About
One operator. The rooms most CFOs never see.
CipherCFO is founder-led by design. You know exactly who is in the seat on day one, and it stays that way — not a rotating bench, not a stranger matched from a staffing pool. The CFO you call when the bank is on the phone.
I’ve spent my career inside finance — building the forecasts, closing the books, managing cash through tight quarters, and sitting across the table from boards, banks, and acquirers when the calls actually mattered. Not auditing companies from the outside; running the numbers from the inside.
The work that defines this practice is the hard kind. Ten-plus years of CFO-level work across manufacturing, energy, consumer products, and distressed environments — forbearance, lender relations, 13-week cash flow, covenant monitoring, audit workpaper prep, and restructuring. Most fractional shops serve comfortable growth-stage companies. I built CipherCFO for the rooms where the bank is already on the phone.
No CPA on a wall, no Big-4 stamp — and that’s neutral; the staffing incumbents aren’t CPA firms either. What you get instead is hard-won operating experience, plus a real analysis stack that makes board-grade deliverables faster and cheaper than a body shop ever could.
The philosophy
Owned, not matched
You hire a relationship, not a placement. The same operator learns your business cold and stays in the seat.
Real numbers, not adjectives
Outcomes are quantified — DSO cut, runway rebuilt, lender package delivered in days. Proof over a logo wall.
Built for the hard call
Forbearance, covenant pressure, restructuring, fast close. The situations where a CFO's judgment is existential.
Work with the operator, not a bench.
A 20-minute call, a clear read on your numbers, and a straight answer on whether a fractional CFO is the right call right now.