Our firm specializes in achieving improvements in our clients' companies by providing strategic financial planning, consulting and execution to enhance shareholder value by:
We are hands-on, results-oriented, experienced executives focused on one goal - to improve the condition of our client companies.
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We are hands-on, results-oriented, experienced executives focused on one goal - to improve the condition of our client companies. Whether the improvement is quantitative or qualitative, long-term or short-term, our focus is on a successful outcome for the client.
We work collaboratively with the chief executive officer, executive management teams, board of directors and investors to establish desired client objectives and metrics at the outset of any engagement. Our engagements are typically completed in one to three months.
Our business is unique in that we charge a fee for our services on a project-by-project basis or we offer clients the flexibility of hourly billing rates on a time basis. We are focused on the successful outcome of our client's objectives, not in the perpetuity of tasks that may or may not result in the achievement of a client's objectives. When our clients' goals and objectives are met, the resultant improvements justify their investment.
We believe that a company should be managed to enhance shareholder value. Increased shareholder value can come from growth but this doesn't preclude operating with a lean cost structure and profitably while generating positive cash flow that can be distributed to the shareholders. We believe increased profit and positive cash flow increase the probability of achieving increased shareholder value.
These objectives are common for board members, investors, chief executives and executive management teams and the probability of achievement is greater when our methodologies are implemented.
Our mission is to assist chief executive officers, executive management teams, boards of directors and investors achieve such corporate objectives as:
Based on our own life experiences, we know that executive management teams are often challenged in terms of their capacity or even ability to focus any time on strategic planning, let alone communicate and be held accountable for such plans.
We will work with the chief executive officer, executive management team, the board of directors and/or the investor to provide the resources necessary to achieve your corporate objectives.
We collaboratively work with executive management teams, the board of directors or investors to formalize a way forward for improving for their respective companies by providing experienced resources to:
Do any of the following describe your company?
We can provide the experienced resources required to achieve your company's objectives.
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We can provide the experienced resources required to achieve your company's objectives.
We offer initial consultations to ensure that collaborative, working relationships can be established. The initial meetings are critical to ensure that mutually agreed upon objectives and metrics can also be established to increase the probability that the client's outcome is successful.
We are hands-on executives and will drive the completion of the agreed upon objectives and metrics, but we will need to work closely with the client to complete the engagement. To this, we offer the following:
Project management:
Contract or Part-time CFO services:
We also offer very flexible short-term contract or part-time CFO engagements on an hourly or daily basis.
Situational consulting:
For executives, board members and investors who have an immediate and urgent need for help on a very clear, well-defined issue, we offer a fixed term phone and email consultation for a fee.
Board membership:
We also offer our services as board or audit committee members of your company on a permanent or transitional basis. Our experience qualifies us, in accordance with SEC regulations, as "financial experts".
Blair Geddes, Chief Executive Officer
Over the past 20 years, Blair has served in senior finance roles in both private and public companies in the Telecom, Software and Defense industries.
Blair is a Chartered Accountant by education.