Chief Financial Officer
Gary Arnold is responsible for all of the financial operations of Copytalk. Gary is a CPA with more than 30 years’ experience in corporate finance, treasury, accounting and tax. He also has extensive experience with mergers, acquisitions and divestiture transactions. Gary began his career with KPMG, a large international accounting firm, and later served as an executive officer of several well-known public companies, including Boston Scientific Corporation, Sunbeam Corporation, and Harcourt Brace & Company. Gary’s career experience includes two successful IPOs, a management-led LBO, and over 60 mergers and acquisitions of both public and privately-held companies ranging in size from $2 million to $550 million in revenues. Gary played a key strategic role in negotiating and closing a $3 billion leveraged recapitalization transaction, which at the time was the largest transaction of this nature in Wall Street history. Additionally, he was directly responsible for negotiating, structuring and closing the sale of a major division of a public company to another public company for a sales price of $1.1 billion.
In addition to his role at Copytalk, Gary serves as managing director of a Florida-based venture capital firm and has served on the board of directors and audit committee of a public company, and as a director of three privately-held companies.