Palm Springs, Ca.,USA - July 14, 2010, Palm Springs, Ca.,USA - Environmental Service Professionals announced that Peter Donato has been appointed as the new chief financial officer.
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Mr. Donato joins Environmental Service Professionals after nearly 20 years of progressive financial and accounting management experience in large, well developed companies as well as small, entrepreneurial companies.
Mr. Donato began his career in public accounting in 1992 with Ernst & Young, Cleveland before joining General Motors' financial team in 1994 where he assumed increasing roles of responsibility at both the divisional and corporate levels until his departure in 2000.
Mr. Donato remained in the auto industry as the divisional CFO for Honda Express North America, a collection of logistics, warehousing, and transportation companies based in Central Ohio.
Mr. Donato accepted Divisional Controller positions with the Scotts-Miracle Gro Company where he went on to be Controller of the ~$750M Liquids Group overseeing familiar brand names such as Ortho and Miracle Gro as well as the Round-Up brand joint venture.
In 2003 Mr. Donato joined Uniform Tubing, Inc. as Divisional Controller for this private equity backed medical device contract manufacturer. In this role, Mr. Donato was an instrumental part of the team that subsequently acquired and integrated Minnesota-based, publicly traded, Medsource Technologies.
In 2004, the Company became Accellent and Mr. Donato became a senior member of the team in the role of Divisional CFO and VP of Finance for the Cardiology division of the Company.
Additionally Mr. Donato served as CFO with privately held Gamma Medica-Ideas, an early stage medical imaging company. He was involved in establishing the initial accounting reporting as well as the IT infrastructure.
Most recently Mr. Donato served as CFO leading Iris International, a NASDAQ traded medical diagnostics equipment manufacturer. Mr. Donato graduated magna cum laude from The Ohio State University (Fisher College) with a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration. ■