Q&A Interview with:
Anthony Escamilla
Chief Financial Officer, Protos Security
Anthony Escamilla has more than 35 years of experience leading finance and operational functions across multiple industries and working with private equity-backed companies through growth, acquisition and transformation.
Protos Security CFO on the convergence of finance and operations
A longtime CFO-operator, Anthony Escamilla says that the two departments are “inseparable.”
Anthony Escamilla took his first CFO job in 1998, and, like many other business leaders, he can confirm that the lines between operations and finance departments have continued to cross.
“The operations and finance teams, I think, are inseparable,” he says.
Escamilla would know, having worked as a CFO-COO hybrid several times throughout his career.
Now, as CFO of Protos Security, he brings an execution-focused mindset to the private security market. In a span of just about six years, the company, which Escamilla says is the fourth-largest security services company in North America, has grown from 72 employees to just shy of 500. Purchased by private equity firm Southfield Capital in 2019, Protos was founded back in 2006.
In an interview with CFO.com, Escamilla, who joined Protos in 2018, shares his take on working under private equity sponsors, navigating changing demands for finance chiefs and how new accounts can get ahead.
