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Allen J. Proctor, founder and principal of Allen Proctor Consulting, LLC has more than 25 years of experience in evaluating the financial health of organizations, developing effective business strategies, and enhancing organizational effectiveness. Since establishing Allen Proctor Consulting, LLC in 2001, Allen has worked with clients to build a solid financial and strategic base for their future growth and presented workshops and seminars for audiences of all sizes.

For public companies, Allen is qualified to be an audit committee financial expert. Section 407 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires public companies subject to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to have at least one such expert on their audit committees. Please click on this link for a list of his qualifications.

A nationally recognized expert in business analysis, strategy development, budgeting, and organizational effectiveness, Allen has regularly developed innovative solutions to the financial and performance challenges of organizations. Allen has worked as a top executive at institutions as diverse as Harvard University (CFO and Vice President for Finance), New York City (Deputy Budget Director), New York State Financial Control Board (Executive Director), and Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Division Chief). His work on structural budget balance won the 1993 Louisville Award for Financial Innovation and he was awarded a commendation for outstanding service from the Ohio House of Representatives for his work in restructuring the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund. Allen earned his A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in economics and forecasting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Allen's wide ranging career has given him an unusually broad perspective and span of experience. In his high level roles he has regularly dealt with issues in change management, financial restructuring, strategic planning, investment oversight, board relations, government and media relations, technology transfer, process re-engineering, and information technology.

A regular columnist on nonprofit management ( Business First ), Allen has taught budgeting and finance at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and twice served as a reviewer for the prestigious Innovations program sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Author of numerous journal articles and publications, his most recent book, Linking Mission to Money, Finance for Nonprofit Board Members, is published by the Academy for Leadership & Governance. A frequent speaker, he has been interviewed on National Public Radio and on New York City cable and broadcast stations and newspapers, including the New York Times.

Years of experience have given Allen an intimate knowledge of the financial support and information needed by board chairs and chief executives. He frequently is called in to help with the following, common dilemmas:

• "I know we need to move ahead on this project, but in our push to get approval are we underestimating some important risks?
• "My financial staff is very good and I get lots of reports and more data than I have time to digest. Are we missing the forest for the trees?
• "I get tons of information but I still seem to learn of problems at the last minute.
• "The budget process takes so much time and demands so many decisions that it seems to run me rather than me running it.
• "We spend all this time on planning yet it seems to be forgotten when my managers prepare their budgets.
• "I like our investment managers and their returns seem okay, but is the portfolio the right one for our needs?"