Brian Carroll has served as Accel’s Chief Financial Officer since 2014.
Prior to joining Accel in 2014, Mr. Carroll was the Chief Executive Officer of Calumet Holdings International (photographic and lighting - retailer and manufacturer) consisting of 7 operating companies throughout the U.S, China and in Europe.
Prior to joining Calumet, Mr. Carroll became Vice President of Finance for Chef Solutions Holdings– a food manufacturing subsidiary of Lufthansa Airlines which was then sold to the private equity arm of Jay Alix Partners (American consulting firm best known for its work in the turnaround space).
Prior to joining Chef Solutions, Mr. Carroll was the principal for LCK Consulting which provided complex financial and litigation-related consulting. Additionally, from 2002 to 2004 Mr. Carroll was appointed as Special Master mediating complex financial litigation for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Mr. Carroll is a C.P.A., and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance from Loyola University Chicago, a Master of Business Administration degree from DePaul University and a Juris Doctor degree from University of Illinois-Chicago John Marshall Law School.