Dave Meschke
Senior Vice President, Finance
Dave Meschke, Senior Vice President of Finance for Treliant, is an experienced finance and accounting professional with significant experience supporting the domestic and international operations of consulting businesses. He combines his deep analytical skills and industry knowledge with his technical proficiency in developing solutions and delivering guidance to support decision-making, enhance profitability, drive growth, and support strategic initiatives.
Prior to Treliant, Dave worked at various levels up to division Chief Financial Officer for Promontory Financial Group, an IBM company. In these roles, he was responsible for many measures of the financial management of the business, including establishing the annual budget and periodic re-forecasts of expected financial performance; preparing financial reporting packages; preparing presentations to executive management and periodic presentations to other parties; facilitating revenue forecasting processes; evaluating the pricing of opportunities; analyzing business-wide, regional, and practice- and project-level profitability; and calculating and reporting on employee utilization. Importantly, he was instrumental in the November 2016 sale of the business to IBM.
Previously, Dave worked at various levels up to senior manager at KPMG LLP, delivering audit and risk advisory services to a range of clients, including a public telecommunications company, a private educational marketing services company, a private consultancy, and the U.S. subsidiary of an international public aerospace and defense company.
Dave holds an MS in Accounting and a BS in Business Administration from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.