Kate Cornish Booth

Kate Cornish Booth is a seasoned and results-driven executive. Throughout her career, Kate has garnered valuable experience expanding emerging businesses, providing strategic counsel, and integrating multiple acquisitions. Her cross-functional perspective makes her a valuable asset to any leadership team seeking expertise accessing capital, operational performance management, acquisition strategies, and organic business expansion.

Kate's investment banking career began at Smith Barney, evolving through Citigroup, Wit Capital, and culminated at Deutsche Bank. Her track record includes successfully raising equity and debt in both private and public markets, offering strategic advice on acquisition financings, and leading sell-side assignments for a diverse array of clients. Kate's first project on Wall Street was a preferred stock deal for Bank United of Texas FSB, and her last was the sale and financing of Tommy Hilfiger to Phillips Van Heusen. Her favorite project was the sale of Cannondale to Dorel Industries.

Kate has held several C-suite finance and operating roles. On the financial front, she has excelled in writing business plans, constructing financial models, developing FP&A KPIs, managing budgets and expansion plans, leading diligence sessions, and effectively communicating with investors, boards, and committees. Operationally, Kate has adeptly managed Agile development teams, orchestrated business integrations, and devised go-to-market strategies that scaled revenues, from $100k to $1.5mm per month. Additionally, she has designed and implemented a global HR strategy that addressed the recruiting, onboarding, training, benefits, compensation, and career development needs of a rapidly growing SaaS/managed service organization.

Kate Cornish Booth holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, a BA in Honors Political Science from Villanova University, and an AS in Textile Design from FIT in NYC. During her junior year, Kate attended the University of Glasgow.