Dennis Farkos is an experienced early- and growth-stage financial executive with over 25 years of proven ability to drive results through incisive analysis, cross-functional teamwork and timely execution. Most recently, Farkos joined Ceipal, to serve as its President & Chief Financial Officer. Ceipal is a leading AI-powered Talent Acquisition platform that provides full-lifecycle management of the talent acquisition process for Healthcare, Corporate and Staffing verticals.

Prior to joining Ceipal, I served as Chief Financial Officer for Panopto. I partnered with the founder CEO and an original group of tier 1 investors to grow Panopto from a startup to a profitable, professionally managed SaaS software company. As CFO, we grew revenues 10X and had more than 10M global users, a 95% Gross Retention Rate, an NPS score of 70+ and an award-winning culture. We sold the business to a private equity investor a > 5X ARR.I

I also served as the CFO of Carnegie Innovations, a partnership formed with Carnegie Mellon University to commercialize its IP portfolio. One of the successful results of my work with the portfolio was Acrobatiq, which was named the country's #1 edtech venture at ASU-GSV and the first-ever higher-ed investment made by the Gates Foundation.

Prior to that I served as Senior Vice President, CFO and Treasurer of Confluence, a leader in financial technology for asset managers. While there, I conceived a predictable, recurring revenue model that allowed Confluence’s revenues to grow rapidly from less than $1m to over $32m annually and enabling the firm to become the recognized global leader in financial data consolidation and automation.

I was instrumental in one of the largest high-tech private equity transactions in Pittsburgh during that period when Confluence secured a $114 million valuation during its 2006 recapitalization by Polaris Ventures. As a result of my efforts on this transaction and in the years leading up to it, I was voted 2006 CFO of the Year by the Pittsburgh Business Times.