Wonder Woman in Business, Teresa Covello

Susan Freeman

January 20, 2020

Podcasts, Women Leaders

Teresa Covello

Teresa D. Covello, CPA, is the founder and managing member of Wincott 87 Consulting LLC, an accounting and finance advisory company serving public and pre-IPO companies throughout the United States. Her practice is primarily concentrated in the financial services sector and includes banks, asset managers and mortgage REITs. Among her clients are some of the world’s largest and most successful asset managers. Teresa has acted as an outsourced /interim CFO, provided CFO augmentation for IPO’s, acquisitions, and drove corporate governance enhancement and process improvement.

Teresa, who started her career in public accounting with KPMG, has 25+ years’ experience and has held progressive senior roles with three NYSE listed companies, including serving as CFO, CAO, Controller, Treasurer and Corporate Secretary. She has been an officer of JSB Financial, Inc., MFA Mortgage Investments, Inc. and Apollo Residential Mortgage, Inc. Her roles with internally and externally managed public company management and their boards inspired her to establish Wincott 87 Consulting in 2016. In her role as advisor, she draws from her experience to help management and boards prepare for initial public offerings and other transitions and to identify and solve for accounting and operational inefficiencies and personnel challenges.

As a philanthropist and lifelong volunteer, Teresa has founded, directed and chaired not-for-profit organizations and currently provides pro bono consulting services to Long Island, NY based not-for-profit organizations, supporting victims of domestic violence. She is a past Chairman of the Board of Commerce Plaza, Inc., which has been providing business education for thousands of elementary school children across Long Island for more than 20 years. While briefly residing in New Jersey, she organized and led a community group to revitalize a playground making it handicap accessible.

Teresa lives in Long Island, NY with her husband and their rescue animals. As an outdoor enthusiast, she enjoys family weekends with her husband and daughters in New York City and hiking and cross-country skiing in the Catskills Mountains. Her travels have led her to safari in Botswana, Zambia and South Africa and she has walked hundreds of miles exploring cities in the U.S. and around the world. She is also a frequent passenger on her husband’s motorcycle and has toured U.S. national parks, as well as Alaska and Hawaii.