BCS is pleased to welcome Phil Clements as our guest speaker on Friday, March 18, 2011. Phil is Managing Director at Cathedral Consulting Group, LLC.  Cathedral provides consulting to small- to mid-sized private companies on key business matters to help them grow.

Phil’s experience gives him unique qualifications to aid companies and their owners in these important transitions: he was Vice President of Standard & Poor's Corporate Value Consulting (CVC) division after leading CVC through the process of acquisition by S&P. Phil previously ran Coopers & Lybrand’s Corporate Finance Practice for the U.S.  He has served on the boards of both Coopers & Lybrand and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Phil also has a passion for developing future generations. He is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Business at The King’s College in New York City, and serves as an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University, teaching Business Valuation.  Phil is a frequent lecturer and writer on business and economics.

Phil holds a LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law, a J.D. from the University of Puget Sound School of Law, a M.T.S. from the Reformed Theological Seminary, and a B.A. from the University of Puget Sound. Phil also holds the designation of Certified Financial Planner.