Cal Hoagland

Cal Hoagland

Cal Hoagland has over 30 years of senior financial executive experience in late-stage private and public companies from multinational, enterprise companies to high-growth start-ups.

Cal’s expertise includes leading strategic planning and execution, including preparing private companies to become public and successfully implementing and executing SaaS. He has executed $450M in debt and equity financings, helped integrate acquisitions as well as manage divestitures, and has participated in 7 successful IPOs.

Cal’s deep portfolio of financial leadership experience includes SaaS and other software companies, manufacturing companies (including networking and medical equipment and devices), telecom and consumer-oriented companies. He has been CFO, Interim CFO or Executive Financial Advisor at Heavy Construction Systems Solutions (HCSS), MasterClass, Aktana, 8×8, Keep Truckin, Malwarebytes, Survey Monkey, Imperva, Rocket Fuel, Meltwater, NeoPhotonics, Restoration Hardware, My Shape, SolarCity, JDS Uniphase, TiVo, Sigma Designs, Avanex Freeborders, Interwave and Phasecom.

Cal has a solid track record of developing and implementing creative and innovative solutions to complex strategic, public company, and finance issues to grow the value of company. He has successfully grown a number of venture-backed technology companies, preparing them for successful IPOs and other public and private equity and debt offerings.

Cal is a growth-oriented, trusted business partner to CEOs, boards and investors and understands how to aggressively execute on strategic objectives while managing cash, scaling operational controls and laying a solid foundation for growth. He is also passionate about mentoring C-suite management team colleagues and key hires.

He has directly mentored and managed finance, accounting, treasury, investor relations, legal, HR, IT, procurement and facilities teams.

Cal began his career in Public Accounting at Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) in the Silicon Valley and National offices, received his BS in Accounting from San Jose State University, and is a CPA (inactive).