Roman BerehulkaRoman Berehulka, CGA, is a degreed accountant and a graduate from the Business Administration Program at Ryerson University, a leading Business school in Canada. He and Schilling met when Schilling was hired by FCI as VP and GM of North American Opertions. Schilling promoted Berehulka to his Director of Finance. They implemented the Team Network, Communication and Internal Control monitoring across the organization. In approximately 13 months their Division in North America was transformed from losing money and being one of the worst operations globally to being the #1 in the world of 20-plus countries. In his role as the Corporate Global Vice President for Internal Audit, Berehulka oversaw all aspects of internal audit for FCI in all business areas globally, managing a remote team and guest auditors from the company. The Team Networking and Communication improvement between operations and finance, along with the operations efficiency improvements, were key to their success. Finally operations and finance spoke the same language, a small investment of effort with high returns! Berehulka is intuitive, results oriented, disciplined, systematic, focused and a precise communicator. He has gained unique domestic and global experience and knowledge during his travels around the world by working in several Fortune 500 organizations, such as Coca Cola, plus a world leading electrical component manufacturer owned by Bain Capital. Berehulka has a solid cost manufacturing and financial accounting background. He developed that skill set in Canada, USA and France. Those skills allowed him to speak fluently with financial personnel as well as with operational personnel. He was able to bridge the communication gap between finance and operations and between head office and global sites, in turn improving productivity and the bottom line. He moved on to become Vice President of Finance with a major corporation where he developed corporate savvy, knowledge and expertise. He implemented a North American shared services for the administration and accounting functions in turn reducing administration costs by approximately $4 million annually. As Chairman of the Pension Committee he implemented a cross-functional team which developed corporate pension policies, ensured compliance with the policies and local regulations. This in turn reduced the financial volatility and liabilities as well as improved equity value by approximately $90 million over six years. Understanding corporate governance, risk management and compliance was a key to his success because that knowledge, plus the cost accounting and communication, landed him a position as Corporate Vice President of Internal Audit. He was effective in creating the audit department and in turn improving global internal controls. As the leader of internal audit and as part of the audit committee he acted as a catalyst for change, helping change the company culture to one of corporate governance compliance. He was also a key player in assisting the organization with due diligence as it related to going public. Having implemented Continuous Internal Control Monitoring (CICM), Continuous Performance Control Monitoring (CPCM) and in turn seeing the remarkable improvement in profitability, operational efficiency, internal control, governance and equity he teamed up with Schilling to we pass on knowledge to allow others have that same success. Read More Read Less