BEEMW - Beam Global Appoints Lisa Potok as Chief Financial Officer | Benzinga
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Beam Global, (NASDAQ:BEEM, BEEMW)), a leading provider of innovative and sustainable infrastructure solutions for the electrification of transportation and energy security, announced that Lisa Potok has joined the Beam Global executive team as chief financial officer.
Ms. Potok is an innovative and strategically focused financial executive with Fortune 500, small and medium-sized company and international experience. She has consistently contributed to growth in profitability while managing public offerings, acquisitions and other strategic initiatives. Immediately prior to her appointment at Beam Global, Ms. Potok was the CFO, Treasurer and Secretary of Nice North America LLC, previously known as Nortek Security & Control, LLC, one of the largest smart residential, commercial and industrial solutions manufacturing companies in the world. Ms. Potok's previous experience with publicly traded companies includes Newegg Inc., a multi-billion-dollar revenue global tech company which she took public in May 2021; Vice President of Global Finance at Club Demonstration Services; and Vice President of Finance/Divisional CFO at FTD, Inc.'s Provide Commerce division.
"Lisa Potok comes to us with international financial leadership experience at companies with revenues in the hundreds of millions and billions of dollars," said Desmond Wheatley, CEO of Beam Global. "We are at a point in our trajectory where that sort of experience is going to be vital for us. Our revenues are almost 300% higher than they were a year ago and our growth into Europe, the world's biggest market for our products, means that we have to be planning for the next chapter in our evolution. Lisa's international experience is going to be vital for us as our operations there evolve. Lisa is well respected within the financial community and brings experience and relationships which are excellent for where we are going. Kathy McDermott has spent the last four years helping us build this growth platform and ...