Al Hamood

Samuel Allen (Al) Hamood has been an EVP, Finance and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for several global companies during this tenured career.  He has been instrumental in developing global strategies and driving those strategies into operational successes, both domestically and internationally.  His roles span across many industries including:  Financial Services, Healthcare, Information Technology, Consumer Product and Media and Entertainment. During his tenure he has managed Strategy, Finance, Accounting and Operational Functions, including: Domestic and International Finance, Accounting, SEC Financial Reporting, Treasury, Investor Relations, M&A, Global Contact Call Center and Operational Excellence and Board / Audit Committee related functions. Mr. Hamood has lead several companies through merger and acquisition processes and public readiness processes/IPO processes, delivering significant value-enhancing transactions, including two high-profile private equity sales transactions, several capital market transactions and a highly successful initial public offering along with several secondary’s.

Mr. Hamood is currently EVP and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer for ATI Physical Therapy Inc, and was previously the the EVP and CFO for both Change HealthCare Corporation (a recently formed merged company owned by both Blackstone and McKesson) and the Transunion Corporation.  Previous to those roles, he was a Senior Vice President & CFO for the U.S. Region of Hewlett Packard (formerly EDS), and too held the positions of Vice President of Investor Relations and Senior Director of Corporate Strategy and Planning.  Prior to that Mr. Hamood spent seven years with the Walt Disney Company in progressing finance and strategy leadership roles and began his career with Deloitte and Touche.  Mr. Hamood too currently resides as a Senior Advisor for Advent International.

A graduate of the University of Iowa, where he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance, Mr. Hamood also earned his Juris Doctorate, with Distinction, from Southwestern University School of Law and passed the Illinois Bar. Mr. Hamood is also a Certified Public Accountant, currently in inactive status.  Mr. Hamood is a Board Member and Audit Committee Chairman of The Culligan Corporation, and a Board Member for Chicago Run (Non-for Profit) and the former Audit Committee Chairman.  He previously sat on the Finance Advisory Council for the Tippie School of Business at the University of Iowa, and on the Advisory Board for the Ernst and Young CFO Advisory Council in the Midwest.