John Hetherington

John Hetherington is currently the CFO of Folica, Inc., with more than 25 years of senior finance and operations experience. Hetherington served for six years as Chief Financial Officer of Fekkai, LLC, where he played a significant role in the sale of the company to Proctor & Gamble in 2008, which generated a substantial return on investment to the owners. Previously, Hetherington spent 16 years in multiple senior financial management roles at L’Oreal USA. Most recently, Hetherington was President and Owner of Lighthouse Strategic Advisors, where he provided long-range planning, capital needs projections and financial controls to small and start-up companies.

Hetherington earned an MBA from Rutgers’ Graduate School of Management and a BS in Economics from Virginia Tech, and is a CPA in the state of New Jersey.

At HBA 2011, he spoke in the session M-07: The A-Z of Launching an Indie Brand.