Karen Booth Adams

Partner

Karen Booth Adams is a partner, investor and advisor at Fahrenheit Finance and several other Richmond-based firms. Karen is a creative visionary and business strategist, benefiting our firm’s growth and our clients’ best interests.

Keith Middleton, CPA

Partner

Keith Middleton is a founding partner of Fahrenheit Finance and brings more than 23 years of corporate finance and public accounting experience with top-tier companies like Performance Food Group, Perdue Farms and Arthur Andersen. Keith leads the firm’s consulting practice and serves as the delivery lead for several clients.

Rich Reinecke

Partner

Rich Reinecke is a founding partner of Fahrenheit Finance and a 15 year recruiting industry veteran.  Rich has a unique blend of large corporate experience and dynamic entrepreneurial spirit.  He works with every level of business, from emerging growth to Fortune 500 companies, and leads the firm’s efforts in client development and recruiting.

Doug Jones, CMA, CFM

Director, Fractional CFO & Controller Services

Doug Jones leads our fractional CFO & controller practice, providing senior financial management services to small and mid size organizations on an “as needed” basis.  In addition to serving his own clients, Doug manages our relationships with companies using other fractional resources on a short term, long term or project basis.  Doug has over 25 years of experience as a CFO with various middle market companies, in addition to experience with several Fortune 500 firms.  Doug holds the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation. Read bio...

Brian Monbouquette, CPA

Director, Fractional CFO and Tax Advisor

Brian Monbouquette has been a financial and tax adviser to businesses and CFO for over thirty years. He spent twenty years at Price Waterhouse, ten as a Partner and has worked with regional public accounting firms as well. Brian is a tax expert and has advised on more than $1.5B of M&A transactions, financings, and numerous public offerings. He has extensive industry exposure in IT, software and the Internet; healthcare and life sciences; manufacturing; and many types of services.  Brian has contributed to numerous financial reporting engagements and supervised countless tax returns while in public accounting. Read bio...

R. David Garlock

Director, Restructuring & Litigation Support

David has more than 30 years of professional experience as a financial executive in corporate finance & accounting and as a restructuring and turnaround advisor. Since 1998, Dave has worked as an interim CFO and financial advisor to medium size businesses as well as distressed or bankrupt companies and liquidating trusts in the healthcare, manufacturing, and retail industries.  He has performed litigation support services and has provided bankruptcy case management services involving Bankruptcy Courts in New York, Texas, Delaware and Virginia over the last 8 years. Read bio...

Fred Kraegel

Sr Dir, Restructuring & Litigation Support

Fred is a senior executive has with over 35 years of experience in a number of companies, many of them involved in a restructuring scenario. He started his career with Peat, Marwick Mitchell & Co, including seven years as an audit partner. Much of his career was serving in senior corporate roles as a President or CFO primarily with financial institution’s and consumer retail companies. Since 2003 he has served as a sr level consultant to organizations going through significant restructuring activities, often in a formal bankruptcy process. Fred has been involved with cases filed in New York City, Chicago IL, Louisville KY, Wilmington DE and Richmond VA as well as other jurisdictions. Read bio...

John Jacoby

Senior Consultant

John Jacoby retired from Deloitte & Touche LLP, where he spent 25 years working with a wide variety of public and privately held companies. John served as an audit partner for clients in various industries including retail and wholesale distribution, manufacturing, government contracting and services; advancing to the level of Managing Partner. John will work on-site with our clients on a project-by-project basis. Primarily, he envisions working with companies that may not have a permanent CFO, that may be preparing to obtain some bank debt or preparing for a public equity offering.

Julie Stepp, CPA

Senior Consultant

Julie Stepp has a unique combination of expertise in financial accounting and financial system implementations and enjoys helping our clients to reach their goals.  She is an expert at implementing new systems, helping  clients use existing systems better and improving processes to be more efficient..   Julie brings to our clients over 22 years of accounting and system implementation experience.   Prior to joining Fahrenheit Finance, Julie spent 18 years at Wyeth in various roles, including implementing and managing several financial systems.

JoAnn Vernacchia, CPA, CPCP

Purchasing Card Solutions Consultant

JoAnn is a senior procurement expert and accounting professional with extensive experience in designing, implementing and managing corporate card solutions.  She has a proven track record for delivering cost savings through process efficiencies and automation, including ERP system integration and implementation of web based platforms throughout the procurement and accounting functions.  JoAnn's key strengths include exceeding business goals, strong financial acumen, commercial card program development, implementation and management, and supplier relationship management.

Chris Kern, CPA

Consultant, Fractional Controller

Chris Kern is a CPA with over 15 years of corporate financial reporting and accounting experience. Her background includes exposure across all areas of accounting including AP, payroll, AR, GL, Fixed Assets including a concentration in financial reporting and analysis, consolidations, financial database management and budgeting. Her experience was acquired from working in corporate accounting at companies ranging from local family owned businesses to international companies in a variety of industries including insurance, telecommunications and financial services.

Amanda McAndrew

Consultant, Fractional Controller

Amanda McAndrew has over 20 years of accounting experience in a wide variety of positions and companies. Her background includes exposure across all areas of accounting including AP, AR, GL, Fixed Assets, Financial Analysis and Reporting. Prior to joining Fahrenheit Finance in 2010, Amanda was the Corporate Controller for a multi-million dollar company with over 20 retail locations.   Additionally, she has experience in both non-profit and for profit enterprises.

Sam Suttle, CPA, CFA

Senior Consultant

Sam Suttle is a financial executive with extensive expertise across the finance and accounting spectrum, including technical accounting research, valuations, financial analysis, risk assessments, project management, and economic research developed through 10 years with Fortune 500 companies and a major international public accounting firm. He enjoys working with clients on forward and strategic thinking, providing results driven analytics, and building trust-based relationships.

Joy Hanner, CPA

Accountant

Joy joined the The Fahrenheit Group in 2011 and is responsible for the accounting, financial analysis, billing and financial reporting for Fahrenheit Finance.  Prior to joining the Fahrenheit team, Joy worked in both public accounting, as well as in a corporate accounting role. Joy graduated from James Madison University in 2008 with a Master's Degree in Accounting.

Bill Gaballah

Bill Gaballah started his career in accounting working with one of the largest financial institutions in our region as an auditor. He then joined KPMG where he continued to learn the fundamentals of what it takes to be a leader in the world of accounting and finance. His career path took a turn when he joined one of the largest accounting and finance recruiting firms in the country before starting his own firm. Bill joined Fahrenheit Finance as Recruiting Manager to help our team continue to build the right skill sets for the engagements we are working on as well as work with our clients in our search and staffing practice.

Angela Li

Resource Manager

Angela Li is the Resource Manager for our team.  Although she has her degree in accounting from the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) she launched her career in recruiting with some of the most prestigious firms in Australia.  Prior to joining our firm she was with Profusion Group, a leading accounting and finance search firm in Sydney, Australia. Angela joined Fahrenheit Finance to help our team continue to source the right skill sets for the consulting engagements we are working on as well as work with our clients in our search and staffing practice.