George Panagiotopoulos

I integrate financial rigor with operational strategy to build sustainable, high-growth organizations. Drawing on eight years of accounting and operations leadership across precision medicine, urban infrastructure, and global philanthropic syndicates, I act as both the architect and the plumber: designing the strategic financial framework while building the operational pipes that make it run.

1. Financial Governance & Multi-Entity Control: Transitioning startups from cash-basis to GAAP, restructuring 400+ legacy accounts into clean 4-dimensional QuickBooks Online models, and governing 14 active ASC 958-605 grants and $5.0M ASC 606 contracts.
2. Operational Scaling & Procurement Rigor: Supporting a 64% global headcount expansion (to 42 staff across US, UK, and international EOR jurisdictions), directing $1M+ NIH award compliance and $1.2M R&D tax credit recoveries, and enforcing IRS 1099 statutes across 172 vendors.
3. Enterprise Systems & Workflow Automation: Hardening corporate data governance as M365 Global Admin (Entra ID, Intune, SAML/SSO) and scripting programmatic Python and PowerShell integrations that synchronize Salesforce, payroll, and general ledger workflows.

A native New Yorker with an MBA in Accounting & Strategy from NYU Stern (EFL Student of the Year) and a BBA in Economics from Loyola University Maryland (Presidential Scholar), I build systems and reusable templates that genuinely help teams move faster while making the first pass audit-ready.