By definition, I’m a consultant, product developer, public speaker,  finance guy, director and producer.  My mission is to help creative companies to get paid for their hard work in a timely and effective manner.  My specialty is studio billing for companies in Hollywood - reducing A/R accounts and increasing the bottom line by designing effective, sustainable billing and cost accounting solutions.

My roster of clients includes PR firms, Marketing companies, Post-Production houses, and other suppliers to the major studios.

My efforts helped one client reduce their A/R with the studios from 12 million to less than 1 million.  Such reductions saved countless thousands in lost interest, repaired the relationships with the studios that were damaged by incorrect billing, and created a lasting IT solution that reduced human error to almost nil.

Another client, a small but vital supplier to clothiers, wardrobe departments, designers and studios, was buried in debt brought on by unpaid invoices and a lack of cost accounting procedures to help price work properly.  I installed an IT solution that gives the client a dashboard into the state of the business on a daily basis, and helps identify problem clients.  The client also is able to price jobs correctly now because they now know the true cost of a given job.

In the 1990’s I was involved in managing budgets and events for the Italian government, planning and budgeting art openings, film festivals, and musical performances for the Italian Cultural Institute.

In 1997, I joined New Line Cinema, handling the A/P side of the creative business, learning the ins and outs of line producing.  Later I used these skills to help out a number of producers at Fox Television for series and during pilot season.

In 2000, I developed a series of value-added services and products for Interpacket Networks, a pioneering satellite internet provider.  I then began my world travels, promoting the products in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa, culminating in a series of presentations to the United Nations European Digital Economy Conferences in Romania and Georgia.

My lifelong love of languages, travel and foreign cultures inspired me to learn four languages in addition to English: Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese.

I am the treasurer and past regional chair for the Los Angeles Sacred Harp, a musical organization promoting early American choral music.  http://fasola.org