Taylor English Duma CEO and leadership

Kirk Hancock is an experienced operations, finance and accounting executive with over 35 years of progressive experience including Big 5 and industry executive management positions with publicly held, privately held, ESOP and start-up companies. Kirk has considerable experience managing the complexities (working capital, repurchase obligations, synthetic equity, etc) of a growing ESOP. He is dedicated to leverage his ESOP and Executive Management experience to serve as an independent director for ESOP companies. In addition to his ESOP related functions, Kirk focuses on consulting with technology companies and their channel partners, most often working directly with business owners and their senior leadership teams with a heavy emphasis on profitable growth and business transformation. He focuses on the intersection of the client, culture, compensation and profitability. Kirk served previously for more than 13 years as COO and CFO for Atlanta-based global consulting company North Highland with offices in 21 cities in the U.S. and London and international partnerships throughout Europe and Asia. He helped lead the employee owned (ESOP) company from revenues of $32 million to over $350 million. While at NH, the company consistently ranked as one of the Top 5 Best Consulting Companies to Work For by Consulting Magazine. Prior to North Highland, Kirk served in the broadband and telecom industries, the airline IT industry, the automotive parts industry, and was a manager in the Turnaround Consulting practice at Arthur Anderson. Kirk has a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Auburn University and has served as Vice Chairman of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce Education and Workforce Committee.