Finance and accounting operations
10 corporate controllership experts
These ten accounting leaders have held corporate controllership roles inside operating companies, including corporate controller and assistant corporate controller positions. A reader can learn how in-house controllership teams run the close, consolidations and external financial reporting.
Professionals to explore
01—10Ashish Agarwal
LinkedInExperience: Assistant Corporate Controller & Senior Director - Financial and SEC Reporting · Kimberly-Clark
Assistant Corporate Controller & Senior Director - Financial and SEC Reporting at Kimberly-Clark since 2025, a role the profile says provides enterprise leadership across external financial reporting, SEC compliance and technical accounting. Former Senior Director, Assistant Controller - Global Controls and Accounting (2022–2025) and Asia Pacific Region Controller (2020–2022) at Kimberly-Clark.
Courtney Zeppetella
LinkedInExperience: VP, Corporate Controller · SpaceX
VP, Corporate Controller at SpaceX since 2024. Former Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (2022–2024), a role the profile describes as a senior finance leader for corporate accounting and operations accounting. Former Audit Partner at KPMG (2012–2022).
Crena Solop
LinkedInExperience: Assistant Corporate Controller · ADC Therapeutics
Assistant Corporate Controller at ADC Therapeutics since September 2026, a role the profile describes as overseeing the end-to-end accounting and financial reporting process, including period-end close, consolidations, general ledger management and accounts payable, and leading the technical accounting and SEC/external financial reporting functions. Former Senior Director, Technical Accounting & External Reporting at ADC Therapeutics (2024–2026).
Justin Novotney, CPA
LinkedInExperience: Corporate Controller · MacLean-Fogg
Corporate Controller at MacLean-Fogg since 2023. At Stericycle, this person was Director Corporate Reporting and Consolidations (2022–2023), Senior Manager Reporting and Consolidations (2021–2022) and Director Corporate FP&A (2023), and the profile mentions responsibility for the oversight of accounting operations at Stericycle.
Lisa Walter, CPA
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Corporate Controller, CAO · WK Kellogg Co
Vice President, Corporate Controller, CAO at WK Kellogg Co since 2023. The profile also lists Vice President, Corporate Controller at Kellogg Company (2023) and at Arrival (2022–2023), and Assistant Corporate Controller at Whirlpool Corporation (2018–2022).
Luke O'Rourke, CPA
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Corporate Controller · Vontier
Former Senior Director, Corporate Controller (2025–2026) and Director, Corporate Controller (2024–2025) at Vontier, and Group Controller, Corporate & DRB there since 2026. Also former Director, Financial Reporting & Consolidations at Vontier (2022–2023). The profile lists SEC filing work on a $4 billion all-stock merger and a $3 billion international acquisition.
Malia Gelfo
LinkedInExperience: SVP, Corporate Controller · Neighborly®
SVP, Corporate Controller at Neighborly® since 2024. Former Chief Accounting Officer at Likewize (2023–2024), VP, Corporate Controller at Reece USA (2019–2023) and Corporate Controller at FleetPride (2012–2016). The profile describes directing general and inventory accounting, payroll, cash management, financial reporting and close functions, and monitoring accounting policy and internal controls for compliance with U.S. GAAP.
Robb Royse
LinkedInExperience: VP, Corporate Controller · Benchmark
VP, Corporate Controller at Benchmark since 2022, and former VP, Assistant Corporate Controller at Benchmark (2019–2022). The profile describes Benchmark as providing engineering design and manufacturing services across the product life cycle. Former Director, Financial Planning & Analysis and Reporting at Dermavant Sciences, an Organon company (2018–2019), and Senior Manager at EY (2004–2018).
Sharease Flores, CPA, MBA
LinkedInExperience: Director and Controller of Global Accounting · Beyond
Director and Controller of Global Accounting at Beyond since 2021, where the profile says this person reduced the month-end close from 14 days to 5 days, oversees global consolidations, intercompany transactions and subsidiary funding structures, and manages the external audit process. Former Assistant Controller (2019–2021) and US Controller (2021) at Emarsys.
Theresa Lavelle Brainerd
LinkedInExperience: Corporate Controller · Panduit
Corporate Controller at Panduit since 2025. Former Global Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer at Century Aluminum (2023–2025) and Corporate Controller at S&S Activewear (2022–2023). At Atkore, this person was Controller, Security SBU (2020–2022) and Senior Manager Technical Accounting and External Reporting (2018–2020).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's setting to yours, since controllership at a public company with SEC reporting differs from controllership at a private or sponsor-backed business. Also decide whether your question is mainly about the close process, consolidation across entities or technical accounting and audit, and pick someone whose roles centered on that work.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How did you shorten the monthly close, and which changes made the biggest difference?
- 02How do you structure consolidation and intercompany accounting across many legal entities?
- 03What should a controller have in place before the company's first external audit or SEC filing?
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