Mike Whitmire

Mike Whitmire – 2018 20 Under 40 Vendor Superstar

Mike Whitmire CPA (Inactive)CEO & FounderFloQastwww.floqast.com Career Highlights: Three years in audit at Ernst & Young, Los Angeles Practice Joined Cornerstone onDemand as fifth member of its pre-IPO accounting team; rapidly growing team that grew to over 40 to take the company public. It was in this role that Mike experienced the pain firsthand of... Read more »

CPA (Inactive)
CEO & Founder
FloQast
www.floqast.com

Career Highlights:

Three years in audit at Ernst & Young, Los Angeles Practice
Joined Cornerstone onDemand as fifth member of its pre-IPO accounting team; rapidly growing team that grew to over 40 to take the company public. It was in this role that Mike experienced the pain firsthand of the cumbersome, manual close process and came up with the idea for FloQast
Founded FloQast in 2013 with co-founder Cullen Zandstra

Favorite books/websites/speakers that you find influential

Thank You for Arguing
Giraffes Can’t Dance (I have a 1 year old)
Simon Sinek

What websites/magazines do you use to keep up on news of the accounting profession?

Cloud Accounting
Accounting Today
Wall Street Journal

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