Amy Sullivan launched Lumina Business Solutions in 2022 and comes to her current endeavor with a full portfolio. She has helped launch, grow and manage a wide range of businesses and has learned what strategies work. She also has a record of balancing proven practices with innovative thinking to solve problems and set businesses on track for success.
Sullivan began her career in Wilmington, where she started as an accountant with Intracoastal Realty. In her decade with the firm, she rose to become controller and HR manager. Then, looking to broaden her skills after a decade with the firm, she headed west. “I moved to Denver to work for Robert Smith, an accomplished entrepreneur and philanthropist with a diverse portfolio of businesses,” she says. “Over time, I managed 35 to 40 companies for him, including a country club, a tech company, a nonprofit, a construction company and a development company. I even started a custom apparel line.”
Sullivan left Denver for an opportunity to serve as chief operating officer and chief financial officer of a nationally-recognized complex-litigation law firm, where she quickly proved her worth. “I saved them a half-million dollars in the space of six weeks,” she said. “It only increased from there. I improved their efficiencies and organizational processes. Over time, I handled almost everything except litigation strategy.”
Although she loved the firm and her colleagues there, after 10 years Sullivan was ready for a new challenge that would allow her to employ the skills she developed over the past two decades to help a broader array of clients. She launched Lumina Business Solutions in mid-2022 and had no trouble finding clients.
“My business is mostly referrals,” she says. “Most of my clients have worked with me or know me through my work. People who come to me know I’m very good at what I do and that I have extensive experience working to build and improve successful companies. “Because of my background, I can give small and medium-sized businesses access to information normally available only to large organizations. That’s what they want: that same knowledge I’ve used to save companies and high-net-worth business owners millions of dollars.”
Running through Sullivan’s career has been a strong commitment to philanthropic efforts and involvement in community service.
“I have served on the boards of organizations wherever I have lived and launched my own nonprofit when I lived in St. Louis,” she says. “Locally, I ‘m an active supporter of the American Heart Association, the Willie Stargell Foundation, WARM, and Plastic Ocean Project.”
