John Alves

John is an experienced CFO with over 25 years of finance and operational strategy experience serving both private and public companies. John is a CPA with both BS and MBA degrees in finance and accounting from California State University, East Bay. Prior to joining Gluware, John was a fractional CFO focused on advising and leading early-stage technology companies through periods of hyper-growth. In this role, John helped a variety of early-stage technology companies achieve operational efficiencies in building and scaling “IPO-ready” finance organizations and infrastructures. John’s successes included formulating and executing on operational strategy, securing much-needed debt and equity growth capital, navigating through acquisitions, ERP implementations and upgrading scalable finance organizations. Prior to that, John was CFO for Accela, Inc., where he raised more than $240 million in debt and equity capital in support of that Company’s growth and acquisition strategies. Prior to Accela, John held various CFO and senior executive management roles at a variety of enterprise software companies including Serena, Inc. (acquired by MicroFocus) and Barra Inc. (acquired by MSCI), where he led both those companies through successful IPOs.