Where the Passion Begins
At Fox & Partners we pride ourselves in creating a positive, productive and profitable workplace ecosystem. Each team member is a piece essential to that puzzle.
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Hurley Fox
Principal
Hurley started Fox & Partners to provide business owners with better business professional services. He enjoys helping small business owners get a better understanding of their finances and putting together reports and goals to assist the owner get to where they want to be. In addition to owning Fox & Partners Hurley is on the board of multiple non-profits and has an equity stake in other small businesses. He enjoys reading, see his GoodReads, hanging out with his wife and walking his dog.
Bena Rossi
Partner, CFO
Revena is a highly accomplished finance professional with expertise in business expansion, operations, and finance. She is a strong leader with a proven history of achieving results through the development of strategic business plans and alliances. She is experienced in developing financial structures for complex organizations, managing crucial teams, and possesses in-depth operations knowledge. She is skilled in leading colleagues, management, and staff through significant organizational change while maintaining focus on leadership, teamwork, and performance excellence. In addition, Revena’s skills in financial modeling, data analytics, reporting process optimization, cost reduction, revenue enhancement, and software and technical development will further enhance our ability to serve our client’s unique financial and business needs.
Before joining the Fox and Partners team, Revena spent the past 20 years as a financial executive in the healthcare field.
Along with this experience, she brings client-specific expertise through her work in a Small Business Incubator, being responsible for accounting software and reporting setup/implementation for business owners of various sizes and industries.
Revena is a graduate of Shippensburg University and is currently pursuing her Master’s in Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University, with expected graduation in June 2022.
Michael Ragnetti
Accountant
Michael joined Fox & Partners as Hurley’s Executive Assistant in 2019. In addition to assisting Hurley with many day-to-day tasks, he works on clients’ QuickBooks and manages a non-profit organization’s hundreds of spreadsheets and data points.
Previously Michael worked with Hurley to prepare financial reports, to implement a new tax filing process and prepared and assisted in the completion of over 300 tax returns as the office manager at an accounting firm.
Michael spent three years in the health and fitness industry with a primary focus in gym management and operations while studying business management and psychology at Centenary University.
Michael is a QuickBooks ProAdvisor.
Chris Howarth
Controller
As a controller for Fox & Partners, Chris provides cash flow management, analytical forecasting and strategic reports to our clients. Chris has extensive knowledge of various accounting software and has created complex automated forecasting spreadsheets.
Chris has guided businesses from the brink of bankruptcy to record performance, including turning around a franchise restaurant with over 50 employees in less than two years. Chris provided a strategy that created significant gains after 6 consecutive years of losses.
He recouped tens of thousands of dollars in tax overpayments, in less than two weeks, for a contractor by identifying past omissions and designing reports to get to a better bottom-line.
And he has implemented processes to monitor daily cash flow, forecast cash requirements and save countless hours and fees for a commercial property management group.
Having worked with hundreds of businesses of varying sizes, Chris is now pursuing his CPA with targeted completion in 18 months.
Jeannie Sommers
Controller
Jeannie is a versatile accountant and former CPA who has a strong background in private and public accounting. She has worked with both non-profit and for-profit organizations holdings managerial positions in each. Prior to Fox & Partners, Jeannie was the Executive Director at the Franklin County Area Tax Bureau (FCATB) where she supervised the daily operations and administration of FCATB, managed FCATB employees, reconciled cash daily, and tackled planned and unplanned projects to improve the processes, security, efficiency, accuracy, internal controls, and reporting.
Kathy Buck
Accountant
Kathy has worked in various accounting positions for more than 20 years. Kathy has worked for government, non-profit and for-profit businesses and entities. Kathy and her family have lived and traveled all over the world from Ghana to Belgium to Vienna. Kathy and her family currently live in Pennsylvania where she enjoys doing the day-to-day accounting for dozens of businesses while looking out at the wildlife living on her lake.
Let’s Work Together
With a wide range of knowledge, including finance, marketing and vision building and an ability to bring-in and communicate with various specialists to ensure optimal care, Fox and Partners is uniquely suited to bring to the business world what the medical world has had for decades – a warm first point of contact, a professional with a breadth of knowledge and coordination for all of your business and financial needs.
