Diane Wolff
Diane Wolff is a
creative executive with a proven track record of leading
business growth and improving financial results in fast
paced, innovative environments. She is the CEO and Founder
of successful professional services company and former CFO
with extensive experience building infrastructure, raising
capital, managing change and implementing scaleable
procedures and controls. This broad experience includes
businesses ranging from idea stage to multi-million dollar
profitable organizations. Her leadership spans a diverse
set of companies that range from start-up to mature in the
public, private and not for profit sectors in a variety of
industries including technology, consumer, business services
and life sciences. She is organized and detail focused
but can keep it simple with the ability to communicate to
all levels of organization, from loading dock to boardroom.
Wolff has solved problems in troubled organizations and is
a hands on leader adept at cash management, finance, legal,
IT, HR, administration and operations. Operations experience
includes product management, inventory, business
development, sales, marketing and contract structure and
negotiation.
Wolff founded
The Blue Sage Group In 2002 in the wake of the government’s
implementation of The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, Wolff
began to find herself brought into a new realm – a situation
where companies were struggling to comply with a newly
defined set of compliance rules, many times with runaway
budgets. She has applied her financial and business acumen
to developing a new set of tools by which companies can
efficiently and effectively comply, using a Microsoft
Windows platform. Since then she has led multiple
accounting, finance, operations, compliance and IT
engagements. Accomplishments include development of software
that automated business process audits, successful
leadership of private to public company engagements,
restructure and implementation of business systems.
In her previous
position as Vice President of Finance for Genuity, a leading
provider of managed Internet services, Wolff improved gross
margins by 100% in a three year period while revenues grew
to $750 Million. During that period Wolff worked with
cross-functional teams to transform separate and unique
start-up operations with antiquated systems into a unified
organization with streamlined and effective processes and
controls.
Prior to that
Wolff served as Chief Financial Officer and Director of
Operations of ODI, an international management consulting
firm and leader of the TQM movement. In that role Wolff
streamlined systems and processes that resulted in a more
profitable organization.
Wolff graduated
Emerson College and has continued to study, coach and mentor
in a variety of subjects including leadership, finance,
corporate governance, operations, social media and
marketing. Wolff is an acclaimed speaker and writer that
has been featured in national publications like the New York
Times as well as local venues like Center for Women in
Enterprise and The Boston Business Journal. She is a member
of multiple professional organizations and serves on the
finance committee for the Town of Canton.
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