Mario Patone

Mario brings over 30 years of expertise to his role as Chief Financial Officer and of Vice President of Corporate Development at AscellaHealth. Prior to joining AscellaHealth, Mario served as CFO for a national professional services company, specialty pharmacy and an international durable medical equipment manufacture. Before working in the private sector, Mario was the partner in charge of Transaction Advisory Services for a top ten national CPA and consulting firm. Mario’s experience includes working with business owners to help identify key finance and operational issues and providing in-depth analyses, enabling shareholders to gain a clearer understanding of their organization. He has worked primarily with privately held entrepreneurial businesses, public corporations and small to mega private equity funds. In addition to due diligence, Mario has an extensive background with financial statement auditing, modeling, forecasts and data mining to assist businesses with post-deal integration projects, investigative transactional analysis, inventory utilization and working capital disputes. Mario has managed a wide variety of service offerings, including accounting, auditing, transaction advisory services, and other assurance services on behalf of clients throughout the Americas and Europe. Additionally, Mario was a principal contributor and co-author of COSO’s “Internal Control Over Financial Reporting – Guidance for Smaller Public Companies”. Mario is also an active member of his local community, volunteering time to religious and not-for-profit organizations.