Prior to merging with Conexus, Colleen was co-founder and partner at Citadel. With over 20 years of business knowledge, her deep understanding of organizational dynamics and process in small to large company environments provides strategic direction and long-term success to the businesses we serve. She began her career as Controller of a consumer products company, overseeing Accounting, Technology and Human Resources functions that successfully navigated the business through rapid growth for many years. She then took on a leadership role with an international, publicly held, multi-billion-dollar firm specializing in accounting and finance consulting, guiding them in the opening of new offices and divisions, always working side by side with the clients in the region as well as turnaround specialists for struggling business units. She served as Orange County Director of Client Services for Tatum LLC, which was a national firm focused on services around the office of the CFO and CIO. After Tatum was sold to a strategic buyer, Colleen jumped into a startup and was one of the founders of Beacon Resources, which specialized in accounting and finance consulting and placement. Beacon quickly grew to be one of the fastest growing management companies in Orange County, according to the Orange County Business Journal for four years running and was later successfully sold to Gryphon Investors/DLC. Prior to co-founding Citadel, Colleen was a partner and founder of Tactical Cloud, which was a consultancy focused on cloud ERP and reporting tools such as NetSuite and Adaptive. Tactical Cloud was successfully sold to a strategic buyer, Eide Bailly, after only three and a half years of rapid growth.