Chad Putnam is an Executive Vice President and Consulting CFO at Optima Office. Chad has over 30 years of finance and accounting experience working for venture-backed, publicly traded, and professional services companies in the life sciences, technology, and consulting industries.
Prior to joining Optima, Chad provided consulting services to Eiger Biopharmaceuticals, a publicly traded, commercial-stage company focused on the development of therapies to treat rare diseases, and to RSM LLP, where he led the firm’s West Region Finance & Accounting Outsourcing practice.
From 2010 to 2018, he served as the CFO for Access Scientific and Evofem, as well as providing fractional CFO services to clients on a part-time basis. Before this, he held various positions of increasing responsibility, including Vice President of Finance at PatientSafe Solutions, a venture-backed healthcare information technology company.
He started his career in the audit practice of Ernst & Young LLP. His experience includes venture capital financing, financial planning and analysis, cash flow management, strategic modeling, process improvement, and system implementations. Chad received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from the University of San Diego and is a Certified Public Accountant.