Larry King is a proven and effective Board Director, strategic leader, serial entrepreneur and business builder with over 30 years of extensive experience assisting companies with growth and complex transactions. He is considered a highly effective client facing executive, active in finance and accounting, marketing, business development and brand building. Larry strives to achieve collaboration at all levels of an organization by setting the example.
Larry currently serves on the Advisory Board and as the CFO and COO at WhamTech, Inc., an early stage privately-held SaaS technology company in Dallas, TX. Additionally, Larry serves on the Advisory Board for Amegy Bank-Dallas; on the Advisory Board for Kwivik Therapeutics, Inc. a medical device company; and on the Advisory Council to the Board (President 2016/2017; Executive Committee 2015-2018) for Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) DFW. Larry has served as a Lead Director, Audit Committee Chair, and member of the Compensation Committee and the Nominating & Governance Committee for a public company and as a Board member for a number of private companies. He is also a co-founder of the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of Private Directors Association.
Larry founded and grew KBA Group, LLP into the largest Dallas based CPA and Advisory firm with a diversified menu of services and led the firm’s strategic growth, both organic and through acquisition. Larry initiated and constructed the firm’s merger with the tenth largest national CPA firm, and served as the Dallas office Managing Partner post-merger. He later transitioned to the role of South Region Leader of the Transaction Services Group before taking early retirement from the firm in 2015. Throughout his career, he has assisted clients with business strategy, transactions including IPOs, reverse mergers, and mergers and acquisitions from both the buy side and sell side. Larry has worked with both domestic and international companies in numerous industries including manufacturing and distribution, technology, software, services, energy, logistics, healthcare, real estate and retail.
Larry was awarded the Texas Society of CPAs Lone Star Pathfinder Award in 2000, was a Boys & Girls Clubs Profiles in Leadership Semifinalist in 2003, and was Highlighted in D CEO Magazine in 2007. Larry is also an alumni of the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce Leadership Dallas Class of 2011. Under his leadership, KBA Group was recognized for the following honors and awards: North Dallas Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year–2000; Practical Accountant Practice Innovation Award – 2002 and 2005; Association for Accounting Marketing, Marketing Achievement Award – 2005; Journal of Accountancy Feature Article - recognized for Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance marketing campaign–2005; Addison Texas Magazine Most Dynamic Business Award – 2007; Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce Employee Excellence Award–2008; Dallas Business Journal Best Places to Work –2008.
Larry is a graduate of Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts with a BS in Accounting and Operations Research graduating Beta Gamma. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Global Management Accountant through the American Institute of CPAs, and has the Certificate in Private Company Governance through the Private Directors Association. He is a member of the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance, Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas; Private Directors Association; Association for Corporate Growth; Financial Executives International; and Executive Connection.