Jonathan Gordon joined Smartlinx as Chief Financial Officer in February 2024, bringing a passion for driving transformation and scaling SaaS companies. He has extensive experience in a variety of financial and operational roles having developed and executed on organic growth and acquisition plans for public and investor-owned private companies. Over the course of his career, he has worked across multiple industries including healthcare software, technology, information, insurance and media.
Previously, Jonathan was the Chief Financial Officer for CentralReach, a leading provider of an end-to-end SaaS platform and services targeting professionals supporting the autism community. His focus was creating and operationalizing the financial and strategic growth plan for the company under private equity ownership to achieve industry leadership. Specifically, he oversaw the Finance, Business Operations, and Corporate IT functions. In this role, he led the Company’s budgeting and planning cycles as well as the design and implementation of processes, procedures and infrastructure to enable its successful scaled growth.
Prior to that, Jonathan was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Wellesley Information Services, a technology events and marketing services company showcasing global thought leadership about the ERP market, where he played a pivotal role in driving profitable growth around its go-to-market strategy.
Earlier in his career, Jonathan had various financial analysis, strategy and M&A-related roles (both in-house and as a banker) with a number of companies, including Nielsen and PRIMEDIA. He qualified as an attorney in South Africa.
Jonathan holds an MBA degree from Columbia University. In addition, he holds an LLB (JD equivalent), Higher Diploma in Company Law and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.