Brian Desilets, Chief Financial Officer

Brian Desilets is the Chief Financial Officer of Clarity Consulting Corporation. Brian has 15 years of managerial, organizational, financial, and accounting experience with 10 years of experience in governmental accounting. Brian was a standout in college, earning a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree with a 3.97 GPA from LeTourneau University, with a minor in Business Administration and Management General.

Brian excels at turning around under-performing companies on short deadlines with marginal spare capital, while reworking their business models as needed and implementing tight financial controls to prevent a repeat of the conditions which caused the downturn in the first place.

Highlights of Brian’s expertise in corporate turnarounds include:

• October 2011: Brian accepted a turnaround project for a company which lost a large portion of their market share after a Vice President left to open a competing firm with the stated goal of pilfering his former firm’s clients. Brian devised a recovery plan and worked with the company’s insurance carrier to cover the damages committed by the VP, while as a bonus also getting the insurance carrier to pay for the company’s legal counsel plus additionally compensate for the time spent solving the problems. Today, the firm is more profitable than they were prior to the fraud, even though they have yet to recover all of their lost clients.
• April 2012: In less than one year, Brian saved a Texas local governmental agency on the verge of financial collapse, ending the fiscal year with a surplus. Five years later as of December 2017, this agency now has surplus funds on hand more than $1.5M. Brian accomplished this remarkable rapid turnaround without an increase in tax rates or outside financing, primarily by effectively managing expenses alone.
• September 2013: Brian agreed to take on a corporate fraud project for an agricultural wholesale Texas nursery where the farm foreman and the accounting manager colluded to defraud the business, leaving the company close to bankruptcy. Within two years after Brian implemented financial controls and worked through their new business manager to oversee operations, the company was back on a firm financial footing with financial operating reserves to spare. Additionally, the organization has since been able to spend cash for several capital expenditure programs including propagation stations, tree stations and a massive rehabilitation of their ground storage tanks for their irrigation system.