Jim Pardee

Jim Pardee

Jim Pardee (1941 – 2026), Co-Founder and Distinguished Alumni

Jim co-founded FLG Partners and spent more than 35 years as a senior financial executive in the high-technology and life science industries. His industry experience included telecommunications, biotechnology instrumentation, software, semiconductors, semiconductor equipment, and medical devices. In addition to his strengths in financial management and technical accounting, he often managed the legal, information technology, human resources, and facilities functions.

Jim brought extensive experience in SEC reporting, including an engagement as interim CFO of a public company that had lost its CFO and senior accounting staff. Another public company engagement included a significant M&A transaction, debt restructuring, and successfully avoiding a threatened NASDAQ delisting. These matters were successfully resolved during Jim’s engagements, while the clients’ SEC filings remained current.

He served as a Director, Secretary, and Chief Financial Officer and was a co-founder of Applied Biosystems, a highly successful public biotechnology research instrument company. He worked with several technology growth companies, where his expertise in liquidity strategies, initial public offerings, company sales, rapid growth, and international expansion offered quick and practical solutions to operational issues and provided a seasoned perspective on strategic issues. He began his career with Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte & Touche) and was formerly a Certified Public Accountant in California.

Jim earned a BSEE with Distinction in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard University.

“We engaged FLG Partners when we were in the final stages of negotiations to be acquired by a major Japanese company and suddenly lost our senior financial executive to a medical leave. Jim Pardee, the FLG partner we selected, quickly developed a financial forecasting model that allowed the senior team to dynamically analyze various revenue and expense alternatives and provide the financial forecasts required for the closing process.  Jim assumed leadership of the financial group, made some key staffing improvements, and led the group through a full mid-month audit (required by the transaction) as well as the year-end audit.  Jim also led the financial integration with our new parent, including new reporting requirements, additional audit activities, and critical calculations related to determining the final purchase price amount. His leadership was instrumental in our successful close of this deal for SiTime.”

RAJESH VASHIST, CEO, SITIME