John Ferrara

Mr. Ferrara has been the CFO of several Public, Private and Private Equity portfolio companies primarily in media, technology, financial and information services; including EDGAR Online, Gabelli Asset Management and Golden Books. John is also an experienced Corporate Director, having served on the Boards and Audit Committees of four publicly traded companies and a Not-For-Profit.

Since 2017, John has been a partner at CFO Performance Partners, a professional services firm that provides CFO services, strategic and financial consulting and project management services. From 2019 to 2020, he was CFO of Wild Sky Media a PE owned digital media company. Prior to joining CFO Performance Partners, John was the CFO of Cartesian, Inc., a Nasdaq company, from 2015 to 2017. From 2013 to 2015, he was CFO of the Street, Inc., a Nasdaq Company founded by Jim Cramer, of CNBC’s Mad Money.

John is a CPA, has an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BS in Accounting from the University of Maryland and began his career at a Big 4 public accounting firm before moving on to financial positions at two Fortune 500 companies. John is a member of Financial Executives Institute (FEI), National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Executive Forum.