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Christopher F. Carroll is Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies.
Mr. Carroll joined Interpublic with comprehensive experience in SEC reporting and financial statement presentation, revenue recognition, Sarbanes Oxley implementation and compliance, forecasting and budgeting, and merger and acquisition accounting.
Most recently, Mr. Carroll was Controller of the McCann WorldGroup. Prior to joining McCann in 2005, Chris served as Chief Accounting Officer at Eyetech Pharmaceuticals where he was responsible for all aspects of the financial organization including the controllership function, regulatory reporting (SEC) and financial press releases, factory and cost accounting, accounting policy, tax accounting and compliance, budgeting and forecasting, the internal audit function and commercial product distribution.
Prior to Eyetech, Mr. Carroll was the Chief Accounting Officer at MIM Corporation, the Chief Accountant and Controller of Avaya Communications, and Financial Vice President at Lucent Technologies. Before his tenure at Avaya, he spent 10 years in public accounting at the New York offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), specializing in technology and communications. While at PwC, Mr. Carroll was the lead senior manager on some of the firm's largest accounts and participated in over 40 business acquisitions, ranging in size from $20 million to $40 billion, and managed over 25 separate engagements.
Mr. Carroll is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Institute of Internal Auditors , and the New York State Society of CPAs. He earned his Bachelor of Science with honors in accounting and business law from the Saint Frances College in New York.
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