Larry Braden

Larry Braden is an experienced Chief Financial Officer. He is an accomplished finance and business executive with more than 30+ years diverse experience, earned his Big-4 CPA with Deloitte & Touche; performed litigation, valuation and expert witness consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers and independently; and earned his Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate with BearingPoint’s World-Class Finance practice. A sample of his client experience ranges from advising numerous technology start-ups to leading major international companies including Microsoft, T-Mobile, Fisher Communications, PIMCO Investments, SilverCreek Capital, Corbis, Nordstrom, among others. Larry founded Washington Brokers in 2009 and quickly became one of the largest business brokers in the state when he acquired the former Seattle VR Business Broker team in 2010, which had sold more than 1,000 businesses over the last 30 years. He merged Washington Brokers into Keller Williams Greater Seattle to help create a national business sales team. Previously, Larry worked in various Audit, Controller, and Corporate Governance positions of increasing responsibility for Paramount Pictures, Time Warner, Universal Music Groups’ eLabs, and Paul Allen’s Investment Company at Vulcan. At Universal, he contributed in due diligence and finance integration of investments and acquisitions including MP3.com, Emusic.com, Napster, GetMusic, among others. In addition to full-scope direct controller experience at Vulcan and Universal Music Group, Larry has significant experience in start-ups, due diligence, acquisitions, public accounting, internal and operational audits, Sarbanes-Oxley, Corporate Governance , ERISA compliance, expert witness work in litigation and valuation, cash flow analysis, commercial real estate sales and leasing, selling businesses off market, and solving complex financial problems often with companies in either start-up mode, growth or financial distress. Larry earned his BS in Accounting from the University of Southern California and MBA in Marketing & Strategy from the Anderson School at UCLA, and is a designated real estate broker of record in both CA and WA, and Certified Public Accountant (CPA-Current - Inactive). Started up Early Growth Financial Services in Seattle to provide CFO On-Demand and accounting services to local startups, small, and mid-sized businesses. Small businesses can now access a full suite of outsourced financial services from a network of small business financial experts.