Diane Wolff

President, The Blue Sage Group

Diane Wolff is the Founder and President of The Blue Sage Group.  Wolff is a senior financial executive with a proven track record of increasing profitability in Fortune 1000 companies by creating the tools and processes that allow senior management to quickly gage the financial impact of operational initiatives and actions.  In her career, Wolff has created infrastructures for small ventures that have enabled them to create and handle explosive growth and she has restructured mature companies to allow them to operate efficiently as streamlined, low cost operations. In 2002 in the wake of the government’s implementation of The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, Wolff began to find herself brought into a new realm – a situation where companies were struggling to comply with a newly defined set of compliance rules, many times with runaway budgets. She has applied her financial and business acumen to developing a new set of tools by which companies can efficiently and effectively comply, using a Microsoft Windows platform.

In her previous position as Vice President of Finance for Genuity, a leading provider of managed Internet services, Wolff improved gross margins by 100% in a three year period while revenues grew to $750 Million.  During that period Wolff worked with cross-functional teams to transform separate and unique start-up operations with antiquated systems into a unified organization with streamlined and effective processes and controls.

Prior to that Wolff served as Chief Financial Officer and Director of Operations of  ODI, an international management consulting firm and leader of the TQM movement. In that role Wolff streamlined systems and processes that resulted in a more profitable organization. 

Wolff graduated Summa Cum Laude from Emerson College with a degree in Business Communications, taken graduate courses at Harvard Extension, and continues taking educational courses in subjects that include Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance and corporate governance.  Wolff is a member of multiple professional organizations including  FEI, IIA, IIAC and FENG.