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Hal Polley

  • Managing Director, Co-Head of Western Region for Accordion Partners
  • Contributor to CFO Magazine, WSJ, PE Hub, & Buyouts Magazine
  • Former CFO for MDx Medical, Inc.
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Hal is Accordion’s San Francisco Office Lead and the Co-Head of Accordion’s Western Region. He has nearly three decades of experience in finance, as both a private equity investor and operating executive. He has been involved at the GP and management levels in transactions at companies from growth stage to mature businesses. Prior to this...

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Hal is Accordion’s San Francisco Office Lead and the Co-Head of Accordion’s Western Region. He has nearly three decades of experience in finance, as both a private equity investor and operating executive. He has been involved at the GP and management levels in transactions at companies from growth stage to mature businesses. Prior to this role, Hal served as Head of Accordion’s Strategic Finance Practice.

Representative Accordion engagements include leading budgeting efforts at a new entity in pharmaceuticals formed by a corporate carve-out and a publicly traded entity taken private; building an activity-based view into SKU and customer-level profitability at a well-known branded consumer products manufacturer; and executing merger integration plans after a merger of equals in the cloud computing industry. Hal has led engagements for portfolio companies of Permira, Hellman & Friedman, JLL, New Mountain Capital, and others.

Before joining Accordion, Hal split his career between private equity investing in operating roles. In the decade before joining Accordion, Hal worked at privately-backed companies in roles including head of Corporate Development, General Manager, and most recently CFO at MDx Medical, Inc.

Hal began his career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette as a Generalist where he did LBO work with the merchant banking group in addition to M&A, IPOs and bond offerings. He then went on to become an Associate at the Carlyle Group and, after business school, a Principal at Bessemer Partners.

Often representing Accordion at private equity CFO/CXO conferences, Hal presents on topics ranging from FP&A Best Practices to Measuring Value Creation through Data and BI.

Hal graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University and holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

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Speaker Programs

The CFO of 2030
Accordion hosted a virtual event to discuss: How are CFOs going to create value across the next decade? We invited a (virtual) roomful of private equity-backed CFOs to watch a curated panel of their peers ...more
Accordion hosted a virtual event to discuss: How are CFOs going to create value across the next decade? We invited a (virtual) roomful of private equity-backed CFOs to watch a curated panel of their peers discuss the evolving role of the CFO and what it will look like ten years from now. Those panelists included: Brian Gladden, an Operating Partner at Bain Capital; Tom Dowling, CFO of Banner Solutions; Bill Ingram, former CFO of Avalara; and Mario Ramos, CFO and CRO of Edelman Financial Engines. ...less
CFO Focus: Silicon Valley/San Francisco
Moderated by CNBC News Correspondent, Jane Wells. Hal Polley was on teh Host Committee of this event, and panelists include: Anup Singh, CFO of Illumio; Betsabe Botaitis, Head of Finance at Uplift; and Andy Brown, ...more
Moderated by CNBC News Correspondent, Jane Wells. Hal Polley was on teh Host Committee of this event, and panelists include: Anup Singh, CFO of Illumio; Betsabe Botaitis, Head of Finance at Uplift; and Andy Brown, CFO of Chegg. ...less

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