Kristi Ponczak

Kristi Ponczak, chief financial officer for Priority Ambulance, is responsible for all financial and accounting-related functions of the company. She has 15 years of experience managing finances in the emergency medical services industry. Before coming to Priority Ambulance, Kristi worked with publicly traded Rural/Metro Corporation, one of the country’s largest emergency medical services companies, for 13 years. She started with the company as director of financial planning and later served as vice president and treasurer. She acted as senior vice president and chief financial officer at Rural/Metro Corporation from 2006 to 2011.

As CFO, she advised and coordinated with the CEO and board of directors on the financial and accounting aspects of corporate initiatives and activities. Prior to her experience in the EMS field, Kristi worked as corporate controller at Sun Street Foods and was responsible for implementing operational and accounting processes post-acquisition for the publicly-traded Main Street & Main.

Kristi began her career focusing on large-scale merger and acquisition structures as a member of the Management Consulting-Business Valuation Group at Coopers & Lybrand.