Kathy Kinder, CFO

Kathy Kinder is a former CFO with over 30 years of experience managing accounting, HR, legal and facilities. She focused her expertise as a CFO for tech companies, facilitating over 13 acquisitions. These acquisitions cover private asset and stock sales, carve outs of public companies, and public take private situations.

An original founder of LiftBridge, Kathy is now largely retired from direct client work but still contributes as a mentor to those wanting to grow their CFO skills, or for founders needing basic background or increased practical understanding of business and finance.

Kathy, along with her co-founders Kay Whitaker and Ashley Vukovits, won the 2022 Mira Award for Service Partner of the Year. The judges for the Mira Awards, presented by TechPoint, ‘determined LiftBridge’s effectiveness with its clients is likely to have a lasting impact on the success of the Indiana tech ecosystem startups and scale-ups well past the critical five-year survival mark’.

Kathy is a dog lover and former owner of a doggy boarding and daycare business.