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Paul has more than 20 years of public accounting auditing experience focusing on serving clients of technology companies, dealerships (auto and heavy truck), other private companies and governmental entities. Paul is located in Eide Bailly’s Salt Lake City office.  Paul is a past President of the Utah Association of CPAs. He currently serves on the School of Accountancy Advisory Board for the University of Utah, the Board of Directors for the Mountain West Capital Network and the Board of Directors for the Ogden Golf and Country Club. He is an avid snow skier and Dallas Cowboys fan.

Casey Adams received his Bachelor of Science in economics from Brigham Young University and later his law degree from the University of Utah. Casey worked as inside council at Pro Star, now Visible Supply Chain Management, since 2011 and became President in 2013. Casey has enjoyed helping clients and watching the business grow by keeping his perspective fresh and strategies unique. Casey appreciates the importance of teamwork, as he firmly believes that working collectively makes us stronger than we ever could be by going it alone.

Greg Bleazard currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Kenworth Sales Company, a 22-location heavy-duty truck dealership in the Western United States. Previously, Greg was the finance director at a multi-national GPS tracking company where he played a key role in multiple domestic and international acquisitions, and managed a worldwide multi-language, multi-currency ERP implementation. He spent nearly a decade in public accounting to begin his career and is a licensed CPA. Greg earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Utah State University. Outside of work, Greg enjoys sports, spending time with his family, traveling, and working on his family’s cattle ranch.

Dan Jimenez is the Chief Operating Officer of Chatbooks, the category leader in mobile photo books and cards. While at Chatbooks, Dan helped Chatbooks scale operations to over 100 employees and fulfillment to 45 countries. Prior to his current role as COO, Dan led the raise of $20M+ of venture financing as Chatbooks’ CFO. Previously, he was an associate at Peterson Partners venture capital fund and a strategy consultant at Accenture. Prior to getting his MBA at BYU, Dan was a team engineer at Ford Racing where he won two NASCAR championships and the Daytona 500. Dan is a frequent guest lecturer at universities on topics of entrepreneurship and strategy. Follow Dan on twitter at @TheDanJimenez.

Alan graduated from BYU with an MBA and began his career at Boeing in Seattle as a cost analyst. He then spent seven years with Ford Motor Company in Michigan with roles in product development, manufacturing, and international operations and business development.  He moved to Los Angeles with AlliedSignal (now Honeywell) and worked in corporate finance. Alan returned to Utah working as a director of finance at Novell and then has worked for the past 15 years primarily as the CFO for several venture backed startups.  Alan is presently the CFO at Weave where he is responsible for finance and human resources.