Kelli Gerasimou, CPA

Senior Vice President of Finance

With nearly 2 decades of experience in accounting, finance, and customer and sales operation integrations, Kelli demonstrates a passion for accelerating the growth of emerging companies. She is a certified CPA who works as a cross-functional business partner, creating scalable strategies to support commercial expansion of small startups. For 5 years, she was the Vice President of Finance at Ivantis Inc before facilitating its $545M sale to Alcon, where she continued serving as the VP of Finance. Kelli has been successful in integrating strategies that align global financial operations with a corporate vision. She has expertise in international commercial launches through her management of foreign entities including legal and tax structure, VAT/ GST compliance, banking, and operational processes. She was nominated as Orange County Business Journal’s CFO of the year “Rising Star” three years in a row and nominated as one of 2022 OCBJ’s Women in Business. Kelli graduated with her B.S. in accounting from CalPoly Pomona.