GROWTH & IMPACT WEEK SPEAKER LINEUP
The speakers at Growth and Impact Week are award-winning advisors, operators, and thought leaders who don’t just understand growth and impact, they execute it. Each speaker has been selected for their ability to translate methodology into real-world implementation, sharing how they’ve built in-demand practices through intentional, ROI-driven relationships with business owners. Expect candid perspectives, practical frameworks, and honest discussion around what works in today’s market, from client selection and trust-building to accountability, culture, and value creation. This is not a stage of theorists; it’s a room of practitioners committed to helping you apply what you learn and accelerate results in your firm.
Raymond Monteleone
Meet Ray Monteleone:
Ray Monteleone is President of Paladin Global Partners, a business management consulting firm, and Partner with Dannelly, Monteleone & Associates, a full-service CPA firm. Ray focuses on strategic management, problem solving,...
ABOUT RAYMOND
Meet Ray Monteleone:
Ray Monteleone is President of Paladin Global Partners, a business management consulting firm, and Partner with Dannelly, Monteleone & Associates, a full-service CPA firm. Ray focuses on strategic management, problem solving, mergers & acquisitions, compensation consulting, growing companies, and senior executive mentoring for clients worldwide in industries such as healthcare, high tech, manufacturing, education, financial institutions and not-for-profit organizations. He held numerous directorships such as Rexall Sundown, First American Railways, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railway, Rush Holdings, and Pointe Financial Corporation, and he currently chairs the Advisory Board of Algy Costumes and is a member of the Board for Chen, Moore & Associates, chairing the Ethics & Governance Committee.
A CPA, Ray was Partner/Tax Director at Arthur Young for the South Florida practice and consultant with Holland & Knight involved in strategic planning & practice development. Ray was VP of Global Corporate Development for Sensormatic Electronics Corporation and interim CFO. He was President of First American Railways, Chairman and Co-CEO for Loren Industries, and Deputy Commissioner, COO/CFO for the Florida Department of Education and was an officer of Laser Spine Institute.
Monteleone serves professional/civic organizations including Florida Tax Watch (member of the Board), Leadership Florida (Audit Committee), Executive Leadership Orientation Committee (Class ’02) and member of the 2017 Planning Committee, Florida Atlantic University Foundation Board, Chair of the Audit Committee and serving on the Executive, Finance and Nominating Committees, and FAU Broward Alumni Council (Past Chairman), Florida Institute of CPAs and member of the Health Care Conference Planning and CPAs in Industry Committee American Institute of CPAs, Leadership Broward Foundation (Past President), was Vice Chair of the Fort Lauderdale Chamber and current member, and member of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance. Previously on the Board of the Broward Education Foundation (Past Chair, serving for 2 terms) and served on the South Broward Hospital District (Commissioner). Ray was named Leader of the Year by Leadership Broward, Outstanding Broward Alumnus by FAU and inducted into its Parliament of the Owls (2010), just to name a few.
Monteleone graduated cum laude from New York Institute of Technology, attended the Arthur Young Harvard Business School program, received his MBA from FAU, and he lectures at universities and professional association seminars.