Kohmela Grier

Kohmela brings more than 20 years of finance and accounting experience and a proven record of change management and business-building, across industries from consumer products to healthcare to laboratory equipment and more. Kohmela takes a collaborative approach in partnering with the other leaders and owners of the business providing critical information to deliver immediate and sustainable results. As their financial leader, Kohmela will execute accounting and financial reporting as well as take charge of implementing the IT infrastructure required to effectively support the significant growth ahead at The Planting Hope Company, Inc.

Most recently, Kohmela served as Finance & Operations Director for Premier Beauty Supply, where she provided leadership and direction across finance, purchasing, reporting, client services, warehousing, IT and human resources. Kohmela’s expertise on the distributor side of consumer products will be instrumental as SWB’s retail and distributor sales channels expand. While at Premier, Kohmela specifically honed her organization-building skills, as exemplified in her leadership of cross-functional teams in establishing the data and IT infrastructure (including ERP implementation) necessary to generate customer and business data for effective business decision making.

Previous experiences include: Marcus Lemonis, where she was instrumental in guiding entrepreneurs on the show “The Profit” on the best means to turn their businesses around financially, and Xeikon America, where she led the internal and external financial and business reporting (including key business metric, and business/inventory/revenue trend analysis, customer and product profitability and more) for both the US and Canadian entities.

Kohmela honed her expertise across all aspects of the finance functions in roles at Panasonic, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Baxter, including management of Cash, AR, AP, Inventory, Debt, directing monthly close, financial reporting, forecasting, audit, tax, and oversight of shared services operations. Kohmela is a detail-oriented leader with the knowledge and drive to build out a customer-focused finance organization to fuel SWB’s growth and foster performance improvement.

Kohmela received a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and holds an MBA with a concentration in organizational behavior from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.