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Arturo Rodriguez is currently the Senior Vice President of Finance at Mohawk Group, Inc. Mr. Rodriguez started at Mohawk in late 2017 to build out its financial reporting and compliance. Since joining, Mr. Rodriguez has driven the conversion from cash to accrual basis accounting, completed the implementation of Mohawk’s first Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), completed the first two audits of Mohawk’s financials and was an integral part of the leadership team raising Mohawk’s Series C equity financing and refinancing its debt lines. Mr. Rodriguez sits on the executive leadership committee and currently spends more of his time in various Human Resource, Legal and Operational projects. Most recently he founded the Company’s product safety compliance committee as part of Mohawk’s first voluntary product recall.
Prior to joining Mohawk, Mr. Rodriguez spent five years as Chief Accounting Officer and Global Controller for the Piksel Group (formerly Kit Digital Inc.). Mr. Rodriguez was part of the leadership team which reorganized Kit Digital through a structured bankruptcy and reorganization ensuring the survival of the group, saving 800 jobs and rebranding KIT Digital to Piksel. The root cause of the bankruptcy was financial fraud and embezzlement uncovered by the new finance leadership team, including Mr. Rodriguez, resulting in the arrest, prosecution and conviction of KIT Digital’s former CEO, COO and CFO. At the end of Mr. Rodriguez’s tenure at Piksel, he served as the Interim COO, based in the United Kingdom, leading 500 people worldwide through a functional and strategic reorganization of the Piksel Group splitting its business into industry focused business units.
Mr. Rodriguez spent the majority of his career at Atari. Over that eleven year span Mr. Rodriguez, was promoted seven times ultimately holding the title of CFO of North America in 2006 and the relocating to France as the Deputy CFO worldwide in 2008. Throughout his career at Atari, Mr. Rodriguez was instrumental in various strategic reorganizations to provide the company financial flexibility as the video game industry migrated through various cycles including the shift from traditional platforms to online and mobile formats. When Mr. Rodriguez officially left Atari in late 2011 it was finally EBITDA profitable.
Mr. Rodriguez started his career at Arthur Andersen and is a NY State CPA. Mr. Rodriguez is graduate of Hofstra University (Class of 1997) and currently resides in New Jersey with his family.
