About Us
Who We Are
C-Level Executive Consulting, LLC (CLEC) is a professional services firm with extensive expertise in financial, operational and IT risk. Our team brings decades of experience from major financial service firms, accounting firms, and Global 2000 corporations. With offices in New York, and partners around the United States in Connecticut, Illinois, Colorado, Florida, and California, CLEC consistently provides its clients with senior level guidance and the highest quality consulting teams available on the market.
What We Do
We provide specialized consulting services in the Finance, Operations, Accounting, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), and IT fields. We have strong capabilities and vertical practice areas in key market sectors, including:
We provide solutions working with clients globally with direct engagements in areas of: Performance Process Improvements
Business Impact Analysis
IT and business process re-engineering
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)
Operational Risk Management
Technology, Business Intelligence, Business Rules Engines
IT compliance and operational audits and remediation assistance Corporate IT governance practices Risk Assessments
Basel II Implementation solutions
Cost reduction analysis and generate savings
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning, assessment, implementation, and testing
Why We Are Different
CLEC is a proven, professional and reliable partner with nearly three decades of experience. Our client list includes major financial institutions, international brands, Fortune 500 corporations and small/medium size entities. We have been successful for a long time because of our:
deep specialization in Information Technology
total commitment to client service
approach to quality management on engagements and deliverables
drive to continually innovate
We also include technology services through alliance partners that provide hardware, software, and effective outsourcing.
Arthur Galante Bio - Founder of C-Level Executive Consulting, LLC Practice - Principal, CEO   | Art Galante is the original Principal founder of C-Level Executive Consulting LLC. He is a Senior Financial/Operations and Risk Management Executive with a track record of creating strategies, analytics, and solution that drive financial performance, effectiveness and efficiency in premier global financial services, investment banks, technology, real estate, manufacturing companies, and all other industries listed above. . Art has also been involved in the start-up and operational control for several foreign subsidiaries in Europe, Asia, and South America. |
Art has over 20 years experience in improving financial and operational results. He works with owners to identify goals and establish action plans that produce these results. His problem solving approach consistently leads to improved business practices, controls, and profitability. Areas of expertise include accounting, operations, technology, strategic planning, budgeting, cash management, cost accounting and management reporting.
As a seasoned CFO and business advisor, Art brings leadership and insight that generate confidence, team building, and focus. He has management teams installing control systems, established policies and procedures, and implemented effective business intelligence software solutions. He enjoys challenging situations where clear business insight allows him to evaluate complex situations and guide executives and employees to higher performance.
He creates the finance, operational, technology, and management analytics identifying, implementing continuous process improvements and productivity that protect the business, drive profitability, and manage risk. Builds and leads multifunctional teams to turnaround or transform business operations and management decision making.
He has an outstanding record of global leadership and impact, with special expertise in compliance, security and firm-wide reengineering, and is known for developing innovative strategic initiatives that generated sustainable profit growth across major financial institutions, Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Commercial & Consumer Banking, Information Technology, Software, Business Process Outsourcing, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Petroleum, Retail, Mining, Pharmaceuticals, and Hospitality firms.
Contact us for help: agalante@c-levelexecutiveconsulting.com 1-516-627-1877
Stephen Gierach Senior Partner of C-Level Executive Consulting, LLC
 | During his twenty plus years of experience, Steve has helped numerous Fortune 5000 organizations to establish effective IT controls, derived from sound corporate IT policies; IT standards and procedures; risk-based security audit assessments; and improved management and optimization of virtually all aspects of the information technology responsibility. In many engagements, he has significantly supported operational effectiveness, strategic and logistical planning, cost reduction goals, and measured service responsiveness to business entities (SLAs), as a contribution to the revenue-generating goals and objectives of organizations he has served across the country. |
Steve has expert knowledge in data center management best practices (such as ITIL); IT governance; business process improvement (BPI) for general office workflow; SDLC and standards and procedures for computer operations and for systems and programming; risk assessment; business-wide and IT disaster recovery planning development, implementation and testing; business continuity planning; software development project management; cost reduction analysis; telecommunications technology rollouts; system performance measurement and optimization; and system and network simulation modeling. Steve also worked both as a senior program/project manager and a senior IT auditor (utilizing COSO, COBIT, ISO-17799, etc., frameworks), on SAS 70 IT audits for outsourcing organizations. He performed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) IT compliance auditing, testing, documentation and remediation in a variety of industries. He is self-trained in PCI-DSS and HIPAA audits as well.
In addition, he was instrumental in leading the Firm to develop and market automated solutions for business-wide disaster recovery planning (Corporate Recovery), a cost analysis and reduction system (The Cost Reduction System), and both mainframe and minicomputer based standards and procedures for computer operations and systems and programming.
Steve holds an M.S. in solid state physics, a B.A. in physics/math, and has completed almost two years of post graduate work in computer science. Steve holds a number of well-respected certifications, including the CISM, CISA, PMP, MCSE, and CCNA.
Contact us for help: sgierach@c-levelexecutiveconsulting.com 1-708-633-1190
Richard E. Cascarino, MBA, CIA, CISM, CFE, Senior Partner C-Level Executive Consulting, LLC
 | Richard is well known in international auditing circles as one of the most knowledgeable practitioners in the field, Richard is CEO of Richard Cascarino & Associates based in Colorado, USA with over 26 years experience in audit training and consultancy. He is a regular speaker to National and International conferences and has presented courses throughout Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the USA. |
Richard is well known in international auditing circles as one of the most knowledgeable practitioners in the field, Richard is CEO of Richard Cascarino & Associates based in Colorado, USA with over 26 years experience in audit training and consultancy. He is a regular speaker to National and International conferences and has presented courses throughout Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the USA.
Richard is a Past President of the Institute of Internal Auditors in South Africa, was the founding Regional Director of the Southern African Region of the IIA-Inc and is a member of ISACA, and the American Institute of Certified Fraud Examiners
Richard was Chairman of the Audit Committee of Gauteng cluster 2 (Premier's office, Shared Services and Health) in Johannesburg and a member of the Audit Committee of the Department of Public Enterprises in South Africa.
He is also a visiting Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, lead author of the book Internal Auditing - an Integrated Approach, published by Juta Publishing. This book has been approved by the IIA Board of Regents as a study guide for the CIA examination and is extensively used as a university textbook worldwide. In addition, he is the author of the "Auditor's Guide to Information Systems Auditing" published by Wiley Publishing and the forthcoming book "Fighting fraud - it could happen to you" to be published by Juta Publishing in Spring 2009.
Contact us for help: rcasc@c-levelexecutiveconsulting.com 1-970-291-1497
Mission Statement
Our Mission is to leverage more than 30 years of proven results to supply all industries with the highest Return on Investment (ROI) and profitability for Small Start-up Companies, and all global Financial Services, Capital Market Investment Banks, Private Equities, Hedge Funds, Commercial/Consumer Banking sectors, Information Technology, Software, BPO, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Petroleum, Retail, Mining, Pharmaceuticals, and Hospitality industry firms.
We provide the best strategic consulting service that leverages a unique expertise in offering strategies for managing finance, operations, technology, risk management, and audit performance process improvement turnarounds
Our process is cost efficiently provided at critical time periods for your Firm