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

Uli Seuster

Uli has been a small business owner for 17 years across various industries. As such, he was responsible for all facets of the business, grew companies from the ground up and drove significant growth, while acquiring and selling others. Before that, he spent seven years as a strategy management advisor for small to medium-sized organizations during which he conducted comprehensive business assessments, analyzed financial performance, operational inefficiencies, and market dynamics to identify key areas for improvement and to drive transformational change.

In his spare time, Uli enjoys traveling, playing soccer, and the trombone. Occasionally, you’ll see him skydiving with his adult sons or doing a sprint triathlon.

Tracey Sherwood

Tracey has enjoyed two decades of experience in and around the legal industry.  She was previously COO of a rapidly growing personal injury firm and has also enjoyed engineering several newly created roles and departments including Chief Client Service Officer of a legal technology firm and Director of Strategic Pricing in a global law firm.  She has significant experience in KPI management, profitability and reporting, and has coached attorneys, practice groups, executive committees and legal operations professionals in a variety of practice areas on productivity and profitability metrics, pricing strategies, matter management and cross-functional collaboration.   

Tracey is a Certified Pricing Professional and has enjoyed a number of public speaking engagements.  She earned her BS in Music Education from Ithaca College and holds an MBA from the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business. 

Tracey resides in the Charleston, SC area and loves food, wine and the beach.  She has two beautiful daughters, and her dog is her faithful executive assistant.

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.

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.