Jeff Adler, Vice President, CPA

As a graduate of Michigan State (BA-1972) and Ohio State (MBA-1993), Jeff is a follower of Big Ten sports and wonders what will happen to the Ohio State football program now that Jim Tressel has resigned. While it’s been a few years since he’s been on stage, Jeff spent many years in regional musical theater as Harold Hill (The Music Man), Fred Graham (Kiss Me Kate), Curly (Oklahoma!) and Sky Masterson (Guys and Dolls). His current hobbies are building sand castles (ask him for a picture of the BlackLine Fortress) and trying to spoil his six grandchildren – including two adopted from Siberia and Korea.

His passion for good accounting transcends BlackLine. He has written articles for Strategic Finance (check out the July 2011 issue) and Journal of Accountancy and is a speaker at accounting conferences.

Jeff Adler joined BlackLine in 2006 as our Vice President and Product Expert. Jeff’s career includes 6 years on the audit staff at PricewaterhouseCoopers and over 30 years of controllership, financial management and consulting experience for both privately held and publicly traded companies. Jeff was the Controller-Treasurer for a Seligman & Associates, a publicly traded multi-state real-estate developer. He was also the Manager of Financial Reporting for Total Petroleum, Inc., a publicly traded French owned oil company that was primarily a refiner and marketer. Jeff also served as CFO-Treasurer-Controller for a medium-sized, privately held recycling company, Automated Recycling, that eventually was sold to Waste Management. He was also a District Controller for Waste Management, overseeing annual revenues of $600 million and supervising 14 division controllers. Jeff also has been an independent financial consultant working with a diverse client base providing assistance with systems implementation, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and establishment of managerial accounting procedures and information gathering.