Dan McGowan

Chief Financial Officer

LOTH Cincinnati

favorite charity:

The Dragonfly Foundation

3 words to describe you:

Driven, Analytical, Transparent

cooking style:

Friday night pizza

Experience

Dan is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who majored in Accounting at Bowling Green University and received his master’s from Miami University. He joins us with a wide range of progressive financial experience most recently as CFO of West Point Optical Group, which is a franchisee of Pearle Vision with 90 locations across 13 states. He helped lead the company through a period of growth adding locations, raising capital through private equity, implementing a new ERP, and an eventual a successful sale to EssilorLuxottica.

His career started at Ernst and Young working as a Staff Auditor. He moved on to Luxottica Retail originally as an auditor and progressed through different roles over six years from Accounting Manager to Senior Manager of IT Finance. He spent three years at Omnicare as a Regional Controller and a year at UC Health as the Corporate Controller, four years as VP of Finance at Greenpoint Metals, before transitioning to CFO roles at FC Cincinnati and West Point Optical Group.

Dan currently oversees Finance, Accounting, IT, and HR departments at LOTH.

“Play to your strengths and have fun on the journey.”

Dan McGowan

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