Ramona Cedeno

CEO at FiBrick

Accounting and Finance

Education: Baruch College - Fairleigh Dickinson University
Dobbs Ferry, NY, USA

Biography

Ramona Cedeno is a CPA, CFP, and CGMA with over 20 years of experience as an accounting and finance professional. She has a track record of successfully devising and deploying innovative strategies that enhance operational and financial performance. She is the founder and CEO of FiBrick, an accounting and fractional CFO services firm based in NYC. She is also the host of the podcast In Great Company and the author of Simple Choices Big Rewards in Money.

Through the many services and workshops her firm provides, Ramona enjoys and takes pride in her innate ability to bring people together to build community and empower business owners to build scalable businesses. Before starting FiBrick, she was the CFO of Handy, and an accounting leader at Time Inc. and other Fortune 500 companies, tech startups, and small businesses. As a tech-forward innovator in the finance industry, she has guided over a dozen technology startups through mergers and acquisitions, funding rounds, and exits.

Ramona is a proud mentor of the Women Entrepreneurs of NYC (WENYC), a board member of the New York State Society of CPAs, and an advisory board member for New York State’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC). Ramona was named a Notable Woman in Accounting and Consulting by Crain’s and a recipient of the 2022 Empire Whole Health Heroes Award. She has been featured on Bloomberg and PIX 11 News and has spoken at several esteemed conferences including the AICPA ENGAGE and NABA’s Entrepreneurship Summit. Ramona earned a Bachelor’s in Accounting from Baruch College, a Master’s in Finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a Certificate in Financial Planning from Boston University.

Passion

Money management
Technology
AI
Entrepreneurship
Wellness
Work-life balance
Financial planning

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I am willing to travel

More than 100 miles

When it comes to payments

I generally get paid for speaking but make exceptions

Topics

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Best Story

My mom thought I was good with money when I was a child because I was "frugal like my dad." Those words marked my career as a finance professional.

Origin Story

I grew up in the countryside in the Dominican Republic and knew I wanted to be an accountant at the age of 19. I loved numbers and money! My journey took me from working in the billing department for an architecture firm to being the controller of a tech startup. Now I own an accounting practice, FiBric, and I'm the author of Simple Choices Big Rewards in Money.