Doug Sanders
Doug is an international finance executive of 14 years living and working in Europe, and over 30 years as a C- suite executive. He has significant experience in the pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical device, and consumer health industries for both large companies and start-ups. Doug has acquired experience through CFO selections in nonprofits, manufacturing, and food distribution. Doug’s strategic, global, and practical view when approaching business challenges allows him to quickly understand complex industries, internal business processes and issues in order to model, influence, lead, reengineer, or improve the financial performance of a company.
Prior to joining CFO Selections, Doug held the CFO role at Integrated Diagnostics, where he managed cash flow during a high growth phase and through three years of constrained cash flow conditions, raised capital, managed debt financing, played a key role in the trade sale of the assets of the company and eventual dissolution of the legal entity. At CMC Biologics (now AGC Biologics) he reengineered the financial close from 15 days to 3 days while improving the quality of the financial data, allowing for the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics.
Doug holds a Master of Business Administration in International Management from Thunderbird Graduate School of Global Management, which is now part of Arizona State University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Economics & Accounting from Gonzaga University. He is also a member of the AICPA and CIGMA.
