Rich Petagna

Rich Petagna has over 20 years of work experience in the financial and accounting field. In 1998, they began their career as a Senior Internal Auditor at Lucent Technologies. Rich then moved up to Internal Audit Manager at the same company in 2000. In 2001, they became a Finance Manager at Lucent Technologies. In 2003, they joined UBS Investment Bank as an Associate Director in IT IBD and then Senior Financial Analyst. In 2004, they moved to Virgin Mobile USA, LLC as Revenue Assurance/Revenue Accounting Manager and then Revenue Assurance/Revenue Accounting Director. In 2009, they took on the role of Director of Financial Operations, Prepaid Wireless at Sprint Nextel. In 2012, they joined GES - Global Experience Specialists as Senior Director Finance - East-Central Region & On Services and Director of Finance - East Region. In 2021, they became President/Owner of Petagna & Sons Consulting, LLC and CFO-COO of ALU. Rich is currently Chief Financial Officer of Metro Exhibits.

Rich Petagna obtained a Certificate from eCornell in 2021 in Business Analytics. Rich then went on to obtain a Master of Business Administration - MBA from the University of Phoenix in 2005 in Business Administration and Management, General. Rich completed their Bachelor of Science in Accounting from St. John's University, The Peter J. Tobin College of Business in 1995.