as CFO of EG&G, Inc. (renamed PerkinElmer), a global $2.5 billion technology and services company with more than 40 operating units, and also as CFO with Mercury Computer Systems. He was previously employed by General Refractories and Coopers & Lybrand.

Jack was a Senior Lecturer in Babson College's MBA program and School of Executive Education. He is a CPA and earned an MBA from Rider University and a BS from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

In addition to the present book, Financial Planning & Analysis and Performance Management, he is the author of Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation (Wiley, 2006).