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Leadership

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Jennifer Almquist, CPA, IRC, FSA
Founder

Mrs. Almquist has more than 20 years of finance, communications and public disclosure experience including investor relations, external financial reporting, corporate finance and accounting.  Since founding Ivy Street Advisory in 2010, she has worked with micro cap, small cap and mid cap companies across a wide variety of industries, including high tech, mining, oil and gas, telecom, technology, manufacturing, financial payments, and more.  Before founding Ivy Street Advisory, Mrs. Almquist was the Director of Investor Relations and SEC Reporting for Crocs, where she assisted the company in regaining credibility with Wall Street through proactive, transparent, timely and consistent financial disclosure during the company’s 2009/2010 turnaround.  Prior to Crocs, Mrs. Almquist served in a variety of investor relations and SEC Reporting roles at various Colorado public companies, including StarTek, TeleTech, Coors Brewing Company and MacDermid, where she gained a well-rounded, comprehensive understanding of public financial disclosure, integrated external communications, and SEC and stock market regulation. 

Mrs. Almquist began her career as an auditor in the Denver office of Deloitte and Touche.  She is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Colorado, an Investor Relations Charter (IRC) holder, a Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) credential holder and a member of both the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) and the AICPA.  She currently serves on NIRI’s IRC Examination Scheme Committee, having previously served on the IRC Examination Development Committee. She also served as Vice President and Communications Chair for NIRI’s Rocky Mountain Chapter from 2013 to 2017 and won the individual chapter leadership award from NIRI in 2016 in recognition of outstanding service to the chapter during her tenure.

Mrs. Almquist earned a B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in accounting from the University of Colorado. 

Client Testimonials

Testimonials

“We are very pleased to work with Jen Almquist and Ivy Street Advisory. They have performed financial analysis of organizations across our international network and statistical analysis of growth in the global profession, and have also helped us streamline our accounting processes. Not only is Jen’s work accurate and reliable, but she contributes insights that add value over and above the calculations.”

- Eric Cauble, Chief Operating Officer, Financial Planning Standards Board, Ltd.

“Jen is a multi-talented communicator. She can take a complicated subject and unravel it to help ensure understanding and buy-in for diverse stakeholders. She is able to quickly grasp any concept and immediately provide value. She is also a joy to be around and can always be counted on to follow through. I highly recommend Jen to assist your organization.”

- Renelle Darr, President, Insight Coaching and Consulting LLC

“Jennifer truly understands how to integrate the complex components of financial reporting. She has deep knowledge and experience with SEC compliance requirements and believes that financial reporting is a valuable extension of the company’s financial and strategic goals. She is committed to leading an efficient, ethical and transparent financial reporting process.”

- Andre Fall, Adjunct Faculty, University of Denver School of Accounting and former Corporate Internal Audit Director at Crocs, Inc.

“Jennifer was my 'stand-in' for 3 months during maternity leave and did a fantastic job. Not only did I have immediate comfort that she quickly grasped the capital structure and financial nuances of our business but she was both respectful and simultaneously firm in dealing with our institutional owners and asking for help or advice from me as necessary. I strongly recommend her services. She is bright, astute when it comes to balance sheets and financials and very fun to work with.”

- Tamar Gerber, Vice President Investor Relations and Financial Communications, ACI Worldwide, Inc

“Thank you so much for everything you did for us the past few months. I was very impressed with how quickly you learned our business. From an IR perspective, we are normally very quiet, but the last three months were rather eventful…You did a tremendous job handling all of the noise and made my job so easy.”

- Scott Behrens, Chief Financial Officer, ACI Worldwide, Inc.