Kimberly Stanley

Kim spent the 20+ years working with high growth education technology companies. She is a CPA and started out her career working in accounting and finance. Along the journey of her career, she discovered a love of building and operating businesses. She ran and expanded the largest group of culinary arts schools in the world, Le Cordon Bleu, which had over 20,000 students and 17 campuses across the United States. She then helped to create the world’s first online Title IV eligible culinary arts program at Escoffier Schools of Culinary Arts.

Kim decided to leave her successful career at Escoffier to form a start-up called Veraki. Veraki was a personal growth app intended to teach users mindfulness tools as part of their daily routines. The idea for Veraki came about after Kim spent five years going through fertility treatments. Veraki was a personal success for Kim, but it failed to get the users needed to create a sustainable business model.

After winding down Veraki, Kim went back to her roots of finance and accounting as a consulting CFO for business in various stages of growth. She is able to leverage her start-up experience along with her other finance and operations experiences to partner with companies as they seek to grow and expand their operations.

Her areas of expertise include; education, finance, technology, retail, manufacturing, hospitality, and service industries. She has worked for publicly traded companies, venture backed start-ups, and start-ups in their first angel round of funding. She has managed all roles in finance organizations in addition to overseeing all other functional departments. She is well versed in capital management, fundraising, and mergers and acquisitions.