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Cyndy A.G. Lowery

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Cyndy Lowery is a director and an owner of Warren Whitney. Primarily working with clients requiring accounting and financial management, she offers more than 25 years of experience in both public accounting and private industry.

Management Experience:

Cyndy generally takes the role of CFO with her clients. She has helped her clients establish a budgeting process and evaluate and improve operating strategies including changes in procedures and policies both to improve the quality of customer service and to reduce overall cost. She has developed financial information packages and met with lenders on her clients’ behalf to obtain favorable financing. Additionally, she routinely meets with her clients’ other professional advisors, including attorneys, accountants, consultants, and bankers, to ensure that the appropriate information is communicated.

Cyndy works with her clients to design and implement the appropriate systems of internal controls. She then monitors the systems to ensure that they meet the needs of the client without creating unnecessary work or paper. She works to ensure the timely and accurate reporting of internal management information as well as monthly financial statements. She also works closely with the management team, helping them interpret the numbers.

Forensics Experience:

Cyndy’s forensics experience began with the charge to recreate records destroyed by a flood in the 1980’s and has developed over the years as she has served clients in the midst of legal battles and recovering from employee fraud and embezzlement. She uses her experience from having installed dozens of accounting systems and creating systems of internal controls to detect and correct errors and protect the integrity of the financial records.

Prior to joining Warren Whitney, Cyndy worked in both public accounting with Deloitte & Touche where she became a Certified Public Accountant, and in private industry.

Education and Professional Associations:

Cyndy attended Virginia Tech for two years where she was a Marshall Hahn merit scholar, and she holds a BS in Accounting from Virginia Commonwealth University. She also has a Masters of Divinity in Biblical Counseling from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Biblical Counseling from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. For many years she served on the board of the Hanover Business Council and the Cold Harbor Elementary School PTA, and she currently serves her church in the role of treasurer .

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Jun 28
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Scott R. Warren

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Scott Warren is a co-founder and director of Warren Whitney and a senior member of the management teams of a select number of the firm’s clients. Working primarily with clients requiring senior level business, financial management, or systems expertise, he brings over 20 years of experience in helping organizations manage change.

Management Experience:

Scott generally serves Warren Whitney’s clients in the role of CFO or assistant to the president. As CFO, he is responsible for banking relations, financial systems, and general management decisions made for the company. As assistant to the president, his responsibilities include working with the management team to define and implement corporate strategies.

The work Scott has done with one of his clients illustrates the scope of his roles. When he started working with the company, he implemented a job cost accounting system and worked with the managers to help them understand the effect that their project management efforts had on the profitability of each job and, ultimately, on the profits of the company.

Scott has helped the same company more than double in size in two years. In addition to natural growth, the company has acquired other companies and has started a subsidiary. Scott was responsible for the financial analysis of these strategic business decisions and for working with the company’s attorney, tax advisor, and banker to complete the transactions. He then worked to integrate the new entities into the culture and systems of the company.

Scott has been instrumental in redesigning and upgrading many clients’ information systems. He was involved in defining, acquiring, developing, and installing systems ranging in scope from general accounting applications to sophisticated cost accounting, CAM, and management information systems. He helps clients define and implement systems that meet their management needs, not just their data needs, and he has the ability to train an organization’s personnel and explain the processes to them in a way they can understand.

Prior to forming Warren Whitney, Scott was the partner in charge of the Virginia consulting department for McGladrey & Pullen, a national accounting and consulting firm. He expanded the concentration of his regional consulting department from primarily data processing consulting to include strategic planning, financial management, marketing, human resources, telecommunications, and disaster recovery planning. The expansion tripled the size of the practice and broadened the service area to include the Shenandoah Valley, Tidewater, and Northern Virginia. As partner in charge of practice development for the Richmond office, Scott was responsible for marketing all the services offered by McGladrey & Pullen, including audit and tax, and for coordinating the use of regional and national consulting services.

Scott has worked in many different industries, including construction, manufacturing, marketing, distribution, real estate, not-for-profit, and healthcare. He consistently uses his broad range of experience to develop creative ideas and solutions for his clients.

Education and Professional Associations:

Scott earned an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BS in Business from the University of Delaware. He holds a CPA Certificate in Virginia and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants. He serves on the board of the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce, Richmond History Center, and Willow Oaks Country Club, and is a past president of the Bull & Bear Club. Scott is also active in the Association for Corporate Growth.

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Apr 21
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Debra J. Angstadt

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In her over 16 years with the firm, Deb Angstadt has performed a wide variety of work for clients, from CEO of successful turnaround situations to strategic management roles involving business expansions and restructurings, operations, finance, human resources, and information technology. A large portion of her work has leveraged her background in sales and marketing, where she is comfortable with both formulating the plan or vision as well as performing the hands-on implementation. Just like the business owners and executives she works beside, Deb’s focus is always on results, whether it is creating lifts in revenues, trimming excess costs, launching a new initiative, or restructuring to fit changing times.

Management Experience:

During her tenure with Warren Whitney, Deb has served more than 25 clients across 14 industries, including start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, as well as nonprofits. Her assignments have ranged from several months to, in some cases, a few years, and have included work as varied as successfully turning an unprofitable company into a profitable one, to helping to evaluate international locations for new facilities; and developing and launching new products through national distribution, to building fundamental sales metrics and discipline into a company’s culture.

Apart from Warren Whitney, Deb’s experience includes roles as CEO of a mortgage company and a title company, as well as executive sales and marketing positions in the student loan industry, and overseeing the delivery of loan insurance, secondary market, and servicing products. She was also vice president and division head of a full-service advertising and public relations firm. She began her career in banking.

Education and Professional Associations:

Deb holds an MBA from the University of Richmond and a BBA from the College of William and Mary. She served as the Program Chair for the Greater Richmond Technology Council for three years and was board member of her homeowner’s associations for 12 years, including six years as treasurer. She is a former member of the Board of Directors for Gateway Homes of Greater Richmond, a nonprofit organization serving people with intellectual disabilities. She has also served the Richmond United Way effort in a number of capacities and provided numerous volunteer hours to the Greater Richmond Chapter of the American Red Cross.

 

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