Brad DeMent is the leader of the Finance & Accounting shared services practice at ScottMadden. He also specializes in Global Business Services (GBS) design and build with extensive experience in the Latin America region as well as Europe and Asia-Pacific. With more than 25 years of domestic and international consulting experience, Mr. DeMent brings extensive experience designing, improving, and merging shared services and GBS operations. Although his focus is on shared services strategy and implementation, he also has experience in building multifunction shared services operations in Mexico, Central America, and South America. His areas of industry expertise include manufacturing, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, media/entertainment, and defense. Prior to joining ScottMadden, he worked for Booz Allen & Hamilton where he managed defense and intelligence projects for the federal government. He earned a B.S. in industrial and systems engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a minor in industrial/organizational psychology. He earned an M.B.A. with a focus on finance from George Washington and Marymount University, summa cum laude.