Luisa Puche, has served as a senior accounting and financial advisor and president of Puche Group, LLC, since 2015. She has served in a variety of advisory capacities for both public and private organizations, such as technical accounting consultations; complex technical implementations, M&A transactions; IT Risk assessments; and SOX 404 implementations. Leveraging her broad global audit, advisory, and corporate expertise, Luisa has provided strong cross-functional leadership experience managing small and large projects for both publicly-traded and privately-held companies in various industries including a global implementation of the latest revenue recognition accounting standard for Del Monte, a $4B publicly traded global fresh produce company, as well as the global implementation of their SOX-404 program.
Previously, Luisa served in various senior executive roles at Brightstar Corp., a $10B global wireless device services provider, with public reporting requirements, including as Vice President and Global Controller and Interim Chief Accounting Officer. During her tenure at the Company she was responsible for the financial reporting of 55 countries, as well as instrumental in various key transactions including an $1.6B European acquisition and the sale of Brightstar to SoftBank. Luisa was also an executive at Ernst & Young, a big 4 accounting firm, where she worked for 10 years.
Highlights of her public company clients include: Del Monte Fresh Produce Company, Royal Palm Venture Capital, Terremark Worldwide, Knight-Ridder, Inc. and Vanguard Car Rental, Inc. (formerly Alamo and National Car Rental).
Luisa holds a Bachelor’s of Accounting from Florida International University. The above qualifies Luisa Puche to serve as CFO.