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Outsourced CEO’s/CFO’s/COO’s/CMO and Controller

Beth Freeman

Beth Freeman has held a variety of positions including Law Firm Administrator, Owner of a Professional Coaching Business, and Real Estate Investor. Beth was previously with a non-profit organization with 12,000 members as a Sr. Director and Executive Team Member. She was responsible for the development of two departments, seven Directors, and multiple teams consisting of 135 leaders, coaches, and support staff in the creation and implementation of programs across seven Chicagoland locations. This included overseeing the delivery of multi-location weekly events for thousands of members, leading monthly workshops, and delivering keynote messages for annual conferences. Beth is most proud of her volunteer work in her community over the last few decades, mentoring women of all ages and stages of life. Beth has been leading people and developing businesses for 28 years.  In her spare time, Beth enjoys long walks with her husband, game nights with her kids, reading to her two grandkids, riding horses, and journaling.

Charlene Spilker

Charlee has held a variety of positions including Sr. Tax and Accounts Manager, Payroll Tax Manager, and was previously with a Finance Director with a multi-state family law firm where she was responsible for business development, budgeting, forecasting, management and reconciliation of operating and trust accounts in each state, as well as improving and implementing SOPs.  Charlee is most proud of detecting and preventing fraudulent activity that saved the company from losing over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. She has almost twenty years of finance, tax, and accounting experience in several industries.  She graduated Magna cum Laude, earning her Accounting degree at Regis University.

Charlee enjoys spending time with her husband, children, and grandchildren.  She and her husband Matt have 4 horses, 2 dogs and 3 cats, which have all been rescued.  Charlee enjoys training the dogs and breaking and training the horses as well.  She and Matt enjoy the outdoors, going camping, riding, hiking and hunting as often as possible.

Terri Larson

Terri Larson has held a variety of positions including President of an Insurance CUSO, Vice President of Retail Banking and Lending, Vice President of Product & Strategy and was previously with RE/MAX Holdings as Vice President of Operations where she was responsible for leading the first of its kind, nationwide Motto Mortgage franchising brand, from onboarding and opening to the ongoing growth and development of the franchise network. Terri is most proud of the success she’s achieved in helping organizations become more profitable and how she’s helped them experience exponential growth. With over 25 years of strategic leadership and organizational development in the banking, insurance and franchising space, Terri also has bachelor’s degree in business administration/management and holds a graduate banking degree from the University of Wisconsin.

In her spare time, Terri enjoys riding her Harley, playing golf, and spending time with friends and family. You can often find Terri frequenting her favorite restaurants around town which are likely to include exceptional Mexican and Indian cuisine!  

Please join us in welcoming Terri to How to Manage a Small Law Firm and wishing them success in this new opportunity.

Hector Sierra

Hector has held a variety of positions including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer for small law firms. He was previously with ORBA as the Chief Financial Officer where they were responsible for accounting, financial reporting/analysis, budgeting, cash flow 401k plans and payroll. Hector is most proud of streamlining financial reporting by implementing processes that ensure operational excellence and provide timely and accurate data to make informed decisions. Hector received his MBA from Thunderbird – School of Global Management and has 19+ years-experience in the legal field.

In his spare time, Hector enjoys spending time with his daughter, travelling, and running/biking on the Chicago Lakefront.

Please join us in welcoming Hector to How to Manage a Small Law Firm and wishing them success in this new opportunity.

Charles Chronis

Chuck has extensive experience as an operations leader and c-suite advisor in both the Legal Services and Financial Services industries.

He has held a variety of leadership positions including Chief Operating Officer for a large personal-injury law firm where he was responsible for operational execution in Marketing, Sales, Case Management from intake to settlement, Financial Controls, Information Technology, and Human Resources.

Previously, Chuck was a managing consultant for both Big-4 and boutique advisory firms where he advised C-suite clients in the Financial Services industry on executing transformational changes across people, process, and technology.

Originally from Boston, MA, Chuck has lived in several states through New England and the Midwest. He now resides in Charlotte, NC.

Nigel Gonzalez

Nigel has held a variety of positions including Strategic Business Process Manager and Senior Sales Manager and was previously with Equifax as Global Operational Excellence Manager, where they were responsible for standing up, running and scaling global operations, KPI/OKR design and performance, quality and process engineering, continuous improvement, reporting, among others. Nigel is most proud of building the Center of Excellence that transformed the way the company serviced the internal and external clients within the B2C division. He also holds certifications in Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, PMP, Agile Practitioner and Scrum Master.

In his spare time, Nigel enjoys spending time with his family, adventure, developing new skills and water sports, which he used to practice more back when he lived in Costa Rica, where he is originally from.

Please join us in welcoming Nigel to How to Manage a Small Law Firm and wishing them success in this new opportunity.