Chele Cary

Chelé Cary is a Managing Director at CX, a Connor Group Company, and is located in Salt Lake City.

In her role as Head of Growth & Talent Strategy, Chelé oversees the company’s market expansion, marketing initiatives, strategic partnerships, and talent acquisition. Chelé plays a key role in identifying and developing new markets, building marketing funnels to support the business development team, and fostering partnerships. On the talent side, Chelé oversees recruiting strategy and alignment across markets.

Chelé brings a wealth of accounting and finance experience across diverse industries such as healthcare, agriculture, SaaS, consumer products, and oil and gas. Her expertise is in people, processes, and systems and driving efficiency within the accounting and finance organization. She has worked on projects such as supporting the controller function for an entity in a high-risk bankruptcy, interim controller for high-growth SaaS and healthcare companies - managing multiple acquisitions for each, addressing technical accounting challenges, overseeing integrations, leading project management initiatives, valuations, and optimizing working capital. She has also overseen the creation of financial reporting information to support investors and drive decision making for the company. She has led complex integration and financial close improvement processes for many organizations.

Prior to joining Connor Group, Chelé began her career at Ernst & Young and has over 7 years of Corporate Controller experience. Beyond her professional work, Chelé is dedicated to advancing women in their careers. She is actively involved in the Salt Lake City market and serves on the board for ACG Executive Women’s Network. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Girl Scouts of Utah.