Our Companies

Jennifer Elder

• Speaker
• BILL

Jennifer Elder, CSP, CPA, CMA, CIA, CFF, CGMA helps financial leaders become more strategic, stay ahead of the competition, and be more successful. 

Jennifer has a track record of success helping organizations develop a business strategy to rise above the herd, capture their market, and be consistently successful and profitable.  For more than 25 years, Jennifer has been speaking and consulting for organizations in all 50 states and 9 countries.  Her clients include privately held companies, not-for-profits, trade associations, the Fortune 500, and state and Federal governments.

In addition to being a CPA, Jennifer is also a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), C... Read more

Brandon Roth

• Senior Product Marketing Manager
• BILL

Brandon Roth is the Senior Product Marketing Manager at BILL. After years of consultation and sales, supporting firms of all sizes and their clients, Brandon is now dedicated to his role as a ‘technical translator’—helping firms better understand technology and how to use it to their advantage.

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

Sara Hirsche

• Demand Generation Manager, BILL
• BILL

Sara serves finance and accounting professionals through orchestrating top-notch webinar programs designed to empower organizational transformation.

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.

Mark Brousseau

• Speaker, President at Brousseau & Associates
• BILL

Mark Brousseau is president of Brousseau & Associates.

Over the past 26 years, Mark Brousseau has established himself as a thought leader on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments and document automation. A popular speaker at industry conferences and on webinars and podcasts, Brousseau advises prominent end-users and solutions and services providers on how to use automation to improve document- and payments-driven business processes. Brousseau has chaired numerous educational conferences and has served on several industry committees and boards. He resides in Center City Philadelphia with his wife and three sons.

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.

Mary S. Schaeffer

• Speaker, Founder AP Now
• BILL

Mary Schaeffer, AP Now’s Founder and author of 127 Best Practices for Accounts Payable, has been creating content around the AP function for 20+ years. This material takes the form of a twice-a-week free ezine, a weekly podcast, the AP Now YouTube channel with 300+ videos, a monthly newsletter, a variety of courses for accountants and AP professionals, and numerous webinars.

She served on the Business Payments Coalition and Federal Reserve’s Remittance Delivery Assessment Work Group, and is currently a member of Nacha’s ACH Network Advisory Panel. Schaeffer has been named a Top AP Influencer for the last three years by the prestigious AP Association, a global organization headquartered in the UK. She also received the Well-Being fo... Read more

Laurie McCabe

• Speaker, Co-Founder and Partner, SMB Group
• BILL

Laurie brings more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry to her current role with SMB Group as Co-Founder and Partner. Laurie has built widespread recognition for her insights into the small and midsize business (SMB) technology market.

Prior to co-founding SMB Group, Laurie worked in analyst roles as a Partner at Hurwitz & Associates; Vice President of SMB Solutions at AMI-Partners; and Vice President at Summit Strategies. Laurie's nine years at Digital Equipment Corporation, including her last role as Director of Market and Competitive Intelligence, provide her with critical experience from the vendor perspective.

Laurie blogs often at lauriemccabe.com, speaks regularly at industry events, and has more than 17,... Read more

Dave Glennon

• Speaker, Partner and Manufacturing Industry Leader, Eide Bailly LLP
• BILL

Eide Bailly welcomed Dave on board in 2000, and since then he has provided audit and accounting services to a variety of clients, including SEC-registered entities, closely-held commercial enterprises, insurance companies, pools, and trusts. His client work also includes engagements with large, multi-location organizations as well as management consulting to help companies handle their financial reporting obligations.

Colin King

• Speaker, Chief Financial Officer, USA Brands
• BILL

USA Brands LLC was founded in 2022 by Joe Van Deman and Colin King with the intent to buy and build American-made apparel companies. USA Brands owns and manages two apparel brands: All American Clothing and The Vermont Flannel Company.

Colin graduated from Indiana University with a master's degree in accounting. He spent two years as an auditor with Ernst & Young, where he obtained his CPA license. He then spent six years in senior investment roles with Kirr, Marbach & Co., an Indiana-registered investment advisor. Prior to founding USA Brands, he worked as CFO at Little Engine Ventures, an Indiana-based private equity firm, where he assisted in the acquisition of six portfolio companies.

Skyler Vickroy

• Solutions Consultant, BILL
• BILL

Skyler Vickroy is a Solutions Consultant with BILL.

Angus Maclaurin

• Director, Product Marketing, BILL
• BILL

Angus is a Director of Product Marketing at BILL focused on payments. Since joining BILL in 2021, he has worked on payment products that include virtual cards, Instant Transfer, and Invoice Financing. He has more than 20 years of marketing experience and never misses a chance to talk to customers and better understand their needs.

Robbie Neff

• Senior Account Executive
• BILL

Robbie Neff is a Senior Account Executive at BILL, for which he has been working since 2021. He was born and raised in a suburb of Salt Lake City, UT. When he isn't working at BILL, he is busy raising two young children with his wife. He enjoys golfing and any excuse to play with the family in the outdoors.

Johny Fredrick

• Senior Account Executive
• BILL

Johny is a Senior Account Executive with BILL, where he's been helping businesses simplify spend and expense management. He has a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Utah.

Nate Triplett

• Senior Account Executive
• BILL

Nate Triplett is a Senior Account Executive with BILL.