Ed Long
Managing Partner
Ed has over thirty years of experience in accounting, finance, auditing, operations, and consulting. His career has included both financial and operational roles with public, private, and family-owned companies, where he has been responsible for core accounting and financial operations, performance improvement, risk identification and mitigation, business operations, and leveraging and enhancing technology to drive both top- and bottom line results.
Ed is a proven financial and operational executive with broad-based experience in numerous industries, including e-waste recycling, food service, automotive, manufacturing, logistics, distribution, insurance, power generation, oil field services, marketing, food processing, and healthcare. Ed spent over a decade at a large private automotive-related group of companies, where he served initially as the Corporate Controller of Shared Services with a staff of 25 providing accounting and financial reporting, AP, AR, and financial analysis. Ed was then promoted to VP and “acting” COO of the logistics company, where revenues grew 400% over five years, a new terminal was constructed, and a world-class dispatch system was installed. In his final role at the company, he served as the VP of Enterprise Performance Improvement with a staff of eight responsible for connecting people, processes, and technology to drive efficiency, scalability, and risk reduction across the group of companies.
Prior to this role, Ed served in a key global finance role with a corporation in the aero derivative power generation industry with sales exceeding $1B annually. Ed also has held key finance roles in both the sales and manufacturing operations of a multi-billion-dollar global snack food company, where he was responsible for accounting and financial controls for production, warehousing, distribution, and delivery logistics. Prior to this role, Ed was the initial corporate controller for a newly formed public company in the healthcare industry, where he established the initial accounting control environment and filed the company’s first quarterly SEC report.
Ed also spent five years with an international public accounting firm and has served in the capacity of “acting” internal audit director for a global food and beverage company. He holds a BBA in Accounting from Texas Lutheran University, is a Certified Public Accountant, and is a Chartered Global Management Accountant. Ed is also a Certified Six Sigma Green Belt, Certified Capability Performance Improvement Leader, and Certified Blackline Implementation Professional. Ed is based in Houston.