Christopher oversees the Risk Advisory Practice on the West Coast of the United States. He has more than a decade of experience providing professional services to clients of different sizes, maturities, and industries. During his career at CFGI, Christopher has specialized in the technical areas of enterprise risk management, SOX implementation, internal audit, business process transformation, internal control monitoring, system implementation, revenue recognition, and period-end close activities. His experience through providing these services includes executive leadership of the fieldwork of several Sarbanes-Oxley internal control implementations as well as serving as the Director of Internal Audit at multiple SOX-compliant SEC filers and pre-IPO entities. He has also led operational business process improvement initiatives alongside client management teams.
Christopher uses this experience to help CFGI clients institute positive change across the evolving financial operation, risk, and compliance landscapes.
Prior to joining CFGI, Christopher provided assurance services to the banking and insurance industry at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston, MA. He started his career during college in a long-term internship at Textron, Inc. in Providence, RI, where he gained experience in corporate accounting operations.
Christopher graduated summa cum laude with a Master of Science in Accounting from the University of Rhode Island and received the Lois Pazienza Graduate Student Accounting Award for excellence in the master’s program. Christopher is an active Certified Public Accountant.