Companies outgrow their decision systems before they outgrow their markets.
I close that gap, and build the systems that carry a company into its next stage.
I find where growth has outrun the infrastructure, then rebuild the model, the metrics, and the operating cadence that let a company scale.
Available for board and advisory roles, consulting engagements, CFO / COO leadership, and speaking.
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Finance as a decision system, not a reporting function.
I treat the finance function as the machinery a company uses to decide. I get close to the business, clarify the economics, build the operating rhythm, and develop the team, so leaders can see growth quality, margin, retention, and investment tradeoffs clearly. I am most useful where complexity is rising: multiple acquisitions, hybrid SaaS and hardware models, margin pressure, or a business that needs to professionalize for scale.
The systems are the craft. People are the point. I am here to build lasting relationships and to serve the teams and leaders I work with, and every operating system I build is in service of someone making a better decision.
See how I live that outside the paid work →Founding-team finance, public-company scale, and a company of my own.
Openpath
Employee #18 at pre-revenue. Built finance, HR, legal, and operations from scratch through a $36M Series C and a $300M sale to Motorola Solutions.
openpath.com →
Avigilon Alta
Portfolio CFO for a cloud security business scaled to $62M ARR, a 107% four-year CAGR, with finance partnership across North America and Europe.
avigilon.com/alta →
PolarAIs
An AI-enabled operating system for M&A integration, giving the CFO who owns it a live picture of every entity and a target structure priced from Day 1. Building and validating now.
polarais.com →
Eighteen years in the boardroom, by choice.
I have served as an independent director at Virtual Enterprises International for eighteen years, on the Executive Committee and as chair of both Audit and Strategy. VEI teaches roughly 35,000 students a year to build and run real businesses. It is the clearest expression of what I believe about how people learn to lead.
Why I still serve →