Bridgette Hodges - Grant Thornton LLP

Bridgette Hodges
CPA
Partner-in-Charge, SEC Regulatory Matters
National Professional Standards Group
Bridgette is a Partner in the National Professional
Standards Group with over 20 years of experience
in financial reporting and compliance combined
with solid operational experience. Her focus
pertains to SEC regulatory, financial reporting
and compliance issues. Bridgette became the
Partner in Charge of the SEC Regulatory Matters
group during 2009.
Experience
Bridgette began her career in the audit practice of
a large public accounting firm. After three years,
she left the public accounting profession to work
in industry. Bridgette worked for 12 years in
industry, all with publicly-traded companies
ranging from entrepreneurial environments and
foreign private issuers, to a Fortune 500 New York
Stock Exchange listed company. Her industry
experience includes educational software
companies, a government contractor (aerospace
and defense), and a hospitality real estate
investment trust.
Bridgette’s experience includes the following:
• Vice President of Financial Controls and
Compliance, MeriStar Hospitality
Corporation (previously one of the top
hospitality REITs)
• Director of External Reporting and
Corporate Accounting, General Dynamics
Corporation
• Vice President of Finance, Innovative
Technologies in Education ($3 million U.S.
sales, marketing and distribution subsidiary of
Israeli-based, foreign private issuer,
educational software company)
• Controller, Edunetics Corporation ($15
million U.S. sales, marketing and distribution
subsidiary of Israeli-based, foreign private
issuer, research and development educational
software company)
• Audit Senior, Arthur Andersen LLP
Bridgette’s responsibilities have included
compliance with generally accepted accounting
principles (or GAAP) and SEC rules and
regulations, including corporate-wide application
of new accounting pronouncements, SEC
regulatory filings, as well as corporate governance
matters. At MeriStar Hospitality Corporation, she
also assisted in the launch of an internal audit
function and their Section 404 compliance
program. Bridgette has experience in M&A and
disposition activities, including due diligence work
and technical application of appropriate GAAP.
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She has solid operational experience, having
established and managed the corporate-wide
functions of administration, accounting, treasury
and human resources while employed by the
educational software companies.
Professional qualifications and
memberships
• Member, American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants
• Committee Member, Center for Audit
Quality, SEC Regulations Committee
• Task Force Chair, SEC Regulations
Committee, Audit Practices Task Force
• CPA, Commonwealth of Virginia
Education
BS in Commerce, Concentration in Accounting
University of Virginia, McIntire School of
Commerce
Contact details
1250 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036-2660
T: 202-861-4149
F: 202-833-9165
E: Bridgette.Hodges@us.gt.com
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