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Professional Experience

The following are excerpts of Dale Kemp’s professional background and credentials in both corporate and institutions of higher education:

Professional Experience

The following are excerpts of Dale Kemp’s professional background and credentials in both corporate and institutions of higher education:

Interim CFO

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

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.

Vice President for Finance and Operations, Treasurer Wheaton College and Graduate School

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

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.

Senior Audit Manager & Tax Manager Price Waterhouse Los Angeles, California and Honolulu, Hawaii

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.

Executive Vice President Chief Financial Officer KB Urban

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.

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer MBK Real Estate, Irvine, California

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.

Education and Credentials

Dale A. Kemp, CPA, MBA

Education and Credentials

Dale A. Kemp, CPA, MBA

Education

B.A., University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California)

M.B.A., Chaminade University (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Certified Public Accountant, California (#136728)

Certified Public Accountant

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).

Professional Other and Memberships

(past and present)

  • Consortium for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), Commissioner of Financial Officers
  • National Association of Colleges and Universities Business Officers (NACUBO), member and speaker
  • Adjunct Professor – Biola College teaching Audit and Tax
  • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), member
  • California Society of Certified Public Accountants, member
  • Urban Land Institute (ULI) – member and council members of Commercial, Retail, and Senior Housing Councils
  • Bible Study Fellowship – teaching leader (young adults)
  • Russian Leadership Ministries (RLM), Board Chair and President
  • College Church in Wheaton (CCIW), Deacon Board Chair
  • Evangelical Free Church, Laguna Hills, CA, Elder
  • L’Abri – student under Francis Schaeffer (Switzerland and Holland)

5 Loaves, 2 Fish

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.

Photo

The ancient mosaic on the floor of the

Tabgha Church of the Loaves and Fishes

on the Western shore of the Sea of Galilee

5 Loaves, 2 Fish

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.

Photo

The ancient mosaic on the floor of the Tabgha Church of the Loaves and Fishes on the Western shore of the Sea of Galilee

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