Kirk Haggarty
Chief Financial Officer
Kirk Haggarty is the Chief Financial Officer of North. He is responsible for all of the financial functions of the company, including but not limited to accounting, treasury, capital formation, and merger and acquisition activities. He also oversees the human resources areas while supervising the following joint ventures and subsidiaries of North: Humboldt Merchant Services, Signature Payments, Inovio, PayProTec, Sekure, Electronic Payment Exchange, First Choice Payment Solutions, Point & Pay, LLC., the Direct Acceptance Group, the National Sales Group, the Enterprise Sales Group, and our ISV Sales Group.
Haggarty is a recognized expert in financial services with 17 years spent in investment banking where he was responsible for providing capital raising, joint ventures, and M&A advisory services to middle-market companies throughout North America. He also spent another six years as a chief financial officer in the private sector. Before joining North, Haggarty spent four years as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Atlas Oil Company, a multi-billion dollar revenue-generating energy distribution company with business in more than 23 states. Prior to his time at Atlas, Haggarty co-founded and served as President of the investment banking firm Donnelly Penman & Partners for nine years. He also spent time as a vice president within the investment banking group of Raymond James and its predecessors for seven years.
In 2015, Haggarty was named CFO of the Year by Crain's Detroit and was honored at an awards event at The Henry in Dearborn, Michigan.
Haggarty earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (majoring in finance) from Georgetown University. He also holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Detroit.