DAN SMITH

Position: Finance Director

Education:  Bachelor of Business Administration, Major: Accounting, Iowa State University

Years Experience:  More than 30 years overall in various roles as an accountant, auditor, controller, financial advisor, operations manager, and tax preparer.

Position Description: Dan manages the closing processes for the Capital Markets group and provides guidance to clients with FINRA advertising submissions.

Accreditations/Awards/Honors: CPA, PFS (Personal Financial Specialist), Securities Registrations-7, 24, 27, 63

Family/Hobbies: Dan has been married since 1983 and has five children.  Dan’s hobbies include backpacking, camping, woodworking, and restoring old Ford trucks.

Money Quote: “It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.  When you pay too much, you lose a little money – that’s all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot—it can’t be done.  If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.” —John Ruskin