Michael L. Laney, President
P.O. Box 6565, Portland, Oregon 97228-6565
Ph: 503-946-8798; Fax: 503-206-4357
Cell: 818-422-9040
Email: michael@mlaneyassoc.com
http://www.mlaneyassoc.com/Michaellaney.html
Michael Laney has over thirty-five years of senior level executive management experience as President, Chief Operating Officer or Chief Financial Officer for divisions of Fortune 50 companies as well as smaller, privately owned for-profit companies and not-for-profit organizations. During the last four years, Michael has split his time between Portland and Los Angeles serving the non-profit sector providing CFO and consulting services for four non-profit organizations as well as being on two for-profit advisory boards and one governmental entity.
His expertise is in the areas of board advisory services, strategic planning, SEC and financial operations, marketing and promotion, management information systems, organizational planning, leadership and communication skills. Industries served include energy, education, consumer products, aerospace, electronics and metals distribution, manufacturing, and the entertainment industry. Laney was a senior executive at Walt Disney Feature Animation and then founded and led Warner Bros. Feature Animation as Senior Vice-President, building two animation studios that developed, produced and subsequently released three animated movies.
Michael also has entrepreneurial experience by founding and building his CPA firm in Beverly Hills during the 1970’s. He obtained his CPA certificate in California and was a tax and small business professional at Haskins & Sells, now Deloitte & Touche. Michael has also held teaching positions as Assistant Professor of Accounting at California State University, Northridge and was on the teaching staff for the Management Course for Presidents for the American Management Association. He is the co-author of the book Introverts and Extroverts in Love, Making it Work When Opposites Attract, New Harbinger Press, March, 2007. He and his wife of 43 years, Dr. Marti Olsen Laney, wrote this together after the success of her two previous books, The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World and The Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child: Helping your Child in an Extroverted World (both by Workman Publishing).
Executive Management Positions:
Senior Vice-President: Warner Bros. Feature Animation
Vice-President of Operations: Walt Disney Feature Animation
Office of the President, Vice-President, CFO: Dacor
President: Children’s Wonderland, Inc.
President: Cool Roof of California, Inc.
Vice-President, Controller: Ducommun, Inc.
Sr. Vice-President, COO and CFO: Monarch Mirror Door, Inc. (now part of Stanley Works)
Chief Financial Officer: Education Management Systems, Inc.
Chief Financial Officer: Opportunities for Learning, Inc.
Chief Financial Officer: The Energy Trust of Oregon, Inc.
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Teaching Positions:
Assistant Professor of Accounting, California State University, Northridge, 3 and ½ years
Accounting Instructor, California State University, Los Angeles, two summers
Instructor, Management Course for Presidents, American Management Association
Professional Associations:
President, Financial Executives International, Portland, Oregon Chapter
Member, Financial Executives International, 27 years
Member, National Association of Corporate Directors, Northwest Chapter
Member, Society for Human Resource Management
Member, Association for Psychological Type
Member, American School Counselors Association
Member, Financial Executives Networking Group
Member, Institute of Management Accountants
Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Member, California Society of Certified Public Accountants
Member, Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants
Senior Fellow, The Davis Group, Ltd.
Member of Hillcrest Associates
Board Associations:
Industrial Metals Supply Company, Board of Advisors—current
Kravitz & Company, Board of Advisors—current
Metro-Regional Services for Portland, Oregon—Audit Committee—current
BDS Marketing—Board of Advisors—in hiatus
Perceptronics, Inc.—Board of Directors (NASDAQ)—past
Children’s Wonderland, Inc.—Board of Directors (OTC)—past
Cool Roof of California, Inc.—Board of Directors—Private—past
Ducommun, Inc.—Chief Accounting/SEC Officer (AMEX)—past
Education:
MBA, Management, University of California, Los Angeles
BS, cum laude, California State University, Northridge
Management Course for Presidents, American Management Association
Program on Negotiation, Harvard University
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Qualifying Program, CAPT
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