Ron Lagraff
Ron comes to CFO Selections with over 20+ years of experience across a range of financial roles, industries, and operating environments. Ron began his journey into the corporate world as a banker who was hired by one of his borrowers in 1995. Ron excels at finding the path to “yes” and has extensive experience moving between operationally tactical work and strategic-level collaboration. At heart, Ron is a consensus builder who excels at building resilient teams and identifying resolutions to policy level and workflow chokepoints. Ron’s background is particularly well-suited to helping organizations nurture and create tools, processes and teams that help companies withstand periods of significant challenges.
Prior to joining CFO Selections, Ron held the CFO role at Pacific Landscape Management, where he managed all facets of accounting, treasury, risk, HR, and IT during a period when the company more than tripled in size, migrated from QuickBooks to Acumatica, and became subject to demanding reporting and covenant requirements. Ron was a key member of the executive team, who helped the founder sell a majority interest to a private equity firm, migrate to an audited entity, and integrate two acquisitions within six months of the private equity transaction. Ron successfully built up the financial team to support the post transaction environment, while mentoring the existing team to successfully manage through a difficult transition.
Ron has an MBA from Arizona State Thunderbird School of Global Management and is a soccer referee with the National Emeritus designation from USSF and NISOA. Ron’s fondest referee memory is officiating a televised match between the Seattle Sounders vs Portland Timbers in a sold-out Providence Park stadium. Ron remains an active administrator and coach of promising soccer officials at all levels of the game and is the President of MISOA, the association providing soccer referees to high schools in the Portland Metro and North Coast areas. Ron is an avid canoeist and in 2023 completed a self-contained 42-day 1,000km expedition in Canada’s Northwest and Nunavut Territories along the Dubawnt and Thelon Rivers.