CROWD FUNDING NJ - Key Persons
Founder and President of Crowd Funding NJ, Inc. Christopher Frey has significant experience in the entrepreneurial, start-up and growth company business community. Crowd Funding NJ, Inc. (CFNJ) is New Jersey's first authorized and registered Equity Crowdfunding Portal. CFNJ's Portal was launched in March 2018. Now New Jersey businesses can raise up to $1 Million in funding and any New Jersey resident can invest in these offerings using the CFNJ Equity Crowdfunding Portal. This is a significant, and much needed, new source of funding for New Jersey's entrepreneurial, start-up and growth company business community. This is also the first time that the general public has had the opportunity to invest in start-up and early growth stage high potential companies.
Prior to starting CFNJ, Frey Founded and is Managing Director of CFO Solutions. Inc. a financial and business advisory firm providing growth-stage companies with outsourced CFO leadership. Specializing in high growth and turn-around situations Frey has been retained by technology start-ups and family- owned businesses, serving as CFO for more than 25 companies. Frey has raised more than $200 million in capital through his ability to create financing alternatives and collaborate with equity investors and lending institutions, which has earned him a reputation as an innovative and pro-active leader.
Prior to launching CFO Solutions, Inc., Frey served as the Chief Financial Officer for KPMG Peat Marwick's manufacturing retailing & distribution (MR&D) line of business where his efforts were instrumental in spearheading the turnaround of this $900 million Audit, Tax, and Advisory business. Earlier, as Controller, Frey led the worldwide accounting and control operations of Grace Cocoa, the world's largest processor of cocoa beans and a $750 million division of W.R. Grace & Co., during its formation and significant growth through M&A activity.
Frey has an MBA from Columbia University and a BS in Accounting from Lehigh University. He is also a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. Frey has been the treasurer and a board member of the New Jersey Business Incubation Network (NJBIN), an editorial advisory board member of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJCPA), and the SEC small business capital forum representative for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). As a way of giving back to this community, Frey has been an Entrepreneur-in- Residence at NJIT's EDC Business Incubator for more than 15 years where he has advised literally hundreds of start-up and entrepreneurial companies.