Krista Davis started her career by owning businesses with her mother, including a wholesale jewelry company that grew to more than 400 accounts. When her mother retired, Davis managed the finances for her husband Pasquale’s trucking business in Arizona. The couple wanted to raise their two children in the Fox Cities, though. Davis found a role as an assistant in the business office at Fox Valley Lutheran High School and, after 10 years, moved into the controller position — a job she has held for four years.
In her first year, Davis added new efficiencies and checks and balances, as well as helped the administration close a budget gap of nearly a quarter-million dollars.
“In each of the last three years, our school has been awarded clean audits from a third-party audit firm, which in the financial controller world is a huge accomplishment,” Davis says.
Davis also was on the founding board of the Bargain Garden Thrift Store, which supports the school. “They are now providing the school with over $1.8 million in support of non-budgeted items to help support and improve students’ learning and overall programs.”
