Fern MacDonald

As Senior Vice Pres­i­dent, Finance, Fern Mac­Don­ald pro­vides lead­er­ship, direc­tion and man­age­ment to the organization’s glob­al finance and account­ing team includ­ing respon­si­bil­i­ty for report­ing, bud­get­ing, fore­cast­ing, com­pli­ance and tax­a­tion as well as sup­port­ing M&A activity.

Mac­Don­ald joined acces­so in May 2018 bring­ing over 16 years of finance and account­ing expe­ri­ence from both prac­tice and indus­try. Mac­Don­ald is both a Char­tered Accoun­tant and CPA and holds a BA from Dublin City Uni­ver­si­ty, Ireland.

Pri­or to join­ing acces­so, Mac­Don­ald spent 8 years with pri­vate equi­ty backed com­pa­ny ZeroChaos, ulti­mate­ly serv­ing as Exec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent, Finance, sup­port­ing the glob­al finance oper­a­tions, from their US head­quar­ters, through a peri­od of sig­nif­i­cant growth and acquis­i­tive activ­i­ty. Pre­vi­ous­ly, Mac­Don­ald was a senior man­ag­er with Ernst & Young, serv­ing a series of pub­lic and pri­vate clients from both the Dublin, Ire­land and Moscow, Rus­sia offices.