Ramon A. Rivera
Chief Financial Officer
rrivera@sudoc.com
Committed to do well by doing good.
Ramon A. Rivera, CPA is the Chief Financial Officer for Sudoc. He is responsible for the accounting, finance, taxation, human resources, and administration functions of the Company including investor relations, fundraising, management of risk, recruitment efforts, revenue recognition, and plans for expansion.
Ramon comes with over 30 years of experience in public accounting, international publicly traded finance, and practical start-up experience after holding senior roles at Natural Selections, Fullbridge, Aereo, LoJack International, CitySoft and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has developed a multi-state administration platform, helped grow a venture-backed start-up in educational technology, and was part of one of the first major start-up projects in Boston (Aereo) and a member of its senior team responsible for the legal landmark copyright infringement cases (American Broadcasting Cos. et al v. Aereo, Inc. and WNET et al v. Aereo, Inc.) that were in support of the rights to watch live television over the internet without the need to pay retransmission fees to broadcasters.
Ramon developed and managed the international finance function for a large international security company based in Dublin, Ireland, LoJack, in 30 countries. For CitySoft he helped to develop an activist startup company whose sole social mission was to train young adults on website creation related skills committed to creating job opportunities for residents of urban communities. Prior to that, Ramon received his technical formation as a Senior Tax Manager at an international certified public accounting firm.
Ramon has over 20 years of non-for-profit board level participation and community involvement, inclusive of serving as an advisor to various startup projects in Massachusetts and in Puerto Rico. He has relevant community non-for-profit-and grass roots experience including being the electoral Treasurer for the President of the Boston City Council re-election campaign, the Vice President of the Puerto Rican Festival of Massachusetts, one of the founders of the Boston Chapter for Hispanic CPAs, was on the first Board of Directors of the Latino Professional Network and currently serve as a Board Member of the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA) under the auspices of Massachusetts Governor Charles Baker.
He is a Certified Public Accountant and a lawyer with an LL.M. degree in Taxation from the Graduate Tax Program of the Boston University School of Law.