Senior Team

Timothy P. Czmiel, Co-Founder 

Tim is a Co-founder of Virtas Partners. He is focused primarily on performance improvement. Over the past 30 years, Timothy has served as the Financial Advisor, CEO, and CRO for numerous private equity-backed and privately-held companies. Former partner and Midwest practice leader of Corporate Recovery Services for a national accounting/consulting firm. He holds an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and was awarded a Certificate in Advanced Strategy from INSEAD Euro-Asian Centre in Fontainebleau, France. He is a Certified Turnaround Professional, has been awarded the Turnaround Management Association National “Turnaround of the Year Award,” and has served as a Board Member of the Association of Certified Turnaround Professionals.

Neal McNamara, Chief Executive Officer

Neal is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Virtas Partners. Prior to founding Virtas, Neal led the Accounting Advisory Services business for KPMG.

Neal has supported private equity firms and corporations across the ownership lifecycle for more than 25 years. Mandates have included separation/divestiture planning, negotiation, and execution (including numerous spin-off and corporate divestitures), carve-out financial statement preparation, IPO preparation and execution, finance transformation, interim CFO and restructuring under Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Michael C. Bellach, Managing Director and Northeast Leader

Mike is a Managing Director in the firm’s New York Metro office and is responsible for growing the firm’s client service in the Northeast.

Mike joined Virtas after more than 20 years at a Big 4 accounting firm, including nearly ten years as a partner where he served the critical needs of public, private and emerging companies. He is deeply technical across accounting, finance and M&A issues that are critical to Virtas’ clients, including technical accounting interpretation and adoption, restatements, carve-outs, internal controls and financial system implementation. Mike has operated across a variety of industries including industrial manufacturing, consumer products, retail, life sciences, technology and media.

Jennifer Fondrevay, Managing Director

Jennifer leads the Human Capital service offering within the firm’s Integration & Separation practice. She advises the firm’s clients to proactively address issues related to culture, change management, onboarding and offboarding, and communications. The founder of Day1 Ready LLC, Jennifer has advised senior leadership of numerous Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and small businesses in executing growth strategies. As a former C-Suite executive who led teams during three separate multi-billion-dollar acquisitions, her focus is in ensuring the people component – such as culture, engagement and talent retention — remains a focus of M&A due diligence and integration planning.

Following three years of research, including 60+ executive interviews, Fondrevay authored the 2019 best-selling M&A book, NOW WHAT? A Survivor’s Guide for Thriving through Mergers and Acquisitions, Jennifer frequently shares her expertise as a contributor to Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Inc., Forbes and Thrive Global; is a sought-after podcast guest and keynote speaker for associations, conferences and companies, including Express Scripts, Livongo and Teladoc, helping leadership navigate the emotional journey of business transitions and post M&A-deal integration.

Greg Meseck, Managing Director

Greg is a Managing Director within the firm’s Integration & Separations practice. He primarily focuses on supporting corporate clients with carve-outs, divestitures and spin-offs and private equity clients acquiring carve-outs. He joined the firm with more than 30 years of experience in M&A consulting and corporate strategy. Prior to joining Virtas, he was a Managing Director in the Strategy & Transactions practice at EY, where he served a number of multinational clients on buy-side and sell-side transactions.

Craig Pace, Managing Director

Craig serves as a Managing Director within the firm’s Performance Improvement practice. He has proven expertise in helping underperforming businesses through crises, transitions, and financings in a wide range of sectors including technology, manufacturing and packaged foods.

He has exceptional experience in guiding under-performing businesses to restored profitability, including in interim management roles. Craig also has a successful track record in delivering value in exits and financings for both performing organizations and distressed assets, including arranging financings for storied credits.

Ofri Porat, Managing Director

Ofri holds over 20 years of success helping clients with buy-side and sell-side transactions. He has led multiple projects where he oversaw the IMO, functional integration planning and synergy realization across all functional areas. Porat also has deep experience and expertise in M&A and sell-side due diligence, divestiture/separation planning, and all Office of the CFO disciplines. He started his career at GE and then moved to PwC where over 10 years he provided his clients with the methodology, approach and tools necessary to execute detailed merger-integration and buy-side and sell-side carve-out transactions across the deal continuum. After PwC, Ofri served as a Managing Director at FTI Consulting and Accordion Partners. In both companies he was a leader in the Merger Integration & Carve-out practices, responsible for go-to-market strategy, product development, recruiting and engagement delivery. Most recently Ofri served as an Associate Partner with A.T. Kearney in their Transactions practice where he led the revamp of their M&A Solution program for private equity clients and corporates.

Chris Stanley, Managing Director

Chris leads the firm’s Healthcare Practice as Managing Director. He has especially deep expertise in Finance & Accounting Optimization and leverages experienced resources from throughout the firm to serve healthcare clients in need of other critical capabilities, including Merger & Acquisition services, Capital Structures & Placement, and Restructuring & Turnaround services. Chris joined Virtas Partners following nearly 20-years at a Big Four accounting firm, where he was a Partner, focused on serving Healthcare organizations. He is a Certified Healthcare Finance Professional and Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

Truc To, Managing Director

Truc is a Managing Director within the firm’s Quality of Earnings practice where he specializes in buy-side and sell-side due diligence, and quality of earnings analysis. He joined Virtas Partners following a distinguished, 29-year career at KPMG, where he was the national leader of the Chemical segment within the Transaction Services practice. Truc has led cross-border deals in 46 countries and lived on four continents. He has a wide range of buy-side, sell-side, and joint venture deal experience in a broad range of sectors, including: chemicals, aerospace and defense, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, IT/SAAS, construction, insurance, payments, sports, health care providers, hospitality, energy, manufacturing, media, mining, business services, telecommunications and transportation. Services provided include: diligence, purchase price disputes, integration and synergy evaluation to private equity and corporate clients.

Galina Wolinetz, Managing Director

Galina is a Managing Director within the firm’s Integration & Separation Practice. With nearly 25 years of industry experience in closing and integrating M&A transactions at industry-leading Fortune 500 firms, Galina ensures that the firm’s clients develop and execute a robust, structured integration process for their acquired businesses.

Previously, Galina served as Vice President—Strategic Initiatives and Head of the Integration Management Office of Stanley Black & Decker. Earlier in her career, she served as Senior Director, Corporate Strategy & Development at United Technologies. As Director of the Integration Management Office, she led the integration of an $18B acquisition.

Tammi Flowers, Managing Director

Tammi is a Managing Director in the firm’s Integration and Separation Practice. She is an executive with broad corporate experience, including 20+ years in M&A. Before joining Virtas, Tammi Served as Executive Director, Strategy – Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures with Raytheon Missiles & Defense, one of the four business segments of Raytheon Technologies. Prior to that role, she served in a variety of executive legal roles at United Technologies (now Raytheon Technologies), including its Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace divisions. She has vast experience in public and private M&A, joint ventures, commercial transactions in highly regulated industries, corporate governance, securities, regulatory divestitures, antitrust, and corporate finance.

Jeff Klitzke, Senior Director

Based in our Houston office, Jeff is a Senior Director in the firm’s CFO Advisory practice. He leverages his 18 years of combined Big 4 consulting and private equity experience to guide our clients through highly complex transactions. He has vast experience in capital markets transactions, buy-side and sell-side offerings, valuation services, operational integration and separation, and technical accounting matters. 

Erin McNamara, Senior Director

Erin is a Senior Director in the firm’s CFO Advisory practice. She focuses on preparing companies for exits including carve-outs, private sales and IPOs, as well as standing up carve-outs purchased by private equity firms.

Erin has served publicly traded and privately held companies in the U.S. and abroad, operating as Interim CFO for a variety of organizations, including a private foundation, software developer and textile manufacturing company. She served as a Director in KPMGs Financial Management Consulting practice where she spent 15 years, starting her career as an audit CPA and later moving to the consulting practice, including a three-year assignment as the COO for a $70M consulting business in KPMG’s Zurich, Switzerland office.

Ted Sullivan, Senior Director

Based out of New York, Ted is a Senior Director in the firm’s Integration & Separation Practice. He has over 18 years of experience in the execution of numerous large and complex transactions including cross-border acquisitions, joint ventures, and divestitures. Before joining Virtas, he held roles with Pratt & Whitney and EPAM Systems where he specialized in international M&A, deal sourcing, due diligence, and post-merger integration.

Redding Thomas, Senior Director

Redding is a Senior Director in the firm’s Performance Improvement practice. He is an accomplished operations and strategic finance executive with extensive skill and experience in leading, transforming, and managing successful companies and business units – in both large and highly structured corporate and entrepreneurial environments. He holds in-depth industry experience in media & entertainment, digital technology, financial services, and commercial retail.

Redding specializes in corporate turnaround, strategic planning, business and financial modeling, new business development, project management, corporate risk management, and market opportunity assessment for new partner ventures and service line/product roll-outs.

John Sengenberger, Director

John is a Director at Virtas Partners. John focuses on M&A Integration & Separation advisory and has 19 years of industry and consulting experience. For the past 10 years, John worked at leading advisory firms, primarily focused on Industrial Manufacturing clients, particularly in Aerospace & Defense, and has served both private equity (PE) portfolio companies and public corporations. John has executed over 40 engagements, with significant experience in strategy, operational due diligence (ODD), mergers & acquisitions (M&A), cost reduction and operational transformation. Functionally, he has experience in corporate strategy, data and analytics, engineering, finance, human resources, manufacturing and operations, product development, project management, quality, research & development (R&D), and supply chain. Prior to pivoting into advisory, John worked as an engineer in product validation and launch roles in the automotive industry with Navistar. He began his career with engineering roles in structural analysis and fatigue tracking on fighter jet programs at The Boeing Company, most notable the F/A-18 Super Hornet. John has a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

Matthew Albanese, Director

Based in Houston, Matt serves clients within the firm’s CFO Advisory and Quality of Earnings practice groups. Matt leads or supports Quality of Earnings assessments, pre- and post-acquisition integration, standing up finance organizations and providing development and support of FP&A organizations.

Prior to joining Virtas, Matt served as the CFO of an engineering and contracting firm. Previously, he worked in operational finance roles at private equity portfolio companies.

Bob Thomson, Director

Bob serves clients within the firm’s CFO Advisory Practice. He has proven expertise in budgeting, forecasting, complex modeling and big data, and especially deep experience in the pharmaceutical sector.

Before joining Virtas, he served clients as an independent consultant, including as the CFO of a private specialty pharmaceutical company and as CFO/COO/CIO of another specialty pharma company. He has supported the Finance organization for the U.S. subsidiary of a major European biopharmaceutical company. Earlier in his career, Bob led revenue forecasting and analysis activities at Mylan for EpiPen® and other branded products. His earlier roles included asset manager for a NYSE-listed infrastructure company and Director, Corporate Development & Investor Relations for a NYSE-listed pharma development company. He previously worked at two investment banks after starting his career at Mobil Oil.

Olamide Esan, Director

Based in San Diego, Olamide brings to our CFO Advisory team a combination of Big 4 and boutique consulting experience, as well as deep operational finance and accounting expertise. She advises clients on financial and accounting matters, including technical research, audit preparation and financial due diligence.

Prior to joining Virtas, Olamide worked at an outsourced accounting and finance consulting firm where she assisted clients in preparing cash flow projections (forecasting), capital raise processes and providing entrepreneurs a better understanding of the results of their business using key performance indicators and identifying cost savings opportunities. Olamide has Big 4 public accounting experience in Financial Audits and M&A due diligence and has worked with both public and private companies in various industries including life sciences, consumer products, distribution and manufacturing.

Joe Giordano III, Senior Director

Joe is a Senior Director in the firm’s CFO Advisory practice who brings over 25 years of public accounting and private company experience. He is an experienced CFO of both publicly traded and private equity-owned companies. Before joining Virtas, Joe was Corporate Controller & Treasurer of a publicly traded company for more than five years. He also has over eleven years of public accounting experience at Big Four firms.

Joe’s capabilities include strategic analysis, talent development, acquisitions, financial reporting, working capital management, internal controls, technical accounting, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, debt offerings / capital markets, taxes, treasury, forecasting, executive compensation, and investor relations.

Chris Martin, Senior Director

Chris focuses on Integration & Separation advisory and has 16 years of industry and consulting experience. Chris has worked with leading industry and consulting firms with experience in aerospace and defense and other diversified industrials leading major transformation initiatives to drive operational and EBITDA improvements across the deal cycle. Chris has executed numerous engagements, with significant experience in strategy, operational due diligence (ODD), mergers & acquisitions (M&A), government contracting, cost reduction and operational transformation.  Functionally, he has experience in corporate strategy, engineering, finance, manufacturing and operations, product development, project management, quality, research & development (R&D), and supply chain. Prior to advisory, Chris was a build team leader at Bell Helicopter responsible for the successful design, production, and delivery of experimental aircraft for the US Navy.

Amy Oglesby, Director

Based in our Houston office, Amy is a Director in the firm’s CFO Advisory practice. She joined Virtas with 16 years of experience acquired in publicly traded and private equity-backed corporations as well as Big 4 public accounting. Before joining Virtas, Oglesby utilized a strong technical research and financial reporting background to bring value to her clients at ESG Lynk where she developed ESG disclosure strategies and reports based on common frameworks and industry practices. She has assisted companies with a variety of complex accounting matters including those related to revenue recognition, business combinations, share-based compensation, and variable interest entities.

Jared Kelso, Senior Director

Jared is a Senior Director in the firm’s CFO Advisory practice who specializes in leading carve-out initiatives for financial services companies. Before joining Virtas, he was a finance executive for eight years at two small financial services firms. Jared began his career as a CPA with KPMG where he spent 12 years in both the audit and accounting advisory practices, including three years in Switzerland, where he focused on technical accounting implementations, IPO readiness, bankruptcy, and carve-outs.

Brian Ottaviano, Chief Operating Officer

Based in the firm’s Atlanta office, Brian serves as the firm’s Chief Operating Officer. He has deep expertise in accounting and in financial analysis and M&A integration. Before accepting the position of COO, Brian served as a Director with Virtas where he helped clients with unique solutions to finance-based problems, including custom budget and forecasting models, cash flow analysis, and ERP implementation project management.

Prior to joining Virtas, Brian worked for more than 15 years at EY accounting firm, where he formed and led a regional tangible asset practice. He also has two years of experience serving in a lead FP&A role, launching six startup companies born out of orphaned intellectual property from Fortune 500 companies.

Brian Heckler, Head of Strategy and Development

As Head of Strategy and Development, Brian leads business development, strategic planning, our solution portfolio, and our inorganic opportunities as Virtas executes its aggressive growth strategy over the next 3 years.

Brian joined Virtas after a storied 39-year career at KPMG, where he led KPMG’s Industrial Manufacturing sector and served as a Global Lead Account Partner for several Fortune 100 Manufacturers and Conglomerates in the Automotive, Aerospace, Energy and Healthcare Equipment, HVAC and Security Systems manufacturing and services companies. He is also an innovative leader who has launched new business opportunities for KPMG from conceptualization to scale and on-going long-term value creation, including KPMG’s Accounting Advisory Services.