Jeff Burkland

Jeff Burkland has over 20 years of business experience in both strategic and tactical financial roles, building financial models, performing financial analysis and fund raising as well as in operational roles, scaling operations and leading marketing and product management efforts. Jeff’s past strategic finance roles for start up and growth companies include: • Successful financial guidance of a SaaS company in the online gaming space from 7 people and seed funding through 100 people and Series B growth capital. • Pre- and Post- Series A support and business scaling for a marketing analytics company. • Critical financial modeling and other support for the Series B raise of a SaaS provider in the Consumer Packaged Goods and retailer space. • Financial modeling, fund raising, and general Executive advice for a social networking startup. • Strategic Finance advisory support for a clean energy equipment developer. • Board member for a digital film storage startup. • S-1 filing and offering, in addition to all other CFO support, for medical device company. • Critical business plan formation and development for IMPACT, an e-learning provider. • Cash management, Business model development and organizational planning and analysis as CFO for CRC Results, an Internal Audit consulting company. • Startup investor. Jeff has led Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 efforts for several large- and small-cap clients. Jeff’s prior full-time roles include one at UTStarcom, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer, where he was a key member of a small team responsible for extending the company’s presence outside of China. Through the team’s efforts, the company gained significant awareness and top market share. Jeff designed, with direct customer involvement, a wireless business financial model capable of variable levels of detail. This model helped customers understand the return on investment of various marketing budgets, tariff plans, network deployment options, and subscriber levels. At Zhone Technologies, Jeff ran tactical segment marketing for the 500-person telecom equipment manufacturer. He prepared several board-level market-assessment presentations, developed and executed sales promotions, and interfaced with research analysts. Jeff began his career at AT&T, where he was selected to the company’s Fast Track Program. In one role at AT&T, he grew a $4 million business within AT&T by more than 50% per year.

Staying active. Exercise. Taking time out. Snowboarding. Growing my business.

Finance, Startups, Entrepreneurship