Askia Roberts, CPA

Before founding RTW Advisors in 2015, Askia spent nine years in progressive finance leadership at GE across Energy, Power & Water, and Oil & Gas — including GE's two-year Financial Management Program rotational leadership track. He went on to serve as Senior Financial Manager at Halyard Health (spun off from Kimberly-Clark), directing cost of manufacturing, forecasting, and budgeting for a Surgical & Infection Prevention division with over $1B in annual revenue, and leading a team of finance managers embedded across four countries.

He earned his CPA license through a staff auditor role conducting financial statement audits for public secondary school systems under governmental accounting standards, while concurrently running RTW Advisors. Today he serves as Controller for a $40M manufacturing company and provides CFO-level advisory across dozens of active client engagements spanning manufacturing, healthcare, and professional services — the same operating discipline that shaped RTW.ai's productized model.

Askia holds a Master of Science in Accounting from Keller Graduate School of Management, a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from DeVry University, and an Associate of Science in Business from Atlanta Metropolitan College. He is a longtime VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) volunteer, providing free tax preparation to Atlanta's working families for over a decade.