{"id":20708,"date":"2024-07-17T10:56:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativesigndesigns.com\/?p=20708"},"modified":"2024-07-17T10:56:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:56:53","slug":"new-cfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativesigndesigns.com\/blog\/new-cfo","title":{"rendered":"Creative Sign Designs Appoints New CFO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, FL (July 15, 2024) \u2014 Creative Sign Designs, a leader in branding, wayfinding and architectural signage solutions, today appointed a new Chief Financial Officer, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativesigndesigns.com\/people\/josh-baldwin-2\/\">Josh Baldwin<\/a>. Josh brings with him 21 years of experience along with an integrous attitude poised to maintain the company\u2019s strong financial operations. <a href=\"https:\/\/creativesigndesigns.com\/people\/paul-wilbur\/\">Paul Wilbur<\/a>, the prior CFO will be relocating for personal reasons, but will remain with Creative in a newly created Chief Administrative Officer role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJosh joins us with a wealth of knowledge in his field, and I know he will be a true asset to our company,\u201d said Jamie Harden, President and CEO of Creative Sign Designs. \u201cOur last CFO was with the company nearly two decades, and we expect Josh will create another long-time employee in this position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Josh comes to Creative Sign Designs from Ball Corporation, where he rose in the ranks from the Plant Accountant to Regional Controller until he transitioned to SteriPack Medical Contract Manufacturing as the U.S. Director of Finance. He has also been greatly involved with Trax Credit Union for more than 10 years and currently serves as the Vice Chairman. At Creative Sign Designs, Josh will handle the strategic financial management of the company through managing the following: Financial Reporting Analysis, Treasury Management, Mergers and Acquisitions activity, Banking and Investor relations and Audit\/Tax.<\/p>\n<p>The last time a CFO role was open at Creative Sign Designs was 18 years ago, before Paul Wilbur sat in the position. As CAO Paul will continue to play an integral role on the executive leadership team, helping steer the strategic vision of company operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CFO role here has always been critical,\u201d said Harden. \u201cWe truly rely on this individual to advocate for the financial well-being of our company while keeping us in line with budgets and capital planning, supporting our sales and operations teammates while ensuring the overall fiscal health of Creative Sign Designs. We know Josh will provide a solid and dependable discernment of the financial operations of our company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Josh joins a highly experienced, tenured and successful executive team at Creative Sign Designs and will work alongside the support of Heritage Growth Partners, an Atlanta based family office that partnered with Creative Sign Designs in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh joined Creative in July 2024 as Chief Financial Officer. He handles the strategic financial management of the company through managing the following: Financial Reporting Analysis, Treasury Management, Mergers and Acquisitions activity, Banking and Investor relations and Audit\/Tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativesigndesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativesigndesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativesigndesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativesigndesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativesigndesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/creativesigndesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativesigndesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativesigndesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativesigndesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativesigndesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}