Insider Guide Bio for Saas Finance and Growth, Denice Sakakeeny

Get the inside view, tips and strategies on SaaS recurring revenue strategies with Denice Sakakeeny, our INSIDER Guide to SaaS Finance and Growth. Denice’s

Get the inside view, tips and strategies on SaaS recurring revenue strategies with Denice Sakakeeny, our INSIDER Guide to SaaS Finance and Growth.

Denice’s Background:

Denice Sakakeeny is a sought-after operational consultant with nearly 20 years of experience guiding SaaS, cloud, and high-tech organizations through the most challenging parts of their lifecycle. She partners with early-stage startup founders to establish the infrastructure and structure need to launch or pivot their companies or products. She also guides foreign corporations through the challenges of establishing U.S. subsidiaries, managing infrastructure, agreements, taxes, payroll, HR and compliance matters to mitigate risk.

From a position of knowledge and experience, Denice helps companies in transition tackle complex challenges in turbulent times. She helps organizations migrate business and economic models to SaaS or cloud, effectuate or prepare for an asset sale, convert a freemium product to subscription revenue, and consider the risks and cash impact of accelerating development or making a strategic hire. For companies in high-growth mode, Denice develops structure and processes meant to drive scale, aligning companies, their data, and their processes against growth goals. This includes economic models, quote-to-cash processes, internal controls, and specific measurement required for CEOs, investors, acquirers and boards to make data-driven decisions with confidence.

Though often requested for specific corporate finance needs as an on-demand CFO or working with the current CFO, her experience extends to the areas of business transformation, product pricing and distribution, revenue and sales operations, and strategic human resource management. Additionally, her extensive background and experience in accounting for recurring revenue and high-tech related topics under US GAAP afford her clients a level of technical expertise that is invaluable in designing a core business process, explaining recurring revenue accounting and unit economics to the uninitiated, and working through an audit, fundraising event, acquisition or asset sale.

She has held CFO positions at a dozen privately-held software and high-tech companies globally, including finance leadership positions at such venture-backed companies as Intronis, Ordermotion (acquired by NetSuite), and HubX (acquired by SynXis), as well as Aspen Technology (AZPN), where she provided global finance leadership to the $65MM Professional Services business.