Frauke
CEO & MANAGING PARTNER
Since joining LUXA Enterprises, Frauke has been the visionary behind growing LUXA from a single-service offering to a multi-faceted, full-service outsourcing firm.
Her educational background includes a Bachelors of Commerce in International Business from Concordia University in Quebec, graduate coursework in Accounting at McGill University in Quebec, Business Valuation Certification from NYU-Stern Business School, and an MBA from the University of Tulsa. Frauke obtained her Quebec Chartered Professional Accountant designation, as well as Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
With more than twenty years of accounting, audit, and business leadership experience, Frauke has worked for some of the best Fortune 100 companies, including Bell Canada Enterprises, Allied Signal/Honeywell, Hilti, and John Zink (Koch Chemical Technologies) in executive roles. These leadership roles have lead to extensive experience in global business, mergers and acquisitions, Six Sigma / Lean, and internal audit. She brings that international, big-business perspective to small businesses through process automation & streamlining, strategic initiatives, and compliance assurance.
Frauke has combined all of these experiences to develop LUXA into a service organization created to meet the Accounting, HR, Payroll, and Marketing needs of start-up to mid-sized companies.
Brian
V.P. OF HUMAN RESOURCES
Brian brings to Luxa over 10 years of experience as a Human Resources professional with expertise in Strategic Human Resources Management activities and process improvement. Brian is recognized for his ability in partnering with client groups to effectively create and implement sound people practices helping businesses reduce cost, maximize efficiencies, and create positive employee friendly cultures.
He was most recently Regional Human Resources Manager at The American Red Cross, where he directed all HR activities for two multiple site regions in a five state area providing support to 700+ employees. Brian also serves as an adjunct professor at Southern Nazarene University teaching both undergraduate and graduate Human Resources and Business courses. Lastly, Brian has been a member of the OKlahoma National Guard for over 16 years serving in both the Army and the Air Force. He currently serves as a contracting specialist providing acquisition planning and support to the Tulsa Air National Guard.
Michael
DIRECTOR OF CLIENT ACCOUNTING
Mike brings vast experience with him, in areas from public accounting to real estate accounting to Controller and leadership roles.
With a Bachelors of Business Administration degree from Baylor and his CPA certification, Mike has served with global firms as well as small, privately-owned firms.
He began his career with a national public accounting firm, handling multi-million dollar audits in the commercial real estate arena, as well as litigation support. From there, he migrated to a management level accounting role with globally-recognized oilfield energy company, Schlumberger. He provides years of experience as a degreed Accountant with solid GAAP principles knowledge and customer service-minded attitude.
Upon relocating to Tulsa, he became the Controller of a local, privately-owned company where he used his process automation and report streamlining skills to favorably impact the bottom line. In his various roles he has overseen budgets of multi-million dollar revenue companies. His current team at LUXA includes degreed Accountants with solid GAAP principles and customer service-minded attitude.
Mike
PRESIDENT
Mike Chromy has been eagerly awaiting his new leadership role as President of Luxa Enterprises. Before being named as President, Mike served as Accounting Manager, Controller, and VP of Accounting over the last 8 years.
Mike came to LUXA with over 8 years of management and accounting experience in the legal field. Mike strives to learn new concepts and processes that lead to improved business efficiency. When faced with difficult problems, Mike leads by example and is not afraid to jump into the trenches to get the job done. One of Mike’s strongest attributes is his ability to effectively communicate accounting concepts to all walks of life.
Through his growth and development over the years at Luxa and other past professional positions, Mike inherently understands that the customer is the single most valuable asset to an organization and is driven by the unrelenting pursuit of customer-driven focus and 100% customer satisfaction. In addition, he believes a leader earns respect by recognizing and acknowledging an internal team of diverse talents and strengths at Luxa to make that goal happen at the end of each day.
After serving in the US Armed Forces for 8 years, Mike moved from Ft. Collins, CO to Tulsa, OK to start a family and complete his bachelor’s in Business and is currently pursuing his MBA. Little did he know at that time that it would become a place he would call home, and he would make an abundance of friends and professional connections that would bring him to where he is today. In Mike’s spare time, he enjoys participating in his son’s Future Owasso Rams Football team as Assistant Coach, cheering his son’s soccer team, and spending time with family in the great outdoors through hiking, fishing, or camping adventures.
Faith
DIRECTOR OF CLIENT ACCOUNTING
Faith graduated with her Bachelors in Business Administration-Accounting in 2009 from Langston University-Tulsa. She brings over 15 years of accounting experience. Starting out with one of our former sister companies, she was responsible for all controller level activities, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, and month end financial reporting. She then took on the lead of transitioning their software from SAGE MAS 200 to Microsoft Great Plains Dynamic with Wennsoft service management.
She manages small to mid-size clients, across a variety of industries, with a full range of accounting and financial reporting and accounting ERP systems, including Microsoft Great Plains, QuickBooks and SAGE100/MAS90. She also specializes in budget creation, cash flow forecasting, and ERP implementation.