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Autumn PatrickAccountantBlue Plate Catering, Inc.

Autumn graduated from UW Madison with a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics applied to Actuarial Science. After 5 years in the commercial insurance brokerage space specializing in Workers Comp insurance analysis and reporting, her family purchased a business with annual revenue of $1 million in 2018. After immediate growth to nearly $3 million in annual revenue, she left her full-time employment to act as the office manager of the family business, including everything from insurance to payroll and bookkeeping to hiring and point of sale management. She joined a CPA firm in 2021 as their Director of Accounting to gain additional bookkeeping skills and accounting knowledge. Desiring to have a more direct impact on a small business, she began looking for upper management and accounting roles in the Madison area and found Blue Plate. Her passion is creating streamlined policies and procedures, recognizing data trends, and supporting small business owners. Having been a business owner learning everything from ground zero, she knows how stressful it can be to remain the expert in your field and keep operations on track.

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