Stephanie works with clients to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of their lead-to-cash process, leveraging their investments in CRM and ERP to automate processes and increase transparency and adoption. She works with Sales and Finance leaders to solve complex challenges that support their business and reporting needs. Stephanie’s professional background spans both management consulting and industry, with a decade of Sales Operations and Finance experience. She is a Salesforce Certified Administrator and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and Information Systems from Virginia Tech.
Eddie Graves is Managing Director of Technology Services for Highspring’s Retail Planning and Supply Chain Management practice, working with clients across retail, apparel, outdoor lifestyle, consumer goods, industrial manufacturing, and e-commerce. He supports clients by maintaining and updating their end-to-end planning capabilities from a technical standpoint. Focused on delivering top-tier technical solutions, Eddie leads a team of skilled experts who consistently provide clients with high-quality, efficient outcomes.
Eddie is a seasoned supply chain specialist with expertise in designing, developing, and deploying supply chain management solutions. With more than three decades of professional IT experience—including two decades overseeing and leading teams—he’s spent 25 years implementing Blue Yonder supply chain solutions as a Technical Executive, Manager, and Implementer.
When he’s not supporting his clients, Eddie enjoys biking, golfing, woodworking, and spending time with his family.
Howard Gutman serves as a Director in our Private Equity practice. In addition to his delivery focus on GTM strategy, cost optimization and technology transformation, he serves as our PE Strategy and Coverage Leader. He draws on 18 years of experience in IT, Operational and Commercial Due Diligence, Integrations and Carveouts, Synergy Analysis, Post-Deal Value Realization, Business and Cloud/Technology Transformation. His industry experience spans across Technology, Media, Telecommunications, Industrials, Chemicals, CPG and Financial Services. Howard also led day to day strategy and delivery at AWS Private Equity for two $100B+ technology PE firms along with a senior leader for M&A, Integration, PMO and Strategy for a $600M division of a Fortune 100 CPG company.
Fred Hargrove leads Highspring’s NetSuite practice, specializing in enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise information management (EIM), and corporate performance management (CPM). With over 25 years of experience spanning Big Four accounting, industry, and consulting, he helps clients improve financial and operational performance by optimizing processes, controls, technology, and data.
Before joining Highspring, Fred spent ten years combined with PwC Consulting and IBM, where he served as a lead analyst on application implementations, financial system migrations, and finance transformation initiatives. His deep expertise in technology-driven finance solutions enables organizations to streamline operations and drive strategic growth.
Omar Hawa leads Highspring’s accounting advisory practice and serves a wide range of clients from fast-growing private companies to large international publicly traded companies specializing in complex transactional challenges in accounting, finance, and business operations. Additionally, he oversees Highspring’s rapid growth and strategy on the west coast. His portfolio includes hands-on experience in IPO readiness, financial reporting process design and improvement, finance transformation, enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations, audit readiness, technical accounting, and internal control (Sarbanes-Oxley) compliance. Omar has also advised several multibillion-dollar companies in the aerospace and defense industry through the full M&A lifecycle particularly in post-merger process and system integration challenges.
Prior to joining Highspring, Omar served in an internal controls role at Black Entertainment Television (BET), a Viacom company, and worked in Big Four public accounting. He is a certified public accountant and holds a B.S. in accounting, B.S. in business management, and a minor in economics from George Mason University.
Christian is a Partner in the Risk & Regulatory Service Practice. He has extensive expertise with SOX compliance, internal audit, internal controls, and information technology risk management. Christian has over 25 years of experience designing, implementing and assessing SOX compliance programs. Christian also has extensive experience leading internal audit functions as a Chief Audit Executive and working collaboratively with his clients as a valued co-sourced internal audit partner. Christian is a Chartered Accountant and Certified Information Systems Auditor. He enjoys working out and relaxing with his family and friends.
Lauren partners with Finance and Operations executives to lead complex business transformation initiatives that improve performance, strengthen operating models, and enable scalable growth. With more than 20 years of consulting experience across public and private enterprises, she brings a practical, executive-level perspective to CFO strategy, organization design, process improvement, performance management, and technology-enabled ERP and EPM transformation. Once in front of clients, Paul has a natural curiosity to understand their needs along with an unrelenting focus to bring options to the table that address those needs quickly.
Prior to Highspring, Lauren held senior leadership roles with Ankura Consulting, EY, and Deloitte, where she built and scaled finance transformation offerings, led multidisciplinary client teams, and facilitated executive workshops and C-suite forums. She is known for connecting strategy with execution while helping clients translate transformation priorities into actionable, sustainable results. Lauren holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Central Florida and a Master of Business Administration from Rollins College.
Bob Herman has nearly 30 years of experience as an ERP, automation, and analytics risk leader. He has joined Highspring as Managing partner of Risk and Regulatory Services, where he will lead a team dedicated to helping clients maximize value from core SAP investments while preparing them for new innovations. Bob will also oversee risk considerations related to ERP implementations and automation tools to enhance global operations.
Prior to joining the team, Bob held leadership positions at Big 4 consulting firms, where he helped global Fortune 50 companies and middle-market clients achieve their SOX compliance and IT business control transformation goals. His expertise spans robotic process automation (RPA), ERP security and controls, project assurance, IT internal audits, and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance.
Bob specializes in leveraging RPA technologies, such as Automation Anywhere and UiPath, to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance the quality of routine tasks. He also brings significant experience in designing governance processes around intelligent automation and ERP security, ensuring system integrity and control for clients across industries.
Bob holds a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Technology Education from Virginia Tech. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and is certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC).
Amy serves as a Client Experience Leader and Senior Managing Partner at Highspring. She provides practical solutions to complex problems, considering key connections across strategy and operations, finance and accounting, technology, and risk. She collaborates across teams, with a responsiveness and “roll up your sleeves” approach that reflects a true business partner.
Amy has extensive experience delivering transaction readiness, audit readiness, financial reporting solutions, and risk advisory services including internal audit and SOX readiness to some of the world’s largest companies. Prior to joining Highspring, she spent 20 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers and served as an audit partner.
Amy earned a BSBA from the University of Richmond and is a certified public accountant licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
