The following are excerpts of Dale Kemp’s professional background and credentials in both corporate and institutions of higher education:
Interim CFO consultant in critical phase after retiring President and VP Finance departed. allowing for significant academic and administrative restructuring. Working with the Trustees and Cabinet, I provided leadership in significant restructurings; we reduced the operating budget twenty percent, refinanced loans back to investment grade, and sold excess real estate providing $80 million cash.
Interim CFO in during critical phase. Immediately after the Seminary’s relocation announcement, the two most senior financial executives departed. I re-engaged remaining administrative staff and developed a non-existing three-year financial plan. This proved operationally successful and led to a balanced budget with adequate time to hire the new CFO.
Chief Administrative Officer reporting to the President and the Board of Trustees for the college, graduate school, and the five institutional centers with locations in three states. Responsible for all finance, investments, facilities, academic and administrative technology, human resources, legal, risk management, financial aid, control, debt, procurement, auxiliaries, and campus protection.
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Wheaton College Trust Company, a national bank chartered by the United States, with over $400 million of investments managed.
Eight years of diversified and increasingly responsible experience in both the audit and tax departments of this international public accounting firm in the Los Angeles Audit Department as Manager on homebuilding clients, Kaufman & Broad (now KB Home) and Shapell Industries, and in the Honolulu office responsible for the efficient, profit-generated operation of the audit department.
Lead financial executive of the high-density, mixed-use subsidiary of KB Home, a publicly-traded homebuilder with $11 billion of revenue and delivery of over 32,000 units.
Lead financial executive of the high-density, mixed-use subsidiary of KB Home, a publicly-traded homebuilder with $11 billion of revenue and delivery of over 32,000 units.
B.A., University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California)
M.B.A., Chaminade University (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Certified Public Accountant, California (#136728)
Tax Manager, Price Waterhouse, Los Angeles, California
Senior Audit Manager, Price Waterhouse, Honolulu, Hawaii
(1978-1988)
Eight years of diversified and increasingly responsible experience in both the audit and tax departments of this international public accounting firm in the Los Angeles office.
Manager on homebuilding clients, Kaufman & Broad (now KB Home) and Shapell Industries, and in the Honolulu office. Responsible for the efficient, profit-generated operation of the audit department; prepared financial statements and income tax returns for a wide variety of clients. Interfaced with senior management on all engagements.
(Note that in 1983, Dale left the firm for a two-year period to assist a major Hawaii client, Theo H. Davies & Co., Ltd., in their operational restructuring).
(past and present)
Jesus demonstrated to his disciples how scarce resources can provide for a needy crowd. “Where can we get enough bread in this remote place?” Through probing questions, identifying existing resources, and prayer – abundance materialized. Jesus took a young boy’s five loaves and two fish, prayed, and amply fed thousands.
The ancient mosaic on the floor of the
Tabgha Church of the Loaves and Fishes
on the Western shore of the Sea of Galilee
Jesus demonstrated to his disciples how scarce resources can provide for a needy crowd. “Where can we get enough bread in this remote place?” Through probing questions, identifying existing resources, and prayer – abundance materialized. Jesus took a young boy’s five loaves and two fish, prayed, and amply fed thousands.
The ancient mosaic on the floor of the Tabgha Church of the Loaves and Fishes on the Western shore of the Sea of Galilee