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The experience section shows what changed. These show how — the situation on arrival, the sequence of decisions, and what it cost to get there. Read the one closest to your problem.

01 — Strategic stakeholder management

Rebuilding board trust in a leadership vacuum

Brought in by a private equity owner with no CEO, no Director of Finance, and a CFO who had just resigned. Trust was restored in two months — then reporting was rebuilt and made self-serve through an ERP the company already owned.

~$40M revenueBeauty · PE-backedInterim CFO

02 — Financial process optimization

A 40-day close, cut in half without hiring anyone

Approvals bottlenecked at the CEO and COO. No accounts receivable function at all. Four months later the close ran in 21 days and $2M in receivables had been collected.

~$50M revenueBeauty · VC-backedInterim CFO

03 — Operational restructuring

Reporting to a $150bn parent, and rebuilding real estate

A legacy on-premise accounting system and a 20-day close, inside a company answering to a publicly traded parent. Two functions rebuilt at once: finance and store development.

~$110M revenueHospitality · Multi-siteCFO

04 — Mezzetta · Business integration

Breaking silos, recovering an ERP programme, and piloting AI

Three departments building three different plans, a stalled systems implementation, and a budget cycle that ate four months of the year. The plan now takes one month and the programme is moving again.

Mezzetta~$300M revenueCPGInterim CFO

05 · AI deployment

Deploying AI across a company by teaching the teams to use it

Employees using AI on their own, with no policies, connected systems or training. The project builds the foundations and teaches each team to build its own setups, rather than handing out ready made prompts.

Beauty retail · PE backedDefined project

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