Our Companies

Amanda Garner

• Principal
• BILL

Amanda leads the Outsourced Marketing Division of The Growth Partnership, and has worked with TGP since 2002. In addition to professional services marketing, her background includes years working with various media outlets as a producer and on-air talent. Most notably, her job history includes a brief production role at NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

With over a decade of experience in marketing and communications training and implementation, Amanda is devoted to helping accounting firms establish best practice marketing activities.

Specialties: Marketing and Communications for CPA Firms, Branding and Advertising, E-marketing Effectiveness, Managing Social Media, Harnessing the Power of PR, Managing Generations in the Workplace, N... Read more

Don Thompson

• Manager of Growth Marketing
• BILL

Don Thompson, MBA, PMB, is the manager of growth marketing at BILL. 

Ed Kless, Sage

• Sage Thought Leader
• BILL

Ed is the senior director of partner development and strategy for North America at Sage. In this role, Ed develops and delivers the curriculum for the Sage Consulting Academy, a course designed to educate Sage Software partners on the art and practice of small business consulting. He also facilitates the Sage Leadership Academy, a yearlong program designed to assist Sage Software partners develop a continuous process of improvement in their organizations and serves as liaison to the Sage Leadership Academy Alumni Association.

Ed is an avid podcaster. Check out the Sage Thought Leadership Podcast ...

Liz Briggson (BILL)

• Speaker
• BILL

Liz is passionate about education and helping people reach their potential. 

Liz's corporate finance experience includes progressive finance roles with Kellogg Company, Amway, and Open Systems Technologies. At Amway, Liz was responsible for management reporting for Amway’s portfolio companies and financial planning & analysis for Amway’s finance and executive divisions. Prior to that, Liz served clients in the utilities, insurance, and manufacturing industries in the assurance practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Liz is a licensed CPA in the state of Michigan. She leads Partnerships & Education for Encoursa. 

Joe Fleischer

• Webinar Content Marking Manager
• BILL

Joe is a webinar content marketing manager with BILL. Joe has written and edited hundreds of articles, and produced and moderated hundreds of digital events, for executives in finance, customer care, IT, and HR. Throughout all these endeavors he has applied a strategic approach to content development as well as an editorial experience to inform and engage audiences about topics they care about most.

Philip Peck

• Speaker, VP, Advisory Services and Finance Transformation Practice, Peloton Consulting Group
• BILL

Philip has more than 30 years of consulting and industry experience with a specific focus on planning, forecasting, reporting, and analytics assessment as well as digitally-enabled business process transformation and optimizing technology investments to support superior performance.

Prior to joining Peloton Consulting Group, Philip led the Performance Management Practice for the Palladium Group. He was also a key leader with the Planning and Performance Management Group for Answerthink Consulting. Before consulting, Philip worked in various business planning, finance, strategy, and sales operations roles for Chicago-area companies.

Katie Kraig

• Speaker, Vice President and Controller, Lightwave Dental
• BILL

Katie Kraig is the Vice President and Controller of Lightwave Dental. She is responsible for the accounting department and all the policies, procedures, and systems that go into it. She is a CPA and began her career in public accounting. She then switched gears and worked for internal accounting departments, where she has been closely involved with systems implementations and process automation. She lives in Virginia with her husband and three children.