MEET OUR TEAM

Founder

Mike Temple

Realizing small to mid-sized companies often need the expertise of a chief financial officer but cannot afford the financial investment it takes to hire a quality full-time CFO, Mike founded PlusPoint Consulting in 2010.

Mike has been helping companies successfully plan and manage growth for more than 20 years as CFO, COO, or CEO. His reputation as a mentor and leader has spanned industry segments including medical devices, hi-tech, manufacturing, sporting goods and more. Business planning, financial analysis, strategic development as well as team development are what drive him the most.

CEO and Partner

Kari Minton, CPA (Washington)

Kari is an executive leader who has the super power to take a vision and make it a reality through sound strategy development. A seasoned CFO and Operational executive, Kari is known for her tenacity and passion for building teams and processes that drive growth, build values, achieve business outcomes, and deliver on strategic goals. As CEO of PlusPoint, she intuitively sees opportunities in organizations and  is able to help others embrace the vision and drive results.

After spending over 30 years leading strategic initiatives, driving process improvement, fundraising, solving business problems and positioning finance as a strategic partner in growing companies, across industries that include healthcare services, software-as-a-service, manufacturing, distribution and more, Kari understands how to navigate the joys and pitfalls of a growing organization. This is demonstrated by her success in helping secure millions of dollars in growth funding, guiding the organizational change necessary to achieve a significant financial turnaround, driving dramatic improvement in an underperforming customer service organization, and leading the financial efforts to close 11 strategic acquisitions and 3 public offerings within a 2-year window. Her passion lies in leveraging these experiences to help organizations thrive and build something meaningful and enduring.

Kari is a faithful 49er and SF Giants fan. Baseball is her favorite season, and one day she hopes to say she has seen the Giants play in every major ballpark, which explains her love of traveling. She balances her working hours by spending time with family and friends, fitness and boating in the summer months.

Kari – what makes you, you?

“I have an enduring belief in myself and the people around me. I am resilient, adaptable, determined and willing to take risk to achieve meaningful goals.”

The PlusPoint Core Value Neil  Aligns With Most Is:

 Meeting Clients Where They Are

Consulting CFO / COO

Ted Allen

Known as an accomplished, strategically focused operations and finance executive and business coach, Ted has held various CFO and COO positions with software, technology, higher education and services organizations. He partners with companies to establish valuable improvements in business and finance operations, systems and organizational structure, and has a solid track record of transitioning organizations through growth.

Ted’s discernment once helped guide an $80million business from the brink of financial disaster to become a growing, thriving and profitable entity…evidence that as a solutions-oriented leader, he thrives on taking on challenges and problem solving with clients to get to the root cause of issues.  

Ted is a man who loves to reach new heights. In fact, he’s reached the summit of two of the three highest mountains in Oregon. His love of the outdoors is where you’ll find him hiking, mountain biking, kayaking and snow shoeing with his family.

Ted, what makes you, you?

“I am a problem solver and I thrive on challenges.”

The PlusPoint Core Value Ted Aligns With Most Is:

 Meeting Clients Where They Are

Consulting CFO

Stacey Lee

Stacey is a CFO professional with expertise in financial operations, profit and loss accountability and merger and acquisitions. She guides clients in all areas of financial management from forecasting to reporting structures, contract negotiations, and raising capital.

When Stacey sees something that’s not working, she can’t help herself – she has to dig in and see if she can find a solution. This explains how her diligence once helped turn around a company suffering from significant losses to 20% EBITDA year over year.

Outside of PlusPoint, she loves to spend time traveling and with family. She’s also a card player and was the Golden Hammer award winner for a cribbage table she once made.

Stacey, what makes you, you?

“I’m client focused. I’m a problem solver, a quick study, and I look for practical solutions.”

The PlusPoint Core Value Stacey Aligns With Most Is:

 Meeting Clients Where They Are

Consulting Senior Controller

Kendra Toop

Kendra has been successfully providing oversight and leading accounting teams for nearly 20 years. She has deep experience in managing the full spectrum of finance and accounting functions and system implementations for many companies including Airship and Pixelworks.

Having played a key role running her family business growing up, it’s no wonder Kendra is on a mission to have a positive impact with clients overcome their challenges by creating a financial roadmap and get them the data, analysis, and insights needed to make sound business decisions.

Outside of the office, Kendra enjoys reading, yoga, skiing, women’s soccer and outdoor activities.

Kendra, what makes you, you?

“I do what I say .”

The PlusPoint Core Value Kendra Aligns With Most Is:

 Meeting Clients Where They Are

Senior Financial Analyst

Neil Elder

A self-described problem solver and Excel ninja, Neil is a senior financial analyst who is passionate about finding practical solutions to complex problems.  He is recognized for bringing clients delight by delivering to them the data and financial analysis they need to make better decisions, and being able to forecast using his kick-ass financial models.

Neil once took a client from a 5 hour close process and condensed it to 15 minutes utilizing his experience in process improvement and business systems.

Outside of work, you can usually find Neil watching sports, traveling or enjoying good cuisine.

Consulting Controller

Elisabeth DeWhitt

Elisabeth has led an impressive career as a leader in corporate finance, risk management and purchasing departments in her 20+ years working in the manufacturing, logistics and wood products industries. Her previous in-house experience spanning from Controller to CFOs has been critical in helping multiple companies with corporate acquisitions.

Her critical thinking skills and problem-solving attitude serve her well in her diligence to help clients implement and optimize business systems and processes. Known to many as a mentor, she is an expert with developing policies, implementing systems and establishing financial reporting.

It’s no wonder that Elisabeth knows how to juggle. Aside from that, she is also skilled at golf and sewing and loves spending time with her family.

Elisabeth, what makes you, you?

“I am a lifelong learner and enjoy improving skills that can help me in my personal and professional lives.”

The PlusPoint Core Value Elisabeth Aligns With Most Is:

 Creating Opportunities

Consulting Assistant Controller

Emily Liebler

Emily’s passion for accounting can be traced back to Pricewaterhouse Coopers, where she spent four years as a Senior Associate and Auditor. She is an experienced Controller who has a super power in helping clients establish efficient processes for basic accounting functions and implement and optimize business systems.

When not busy helping clients at PlusPoint, she keeps very busy volunteering in her community and children’s activities as a coach, statistician, costume designer and cheerleader.

Emily, what makes you, you?

“I’m very diligent, hard working and organized in all areas of my life. I am a fast learner and am driven to attain goals.”

The PlusPoint Core Value Emily Aligns With Most Is:

Bringing Your Best Every Day

Senior Digital Operations Consultant

Stuart Bell

Stuart combines a strong finance, accounting and operations acumen with experience configuring, deploying and supporting technology such as NetSuite, Axiom, SQL Server, Tableau, and Intacct.  Stuart enjoys defining a problem and leveraging his skills to develop an efficient and flexible solution.

Stuart, what makes you, you?

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The PlusPoint Core Value Neil Aligns With Most Is:

Consulting Controller

Josh Howard

Josh thrives on helping businesses understand their numbers so they can understand their business. He uses his skills in FP&A, finance and accounting to help clients tell stories with numbers and propel them to greater results. Gifted at helping “non-numbers people” understand their numbers, he is passionate about establishing processes and reporting to provide insight on how performance measures against plan, and knowing the health of the business.

Josh’s experience spans across multiple industries including nonprofit, finance and manufacturing. As a navy veteran, he learned discipline and hard work, and still gets up every day at 4:30 am to work out!  

Josh, what makes you, you?

“I am gritty and constantly striving to achieve goals.”

The PlusPoint Core Value Josh Aligns With Most Is:

 Cultivating relationships

Consulting Accountant

Diane Hailey

Diane comes to us from South Africa, where she studied at University of Cape Town to earn her degree in accounting with specialty in financial reporting. She is a skilled auditor and accountant with exceptional attention to detail. She uses her out-of-the-box thinking skills to bring clients efficiency in key areas, such as shortening the “close” process.

She brings clients international experience, an understanding of international financial reporting standards and speaks three languages. She is also a skilled chess player and loves to volunteer.

Diane, what makes you, you?

“I love trying new experiences and am self driven.”

The PlusPoint Core Value Diane Aligns With Most Is:

 Creating Opportunities

Skills:

Accounting
Financial Reporting

Systems & Technology:

Excel
CaseWare Software
Expensify
NetSuite
Concur