Ecliptic Management Profiles
Dr. John Scully
Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary
Broad experience in management and staff roles such as corporate controller, director of finance, auditor and educator. Officer and Ecliptic co-founder.
John is responsible for managing all Ecliptic financial accounts (including billing and collecting) and related reporting requirements, corporate insurance and HR matters and coordination with our independent public accountants. He also gets involved with partnering activities and shapes the firm's annual R&D and budgeting processes.
Under John's leadership over eight years, Ecliptic has experienced no accounts receivable writeoffs. Ernst & Young has audited the company's 2005, 2006 and 2007 financial statements.
A CPA with extensive accounting experience in high-technology, engineering services and consulting firms, large and small. Before Ecliptic, John was Director of Finance at BlastOff! Corporation, Corporate and Regional Controller at Aon Consulting (a $650M international employee benefits and human resources consulting organization), Regional and Group Controller at Weston (a $350M engineering and consulting company), and Auditor at DuPont. He has extensive experience with corporate information systems, project tracking systems, auditing and human resources. John has published several book reviews in the Journal of Accountancy and Internal Auditor and has taught graduate and undergraduate finance, accounting and ethics classes at several major universities. Currently he is teaching finance classes for Pepperdine University's Executive MBA Program.
- Teaching accounting at Pepperdine University, School of Business and Management
- Ph.D. in Philosophy at University of Pennsylvania.
- M.B.A. with Accounting emphasis at Temple University (Philadelphia).
- M.A. in Philosophy at University of Delaware.
- B.A. in Philosophy at West Chester University (west of Philadelphia).
