Richard Szefc is Chief Financial Officer of The Knot and a member of the Board of Directors. Having joined the company in June 1999, Szefc is responsible for all financial aspects of The Knot. He has had a long and distinctive business career, which started at the international auditing and consulting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co., where he eventually served as a partner in the audit practice division. While there, he developed a long-range strategic plan for the worldwide Accounting and Audit Practice.
Szefc then spent eight years at Random House, the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher, as executive vice president and chief financial officer. While at Random House, he was responsible for managing a staff of more than 200 across several departments, including accounting, finance, budgeting and planning, and legal, and oversaw a budget of more than $20 million.
Szefc graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. |