Cherry Bekaert Welcomes Achieved Client Product CEO to Propel Business Innovation
Cherry Bekaert (the Agency) strengthens its group with the appointment of Jason Hodell because the Agency’s Industrial Manufacturing Chief with a concentrate on advisory, sustainability and strategic tax. In his new function, Hodell will assist additional develop the Agency’s strategic choices throughout industrial merchandise, shopper items, manufacturing and different associated trade segments. With 20 years of expertise working within the shopper items, manufacturing, retail, and the expertise industries, his information of each monetary and operational points makes him an excellent advisor.
Constructing on the Agency’s present industrial manufacturing tailor-made choices, Hodell will work carefully with the Agency’s Strategic Development and Innovation follow, combining a strategic strategy with actionable insights and digital transformation. On this interval of provide chain disruption, his focus may even focus on shaping the Agency’s newest considering on options resembling shopper and industrial manufacturing technique growth, onshoring and decarbonizing world provide chains whereas optimizing federal, state and native incentives.
“I’m delighted to have Jason’s experience bolster our advisory choices. As our new Industrial Manufacturing Chief, his store ground expertise mixed together with his spectacular operational background matches hand and glove with our advisory and strategic tax professionals,” mentioned Srikant Sastry, Advisory Chief at Cherry Bekaert. “This appointment reinforces Cherry Bekaert’s dedication to preserving abreast of recent options for at present’s producers.”
Jason Hodell is a former CEO of Skullcandy, the unique youth audio way of life model primarily based in Park Metropolis, Utah. Throughout his tenure, Skullcandy was named the Walmart Client Electronics Provider of the 12 months in 2022, a “US Greatest Managed Firm” by Deloitte and The Wall Avenue Journal in 2020, 2021 and 2022, and led “mass-market” headphone unit and greenback market share (NPD) in North America in 2021. Previous to his function as CEO, he served as each the CFO and COO of Skullcandy and helped lead the general public firm by means of a take-private transaction in 2016. Previous to becoming a member of Skullcandy, Hodell was the CFO of Shopzilla (now Connexity, a Taboola Firm), the CFO / COO of Transfer Networks (now SlingTV), the Senior Director of Enterprise Operations at Digex, and served within the Know-how Funding Banking group of JPMorgan.
“I’m thrilled to affix the Cherry Bekaert group and stay up for collaborating with shoppers and sharing insights to foster steady enchancment throughout the shopper items and industrial manufacturing areas,” mentioned Hodell.
Matt Brady, the previous Industrial Manufacturing Chief, now the Nationwide Core Development Chief for Industries & Markets at Cherry Bekaert concludes: “Good manufacturing is reshaping the trade, however discovering the suitable stability between folks and expertise is essential. Suppliers have to be reliable and well timed within the provide chain, driving a transfer towards digitization to stay aggressive. We proceed to speculate closely in our Agency’s trade know-how. Jason brings vital classes realized primarily based on a few years of working as an trade chief that we are able to share in choices to our shoppers.”
Jason obtained his B.S. in Economics (Mathematical) from the US Navy Academy at West Level after which served for 5 years as an Infantry Officer within the U.S. Military. Jason earned his M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton Faculty, College of Pennsylvania.
