Mr. Stearrett, a Certified Public Accountant with an MBA, began his career at Deloitte and Ernst Young LLP. Throughout his accounting career, Mr. Stearrett has provided independent services to various publicly-traded, multinational companies. He has managed a variety of projects using SAP and Hyperion; assisted in international consolidation issues; corporate and tax reporting; and been directly involved with FAS 5 and top-down risk-based Sarbanes-Oxley documentation. He is well-versed in all aspects of establishing policies and procedures within the finance department of publicly traded companies.