About

With my broad breadth of functional experience and entrepreneurial spirit, I am passionate about helping organization’s grow through strategy and planning, simplify processes for scale and continuous improvement, and implement business development through M&A and product marketing.

I’ve managed $2B+ budgets, responsible for strategy setting at executive level, drove operational excellence through process simplification and tools automation, acted as subsidiary CFO and led 14+ acquisitions.  I’m passionate around execution, leading strategy direction (business modeling & Board reporting), diving into the details, and leveraging my strength in collaboration by being a trusted and reliable value-add business partner, bringing integrity, insight, data, and energy to the team.  

I’ve managed global teams of 20-35 people, encouraging through vision, setting impactful goals, focused on the team, while growing each person’s capabilities by providing continuous feedback and coaching.

I welcome the opportunity to discuss, in further detail, how my skills would contribute to the further success of your organization and hope we can arrange a mutually convenient time for us to meet.

John D. Kennedy

Key Skills

  • Financial Management
  • P&L | IT Management
  • Process Improvements
  • Business Strategy
  • Budgeting/Cost Controls
  • Change Management
  • Business Development
  • Staff Management
  • Program Management
  • Project Management
  • Mergers/Acquisitions
  • Cross-Functional Partnership

Focus areas and delivered work at Apple, Cisco, Intel and Kaiser Permanente:

Finance Leadership, Planning & Forecasting

  • Executive Leadership (Analytics, Strategy Setting, Collaboration, & Influencing)
  • FP&A Management/Governance/Compliance of $2B+ Opex/Capital Budgets
  • Subsidiary CFO for German and US entities related to Acquisition integration and manufacturing.
  • MBA from Santa Clara University and BS major, Statistics & BA minor, Bus Admin from U.C. Berkeley

Business Development And Strategy

  • Chief of Staff imbuing teams with purpose to drive productivity, consistency and measurable results.
  • Led 14 Corporate Acquisitions’ due diligence, deal closing activities and drove Financial Integrations.
  • Integration activities include PPA, intercompany accounting, tax sharing agreements, entity consolidations, ERP consolidations, cash management, US GAAP and statutory reporting.
  • Monetized Service & Support org creating marketing plan and delivering consumer driven products.
  • Start-up Advisor: Founding CFO at CarLogik, Inc., Advisor to CyChain, DarkSeer & Cloudastructure.

Operational Excellence | Process Re-engineering

  • Transformational (Culture of Continuous Improvement, Simplification and Scale).
  • Implemented electronic Procure to Pay and TEMs (Telecom Expense Mgmt) Software.
  • Implemented Vendor e-Billing and Case Management for Legal patent and litigation groups.
  • Vendor management conducting QBR (quarterly business reviews), contract negotiations and RFPs.
  • IT Process Standardization (deploying ServiceNow, Service Costing, Service Catalog & Roadmaps).