Mr. Shaw is founder and CEO of S&S Financial Services, LLC (www.sandsfinancialservices.com)--a Kansas City based financial services firm.   He has held several senior leadership positions in finance and accounting management at Fortune 1000 multinational firms crossing various industries, including hi-tech, insurance, pharmaceutical, private equity, retail, telecommunications and wholesale. Companies include Ascension Insurance, Aventis Pharmaceutical, Hallmark Cards, Motorola, and Sprint.

In his position at Ascension Insurance, Inc. (a private equity portfolio company owned by two multi-billion dollar private equity firms), he held the position of Senior Vice President, Controller and Interim CFO, presiding over a portfolio of insurance companies valued at over $100 million dollars.

Mr. Shaw has been an invited guest speaker and presenter on the subjects of business performance management/measurement, activity-based costing/management,  balanced scorecards, business process improvements, and shared services at several national and international conferences hosted by the following organizations: The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Consortium of Advanced Manufacturing – International (CAM-I), Armstrong Laing Group, International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC), and the Activity Based Cost Management-Advanced Implementation Group (ABCM-AIG).

He founded and led implementation of a multi-million dollar accounting shared services center for Hallmark Cards, saving the company $4 million dollars annually in the process. Mr. Shaw is also visiting adjunct professor of accounting at Johnson County Community College.

In 2004, Mr. Shaw was a guest speaker at the popular webcast “Business Performance Management Strategies” hosted in San Francisco by Business Finance Magazine and Penton Media. 

He is also founder of the Kansas City Financial Shared Services Consortium (KCFSSC) – a consortium of multinational companies headquartered in Kansas City whose mission is to benchmark best practice performance measures across several industries.

He graduated from Hampton University with a B.S. in Accounting and holds an M.B.A. from Northern Illinois University/University of Kansas.  Mr. Shaw is also a faculty member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).