Meet the Team

Katelyn Giuseppe

Recruiting Associate

Katelyn recently graduated from the University of South Carolina in May of 2023. In college, Katelyn played club volleyball and was involved in Panhellenic leadership roles in which she grew her communication and recruiting skills.

As a Recruiting Associate, Katelyn collaborates with the recruiting team to find, prep, and develop relationships with candidates. She works hard alongside the team to cater to the needs of our clients.

In her free time, Katelyn enjoys cooking, hiking, traveling, and spending time with friends.

Lisa Zoch

Business Development Associate

Lisa graduated recently from Bucknell University in May of 2023, where she played Division I volleyball and studied international relations, economics, and Spanish. In the summer of 2022 prior to her graduation, Lisa interned with BGS as a Business Development Intern where she worked with the Business Development team.

Since rejoining the BGS team in June 2023 as a Business Development Associate, Lisa has been working to further progress Business Development initiatives a long with continuously learning from the team to build lasting relationships with clients and candidates.

In her free time, Lisa enjoys spending time with family and friends, as well as keeping up with volleyball and traveling.

Riley Garcia

Business Development Senior Associate

Riley is a Business Development Senior Associate here at BGS. Prior to joining in June 2023, he worked in the Human Capital Management Industry. He gained valuable experience in sales and client relationship management. Riley attended James Madison University where he graduated with a degree in Marketing.

Since joining BGS, Riley has been a contributor to the back-office operations including business development, client relationship management, and recruiting. Riley brings an enthusiastic and eager approach, striving to further cultivate and grow strong relationships with BGS clients.

In his free time Riley enjoys spending time with friends and family, playing golf, and traveling.

Rex Hampton

Manager

Rex is a Manager at BGS Consulting. After graduating from the University of Virginia with
honors, he joined KPMG as an auditor for over 4 years. He is a CPA and has over 25 years of
accounting and finance experience.

Rex joined BGS in March of 2023 and he plans to serve many of BGS’ dynamic clients using his deep knowledge & experience in accounting and finance. 

In his free time, Rex enjoys exercising and spending time with his family.

Joe Grabow

Senior Manager

Joe Grabow is an experienced finance and accounting leader with 20+ years of experience in technology, travel & hospitality, eCommerce, pharmaceuticals, and veterinary medical industries ranging from start-ups to global public companies. A consummate analytical problem solver and builder of scalable programs Joe thrives in challenging situations: business transformation, hyper growth, start-ups, turnarounds, business integrations and M&A transaction support.  Joe’s approach includes an emphasis on customer empathy and collaborative solutions.

Joe built and led the Expedia Group’s first technology finance function, supported the integration of Hotels.com and Hotwire into Expedia Group and championed enterprise technology and customer service initiatives generating hundreds of millions in annual savings.  He also led globally distributed retention marketing teams at Expedia for ten years.  Prior to Expedia Joe led finance and accounting functions for private equity owners including Thayer Capital and Golder Thoma & Cressey.

Joe enjoys time with family, travel, cooking and golf in his spare time.

Brian Mitchell

Advisory Board Member

Brian Mitchell is an Advisory Board Member at BGS. Brian is an icon in the Washington community with a career spanning 14 years of professional football, television and radio broadcasting, motivational speaking, podcasting, and supporting numerous charitable organizations and philanthropies.

As an Advisory Board member, Brian will work with our leadership team to help develop new markets and new client opportunities and strengthen our presence in the DMV market.

Jim Galus

Manager

Jim is a Manager at BGS. After graduating from the University of Michigan in 2013, he went to work in the audit group at KPMG Detroit for three years. He later joined the Siegfried Group as a road warrior consultant traveling across the United States working on clients in various industries and in numerous functional roles. After three years with Siegfried, Jim joined BGS in 2021.

As a senior consultant at BGS, Jim provides accounting and financial reporting support to our clients, combining his audit background with years of consulting experience. Jim has experience at both public and private clients.

In his free time, Jim enjoys rooting for Michigan sports and traveling.

Jim Potochny

Director

Jim is a Director at BGS. After graduating with an MBA from Stanford Business
School, he began his career in finance, accounting and corporate development at
Hewlett-Packard. Jim went on to become CFO of several venture backed early stage
technology companies in Silicon Valley, then moved out to the DC Area, where he was
CFO of a publicly traded renewable energy focused private equity firm, and CFO of a
private equity backed IT services company in the middle market. Jim has a BS in
Electrical Engineering from Yale University and is a Virginia CPA.

At BGS, Jim primarily focuses on managing BGS teams providing finance and accounting
consulting services to private equity backed middle market companies, including
technical accounting services (e.g. purchase accounting, revenue recognition, and
lease accounting).

In his spare time, Jim is a professional level violinist and spends time with his
family in France and the US.

Tyan Morgan

Senior Consultant

Tyan is a Senior Consultant at BGS. In 2014 she graduated with her Bachelor’s in accounting from the University of Central Florida and started her career in the municipal securities market where she provided post-issuance compliance services to a variety of clients. She later graduated with her Master’s in accounting from the University of Michigan before transitioning to public accounting as an auditor for PWC, then to JBG Smith, a REIT in the Washington DC market, where she performed various accounting functions for a large mix of projects.

Following this she started her career in consulting at The Siegfried Group before joining BGS in 2022 As a Senior Consultant, Tyan utilizes her years of accounting experience to help clients solve a variety of issues and meet their financial goals.

During her free time, Tyan enjoys fitness, traveling, spending time with loved ones, and pursing new hobbies.

Jeff Russell

Senior Consultant

Jeff Russell is a Senior Consultant with BGS Consulting. After graduating from Penn State University, he began his career as a Staff Accountant and progressed throughout his career to increasing roles and responsibilities within the accounting and finance field at places like ETrade, Morgan Franklin Consulting and K12.  Jeff has overseen and performed a variety of roles including close process, M&A integration, pre-IPO readiness, Audit readiness, Financial Reporting, FP&A, Technical Accounting and Sarbanes-Oxley.

As a Senior Consultant at BGS, Jeff helps lead our CFO Advisory Practice.  Jeff brings his breadth of experience and knowledge across many industries and company size to affect positive changes and improvements to our clients.

Scott Wilson

Senior Manager

Scott Wilson is an accomplished professional with 20+ years combined experience across accounting, finance, and consulting, including 10+ years in SEC reporting roles. His industry experience includes healthcare, financial services, solar, and manufacturing. Scott thrives in unique environments, collaborating with diverse audiences by leveraging a deep understanding of people, culture, and individual experiences.

As Senior Consultant for BGS Consulting, Scott served as the acting Director of SOX for Novavax from May 2021 – January 2022, and is currently serving as a senior consultant for business process improvement. He also helped a pre-commercial biotech company through growth and commercialization by advising them on internal controls for their inventory process.

In his free time, Scott enjoys traveling, grilling and spending time with his family.

Martin Coster

Director

Martin is the COO of BGS Fed. He spent his first 20 years out of college in the Government Contracting. He has worked in publicly traded and small startup companies, Initially working directly with the U.S. Navy in Fiscal management he has worked in government support roles and also industry best practices while at General Dynamics he held division financial leadership roles to include program management covering revenue in excess of $500M and finally leading the accounting department for AIS managing revenue in excess of $2.7B. In 2016 he shifted from his consulting to work in Finance and Accounting with Lucent Government Systems later acquired by CACI.

In 2022, Martin join BGS Fed as the COO working client engagement and business development, He uses the broad spectrum of organizations that he has supported to bring a mindset of best practices on systems, organizational design and information flow and analytics.

In his free time, Martin is an active private pilot, he enjoys tennis and golf and spending time with his family.