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Mendy Marsh

Chief Financial Officer
GlobalSCAPE, Inc.
San Antonio, TX

 

Shhh. Don’t tell anybody. Mendy Marsh isn’t so great at math.

Since Mendy’s the CFO for a software company, that might come as a surprise. But as she explains, “being a CPA isn’t just about numbers – it’s about understanding business. After that, the numbers fall into place.”

Then again, maybe Mendy’s just being modest. As a student at Texas A&M, she heard a lot of friends complaining about the basic accounting class. “By the time I started taking the class, I was pretty nervous,” she said. “And then I wondered what they were complaining about. It wasn’t that bad.”

From there, Mendy went on to receive her bachelors and masters in accounting in a special program at the college, and scored a job at Deloitte. After working in North Carolina for two years, she got homesick and transferred to Texas. After five more years at Deloitte, she started working for a software company.

After four months at the company she was promoted to CFO. It’s a job made for her personality. “I’ve got a short attention span and get bored doing the same thing all day,” she says. “In this job, I get to work on a lot of different projects, diving into the ones that are interesting to me.”

As if that’s not enough to satisfy her restless mind, Mendy travels a lot and takes on whatever adventure activities she can find in her travels, from paragliding to white water rafting and SCUBA diving. “Pretty much anything I can do other than jumping out of a plane.” For Mendy, it’s all about making every day an adventure, whether she’s in the office or in the Caribbean.

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