Nick Pettinella

Chief Financial Officer, AWare Technologies

Nick Pettinella is a senior financial executive with over 25 years of experience as CFO in financial reporting, processes, controls, and management. He has participated in multiple financings in the form of public equity, and private debt and equity; negotiated and managed the purchase, sale and divestiture of several companies, and has been through the IPO process twice managing the financial affairs of a publicly owned company.

Pettinella has served as consulting CFO of Lilliputian Systems, Inc., a development stage company utilizing breakthrough miniature Fuel Cell on a Chip™ technology to power mobile electronic devices. Pettinella has also been consulting CFO of Harmony Line, Inc., a computer-based software and services company that enables users to compose music, and consulting CFO of VehicleSense, Inc., a wireless sensor-based parking and vehicle information services company. Pettinella served as CFO of IronBridge Networks, Inc., a terabit router development company, and CFO of Intermetrics/AverStar, Inc. a $200 million software development and software services company acquired by The Titan Corporation.

Pettinella began his career as a CPA with Coopers & Lybrand, now PricewaterhouseCoopers, in their Boston office. He received his MBA from Babson College and his BS in Accounting from Bentley University. He also completed the programs of Corporate Financial Management at Harvard Business School and Executive Financial Management at Stanford University.

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