{"id":1122,"date":"2013-04-04T23:55:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T23:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kriesi.at\/themes\/enfold\/?page_id=1122"},"modified":"2014-05-19T22:45:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T22:45:29","slug":"pages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kwtkcfo.net\/?page_id=1122","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='layer_slider_1'  class='avia-layerslider main_color avia-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  container_wrap sidebar_right' style='  height: 151px;' ><\/div><div id='after_layer_slider_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1122'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><div style=\"margin-top: -55px; margin-left: 35px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2328\" src=\"https:\/\/kwtkcfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BAR_NEW.png\" alt=\"free\" width=\"961\" height=\"68\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"boxy\" style=\"height: 50px; text-align: center; width: 800px; margin-left: 80px; color: #fdcc51;\">\n<div style=\"margin-top: -5px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><em> &#8221; Paving your ROED to maximum shareholder value&#8230;<\/em> <span style=\"vertical-align: super; font-size: 60%; color: #fdcc51;\">TM<\/span> &#8220;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:0px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h3    avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Kevin W.T. Kroft, C.A.<\/h3><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><div style=\"width: 950px; margin-left: 25px;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 30px; paidding-bottom: -25px;\">After spending over twenty-four (24) years serving as CFO, owner and\/or a board member of companies with operations in the USA, Hong Kong, China, Australia and New Zealand, Kevin decided to pursue his long-held aspiration of launching his own consultancy business through which he could serve a diverse range of small to medium-sized clients on an independent contractor basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"boxy\">\n<div style=\"float: left; position: relative; width: 308px; margin-right: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kwtkcfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/kevin.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; position: relative; width: 600px;\">\n<p>\u201cKevin is a natural leader and team player who has played critical management roles in the three successful companies in which we worked together. Having worked with him for over 10 years, I can say he effectively works closely with all functional departments of the organization. Kevin is highly adept in all his business relationships, whether dealing with the board of directors, the company&#8217;s CEO, an investment bank in an M&amp;A transaction, his senior management colleagues or his own Finance team members.In my 42 years working as a business partner, owner and senior executive, I could not provide a more superlative recommendation for Kevin Kroft &#8211; he is simply the best!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-Robert A. Beilin<br \/>\nModern Terminals Limited, Hong Kong (S.A.R.), Corporate Finance &#8211; International Business Development<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 30px; paidding-bottom: -25px;\">Throughout his career, Kevin has acquired an abundance of domestic and international experience in creating businesses from only a concept; successfully launching new businesses; accounting and financial reporting systems development, implementation and management; senior management team leadership; strategic planning; project management; corporate governance; cost containment; risk identification and management, M&amp;A activities; shareholder reporting and board of directors participation in profitable, dynamic and growth-oriented Total Quality Management work environments.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"boxy\" style=\"height: 230px;\">\n<div style=\"float: left; position: relative; width: 308px; margin-right: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kwtkcfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/kevin5.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; position: relative; width: 600px;\">\n<p>&#8220;Working closely with Kevin for over ten (10) years, I can wholeheartedly say he consistently demonstrated the highest level of personal integrity and professional competence &#8211; fulfilling the vital senior management role CFO \u2013 contributing greatly in the growth and success of the company by forming and leading a world-class global Finance Team, providing timely, accurate and meaningful financial reporting and playing a leading role in orchestrating two (2) successful company sale transactions which enabled the founding shareholders to realize a tremendous financial return on their investment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Michael J. Beard, former CEO Australia-New Zealand Direct Line<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 30px; paidding-bottom: -25px;\">Kevin\u2019s customized approach to evaluating each owner&#8217;s and each business&#8217;s unique needs and requirements always &#8220;begins with the end in mind\u201d such that he makes certain he fully understands the owner&#8217;s short, medium AND long-term goals and objectives before attempting to solve problems and\/or create solutions. As he states, &#8220;the financial reporting requirements for a mature, closely-held company that will ultimately be handed-down to a family heir will clearly be different than those required for an ambitious start-up company with IPO aspirations.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"boxy\" style=\"height: 60px;\">\n<div>\u201cKevin\u2019s customized approach to evaluating each owner&#8217;s and each business&#8217;s unique needs and requirements always &#8216;begins with the end in mind.&#8217; \u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 30px; paidding-bottom: -25px;\">Working closely with the business owner(s) and their key finance and operating personnel, Kevin will first listen intently to YOUR expressed business needs and challenges. Depending upon what issues YOU have identified and described, he will either immediately commence his work towards achieving the stated &#8220;business needs&#8221; and\/or methodically working-through the perceived &#8220;challenges,&#8221; or, in the event further research, analysis and evaluation is required, he will continue working with you and your team towards the goal of achieving a clear and comprehensive understanding of what are the top-priority issues to be addressed and\/or key improvements required to achieve the owner&#8217;s stipulated short, medium AND long-term goals and objectives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 30px; paidding-bottom: -25px;\">Once agreement has been achieved on what the &#8220;top-priority issues&#8221; and\/or &#8220;key improvements&#8221; for the business are, Kevin&#8217;s approach is to continue working closely with the company&#8217;s existing staff resources to methodically achieve their realization through continual &#8220;teaching, coaching, guiding and encouraging&#8221; as it is always his own expressed objective to leave the company&#8217;s existing staff resources fully-trained and capable of managing the new business process(es) and\/or system(s.) Says he: &#8220;I see myself as being hired to &#8220;teach the existing accounting\/finance staff how to fish&#8221; so that they can continue nourishing the wellness of the company long-after I&#8217;ve departed!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-bg-style-scroll  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last   container_wrap sidebar_right' style='background-color: #295987;  '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1122'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center; color: #f4ca30;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #f4ca30;\">Kevin is available now for independent contractor consulting engagements on a<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #f4ca30;\"> temporary, part-time or project basis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #fff;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #fff;\">&#8220;Call Kevin when you need a CFO but you only have an accountant!!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #fff;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 28px; color: #fff;\">1-714-244-5125<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1122'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwtkcfo.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwtkcfo.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwtkcfo.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwtkcfo.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kwtkcfo.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":122,"href":"https:\/\/kwtkcfo.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/kwtkcfo.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kwtkcfo.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}