OUR TEAM
Henry Hilbert
Henry has spent his career partnering with clients, understanding their challenges and delivering exceptional service. Henry's career began at Deloitte, where he developed a passion for problem solving and client service focused on Financial Services in New York. He has applied that passion to build high performing teams at several market-leading consulting services organizations including Tatum in Northern California and Resources Global Professionals in New York, Northern California and Hong Kong. Over the course of his career and different markets served, Henry has worked with clients from emerging growth to F1000, Private Companies, Private Equity and Venture Capital. Henry has delivered accounting and finance solutions to a number of key industries including Financial Services, Technology, Consumer Products, Industrial/Manufacturing, Healthcare, Biotech and Not For Profit.
Henry launched Mission Rock Consulting as he saw years of consolidation in the interim and accounting advisory space remove many of the specialized, high touch boutique firms from the market. These specialized boutiques of the past were often acquired by staffing firms that significantly changed the model, consistency and quality or by much larger firms that wiped out the unique culture that made them special in the first place. Henry’s goal is to rebuild that high touch boutique organization where people and impact are prioritized while offering world-class service. This is what drives Henry every day.
ADVISORY BOARD
Lori Hadley
Lori Hadley is a seasoned Executive with over 25 years of business experience across several large consultancies including Situs, Resources Global Professionals and Parsons Consulting where she had overall responsibility for setting strategy, driving global growth, managing profit and loss, team recruitment and practice leadership.
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Often managing the largest and most complex client relationships. Over the course of her career, Lori has managed multi-year, transformation projects across accounting, finance, human resources and information technology. Known for a pragmatic, data-driven leadership style, Lori has led cross-functional teams and multi-national projects, aligning operational frameworks with long-term business goals. Her experience spans building financial infrastructure for scaling companies, leading international finance and accounting functions, and advising C-suite leaders on organizational strategy and growth.
In her free time, Lori enjoys traveling with her husband and 2 children, racquet sports and playing poker. She is active in animal rescue, fostering cats and dogs and donating her time and resources to many Tri-State rescues.
Lori graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Science in Sociology and Psychology.
Tom Hadley
Tom Hadley is a results-driven Chief Financial Officer with a proven track record of accelerating growth and maximizing enterprise value in the consumer products industry. With deep expertise in corporate finance, strategic planning, and operational execution, Tom has successfully led several companies through high-value exits to strategic acquirers…
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including BODYARMOR SuperDrink and Pirate Brands. His financial leadership has fueled transformative growth, optimized capital structures, and enabled seamless M&A transactions—from readiness through post-deal integration.
Throughout a career in Finance spanning over 35 years, Tom began as a CPA in Public Accounting before moving on to both public and private companies. Known for a hands-on, analytical approach and a deep understanding of the consumer landscape, Tom brings both financial rigor and commercial insight to every engagement. His ability to lead finance teams, manage investor relations, and drive cross-functional alignment has made them a pivotal force behind successful strategic sales and liquidity events.
Tom now sits on several Boards and invests in and advises multiple early stage and mature companies.
Mahesh Krishnamurti
Mahesh is a proven change agent with international, multi-cultural experience, and a focus on driving leadership alignment and business strategy at the executive/board level. He is an ardent promoter of collaborative, connected, and inclusive cultures. He returned to New York in 2021 after 13 years in India as MD for the India and MEA regions with RGP.
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Mahesh has also served as CFO of multiple companies including Worth Media Group and Henry Schein. As an advisor and strategic leader, he works with PE and VC portfolio companies and innovative ventures that are on the ground and at scale.
Until July 2022, Mahesh served as Independent Director on the Board of YES Bank, India’s 4th largest private bank, at the invitation of the Reserve Bank of India (India’s Central Bank). Helped avert the bank’s collapse and turn it around within two years. Drove key ESG initiatives as a member of the board ESG committee. He was also Chair of the Nomination and Remuneration, and IT Strategy Committees, and member of several other committees including the Credit Committee of the board.
Mahesh is a Founding Advisor at BuzzOnEarth (pioneering online social impact & ESG hub) with a mission to catalyze future generations and youth communities to drive planetary regeneration. Key programs for achieving this include: Start-up accelerators, India Model United Nations, and sustainability brand storytelling through collaborations with corporates, government bodies, foundations, and educational institutions. Mahesh is also a Limited Partner at Arka Venture Labs (VC Fund) where he is a mentor and advisor on strategies for selling into enterprises and identifying the value and impact of ESG drivers.
Mahesh currently serves on the Advisory Board at Supply Chain Resources Group (SCRG), a firm that delivers technical manufacturing, supply chain, and operational solutions to some of the largest technology companies in the world. His focus is on delivering business growth and further expansion of international footprint in India and Asia as a whole.
Raised in Thailand and Switzerland with a United Nations upbringing, Mahesh studied in the UK and US (BSc, London School of Economics; MBA, NYU Stern School of Business, (where he is an Executive-In-Residence at NYU Stern School of Business, as regular guest speaker and coach-mentor to MBA and Executive MBA students) and management programs at the Wharton School, and MIT, Sloan School). He speaks English, French, multiple Indian languages, with latency in Thai. Mahesh enjoys trekking and tennis, and believes in maintaining physical fitness as a competitive edge. He successfully summited Mount Fuji on July 4, 2019.
Anthony Persico
Anthony is a seasoned financial executive with over three decades of experience building and leading sophisticated family office operations. He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Marron Capital LLC, a New York–based private investment company and family office he helped establish in 2010 for a prominent New York family.
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Following the patriarch’s passing in 2019, Anthony assumed full leadership of the office, overseeing strategic planning, investment operations, estate administration, and a cross-functional team of professionals. Anthony also holds the role of Chief Financial Officer at Wood Next LLC, a family office for a Silicon Valley technology founder, where he advises on all financial aspects in a part-time capacity.
Earlier in his career, he founded Ascot Advisors LLC, where he built and led a full-service family office managing a $900 million portfolio spanning traditional investments, private equity, and real estate. Previously, he was a Senior Investment Consultant and Tri-State Regional Leader at Deloitte & Touche Investment Advisors, where he grew the firm’s high-net-worth practice from $10 million to over $1 billion in assets. He began his career at Deloitte & Touche LLP in the Securities Audit Group, specializing in derivatives valuation and auditing for major Wall Street firms.
Anthony holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and a BS in Accountancy from Villanova University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). A long-time advocate of education and philanthropy, he served for over two decades as a board member and investment officer of the Bergen Community College Foundation. He is also actively involved in several prominent family office networks, including CCC Alliance, Multi-Generational Family Office Council, FORGE, and the Fidelity Family Office Client Advisory Board.
Juan Carlos Bertini
Juan Carlos is currently CFO at Solely Fruit Snacks, a disruptive fast-growing company in the better for you snacking space. Prior to that he was CFO/COO of Lenny & Larry’s and Think! products, both PE-backed players in the protein snacks category. Earlier in his career, Juan Carlos spent 14+ years at HJ Heinz and Del Monte Foods in finance and operations roles at various business units.
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Between 2008 and 2013 he was the CFO for the $2B Del Monte Consumer Products division while simultaneously serving as VP of Operations Finance for the entire company, providing financial leadership in managing almost $3B COGS across the Consumer and Pet Products businesses.
Juan Carlos resides in Los Angeles, CA with his family, enjoys endurance sports, travel and sharing a glass of wine with good friends.
Mark Gillenwalters
Sales and supply chain leader with 35+ years of experience across the foodservice and consumer packaged goods industries combining expertise in sales, operations, logistics, and commercialization. Mark currently serves as Director of Operations at Death Wish Coffee, a TA Associates portfolio company.
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Mark earned a Bachelor of Arts from Binghamton University and an Associate of Applied Sciences in Culinary Arts from The Culinary Institute of America. He began a career as an Executive Chef and Kitchen Manager with leading organizations including The Walt Disney Company and Houston’s Restaurants before transitioning into foodservice sales and management with Sysco, where he spent 20 years in various leadership roles. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling with family, cooking, fishing, camping, snowmobiling, and home improvement projects.
Joan Varrone
Joan has been a CFO for over 20 years primarily at venture backed technology start-ups. As CFO Joan has taken a company public, raised multiple rounds of debt and equity and built the infrastructure for scaling operations. Prior to her time working with early stage companies, Joan held senior finance roles at large public multinational corporations.
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These roles included Head of Financial Planning, International Tax, and Treasury at a company that sold in 40 countries, had 13 product divisions, and factories in 12 countries with multiple cross flows and revenue in 22 currencies. Her role in Treasury included managing foreign currency exposure with a $4B hedging operation and optimizing the financing for 40 affiliates. She later served as a Treasurer of a public $500M revenue company growing at 40% per year. Her portfolio of duties included managing corporate real estate and in this role Joan sold properties in Silicon Valley for over $40M and was in charge of building a research center in Japan. Joan's industry experience includes SaaS, Enterprise Software, e-commerce, Telecom, Semiconductor, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Not-for-Profit, Med Devices and Cannabis. Joan holds a BA in Mathematics, an MS in Statistics from Purdue University and an MBA in Finance and International Business from NYU. She is a Recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Science at Purdue University. She is a native New Yorker and a longtime resident of San Francisco. She currently volunteers as a docent at the California Academy of Sciences and the San Francisco SPCA.
OPERATING ADVISORS
Shawn McMaster
Shawn is a senior financial services operating executive with more than 20 years of experience across enterprise data, governance, transformation, regulatory work, and business operations. During 15 years with Wells Fargo, he held a series of senior leadership roles culminating at the Executive Vice President level, working across some of the bank’s largest and most complex operating and control environments.
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At Wells Fargo, Shawn built the bank’s first Data Management Solution Services organization and was responsible for enterprise data quality, metadata, and regulatory reporting capabilities. He also built new data and risk functions and drove significant operating-model and control transformation. His organizations included more than 460 professionals, with responsibility for a $154 million budget. Shawn worked directly with OCC and Federal Reserve counterparts across data, control, and issue-management initiatives and owned delivery of 53 board-level regulatory milestones. He later held strategy, planning, governance, and business enablement leadership roles within the Chief Control Management Executive organization, supporting an approximately 4,000-person controls organization with budget oversight approaching $1 billion. His work there also included an enterprise issue-management implementation affecting approximately 15,000 employees.
Earlier in his career, Shawn worked in venture-backed software companies, where he saw firsthand how quickly growth can outpace process, controls, and operating structure. Since leaving Wells Fargo, he has continued to work with financial-services leadership teams on modernization, technology implementation, operating improvement, and complex execution challenges. He has also built and operated businesses himself, giving him a practical view of capital allocation, tradeoffs, and what an organization can realistically absorb.
Through Mission Rock, Shawn works with financial institutions and fintechs facing increasingly complex regulatory, risk, data, and transformation needs, helping turn those requirements into defensible operating reality.
Benton Brown
Benton is a seasoned risk professional with over three decades of experience establishing and executing effective enterprise risk governance frameworks and programs at banks, insurance companies and wealth management firms of all sizes. As a valued member of the C-Level suite he is adept at designing and implementing risk and governance programs that are appropriate and sustainable given the unique circumstances of each firm.
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His leadership in risk-based decision making has led to tangible results. By revising a balance sheet hedging program to reflect underlying product dynamics he freed $500 million dollars of stranded regulatory capital that was redeployed to support global growth initiatives. Based on his strategic review of institutional products he uncovered significant uncompensated risks that led to major product redesign that eliminated these risk exposures. Benton has a demonstrated track record of successfully remediating exam and audit deficiencies and improving regulatory relations.
He has been part of the leadership team for many large transformation programs. He has evaluated and reported on program health and emerging risks over the entire program lifecycle. In addition, he has led several data governance initiatives to validate authorized data sets, confirming fitness for use and purpose. He has streamlined board risk reports and enterprise risk governance frameworks across multiple business lines. He has led regulatory reporting transformation projects relating to Resolution and Recovery Plans, FR 2052a (6 gen) as well as Own Risk Solvency Assessments, Bermuda Commercial Insurer Solvency Self Assessments and various Solvency II related initiatives.
Benton holds a BA from Columbia University in the City of New York. He received an MA in Economics from Trinity College in Hartford CT. His these covered applying game theory to decision making under risk and uncertainty. He also earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) distinction.
Diana Murk
Diana is a senior product strategy and operations executive with over 20 years experience in the tech and financial services industry specializing in enterprise-level strategic initiatives. She has led 30+ organizations through critical transformations such as pre/post merger planning and integration, digital transformation, NPI, partner strategy, risk management/internal controls, and offshore development strategies.
Martin Robatti
Martin is a people and organizational transformation leader. He builds the HR function for financial institutions standing up under regulatory scrutiny, and leads the people side of acquisitions, operating-model changes and large-scale transformations across financial services and other sectors. He spent more than 20 years inside two global financial institutions, most recently as Global Head of HR for Engineering at BNY Mellon.
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At BNY Mellon in New York City, Martin worked with McKinsey to design the workforce model for the firm's new product-and-platform operating model (roles, skills, goal-setting and compensation) and led the transition of 50,000+ employees into it. The result was a more agile bank, with new-product capabilities built in and millions of dollars in efficiencies.
At Citi, based in South Florida, he led HR for Operations and Technology across Latin America, about 12,000 employees at its peak across 20+ markets. He built six shared-service and centers-of-excellence sites, including the 3,000+ person global shared services center in Costa Rica, and integrated two Central American acquisitions. Earlier, as CHRO for Peru, Bolivia and Chile, he led the people workstream of the Citi–Banco de Chile merger.
Today he is building the HR function for a de novo U.S. bank, covering payroll, benefits, compensation governance and regulator meetings, and staying on through the conditional period to final approval. He also leads transformation work across markets and sectors, from workforce attrition in retail to centralizing multi-country operations and aligning leadership and culture, helping companies get to market and to value faster.
He serves on the advisory board of Gloat, an agentic HR platform that deploys AI agents across talent, skills and workforce planning, following his work introducing skills-based workforce management at BNY Mellon. He has also advised other venture-backed technology companies.
At Mission Rock, Martin works with financial institutions, fintechs and growth-stage companies when a licensing deadline, an acquisition or divestiture, a centralization of operations, or a leadership structure that can't keep pace with growth puts execution at risk.
Martin holds an MBA from Universidad del Pacífico and a bachelor's in industrial engineering from Universidad de Lima (both in Lima, Peru), and Harvard Business School certifications in talent management.