Bern Galvin

Bern Galvin is the son of a dirt farmer from central western New South Wales, Australia. He brings to NAMI over thirty years of corporate finance and management experience, including Turnaround Specialist, General Manager, CEO, CFO, Vice President of Finance, Controller and Treasurer. In addition to full P&L responsibility for companies, their divisions and subsidiaries, he has provided consulting services to stakeholders of organizations that are under-performing, transitional, in an out-of-court workout mode, or Chapter proceeding.

These services have included viability analysis, organizational restructuring, liquidation analysis, due diligence in acquisition situations, expert witness testimony, collateral evaluation and results monitoring. Stakeholders to whom services have been rendered include commercial banks, unsecured creditor groups, and the owners and management of under-performing companies, and non-profit organizations. Bern’s goal at NAMI is to work collaboratively with the NAMI management team to grow the organization to long term sustainability, so that it can maximize its impact in the communities it serves for many years to come.

Getting in place comprehensive financial reporting and budgeting and forecasting tools not only provides useful support to management and the Board as they strategize; these systems also provide the assurance stakeholders and donors need with respect to the utility of their ongoing investment in our future.

Bern attended college on a Commonwealth academic scholarship, graduating from the University of NSW in Sydney, Australia with degrees in Finance and Law. He was admitted to practice law, though he never has, as a Barrister of the Supreme Court of NSW in 1979.

He’s a native of Australia, a US Citizen, and lives in Oxnard in southern California.