Jody A. Ruth, CEO — CPA, NACD.DC
Jody A. Ruth is a trusted advisor, seasoned board member, and C-Suite mentor. She is recognized for her distinguished career spanning finance, technology, and operations. Known for her integrity, ethics, candor, and consensus building, she is an experienced independent director and audit and financial expert for public and private companies, including not for profit organizations. In this time of ever-accelerating technological change, Ms. Ruth consults with leading financial executives to drive business transformations that jump start productivity and grow America’s economy.
As a board member, Ms. Ruth provides guidance for fiduciary duty, strategic planning, shareholder engagement, change management, financial best practices, and performance metrics. She has a keen focus on building sustainable, scalable infrastructure, providing guidance for boards and C-Suites how to manage cash flow to enable companies to scale to the next level or prepare for acquisition.
To build company value—in any economy—Ms. Ruth leverages a proven track record in M&A, capital transactions, restructuring, financial reporting, and technology development. Ms. Ruth’s comprehensive professional experience includes in-house CFO; fractional, outsourced CFO; former Chief Accounting Officer of a major airline; and head of internal audit for a Fortune 45 multinational telecom. Ms. Ruth currently serves as CFO to several middle-market growth clients, including professional service firms, technology (cyber, Fintech, and product) and telecom companies, as well as privately held holding companies.
As a business mentor, Ms. Ruth provides C-level executive coaching, one-on-one or with teams. In her coaching, Jody brings a long-standing track record of achieving financial and operational success to the C-Suite, enabling clients to proactively bring opportunities to the surface and create action plans to achieve operating and financial goals.
Ms. Ruth, a sought after paid speaker and frequent facilitator for business roundtables, is recognized for her leadership in building company value. She addresses financial best practices, strategic CFOs, action steps for achieving goals and targets, and optimizing exit value. Ms. Ruth also provides valuable insights into the effective use of performance metrics and propelling financial and operational performance through strategic initiatives. She energizes and inspires groups with lively audience interaction through case studies and real-time brainstorming; audiences take away real-world action steps that they can immediately implement.
