Senior financial leadership without the full-time hire.
Kyro CFO embeds financial leadership in your company at the level you actually need: fractional CFO, M&A advisory, or business transformation work. 20+ years spanning Goldman Sachs, Berkshire Partners, Wharton, and two sell-side exits.
What we do
Three services, one firm. They're not separate practice areas that happen to share a website. Each one feeds the others, and the person doing the work has done all three from inside a company, not from a consulting perch.
Fractional CFO
2-4 days per month of senior financial leadership embedded in your team. Board prep, cash flow management, vendor renegotiation, financial reporting, and the strategic lens your company is running without right now.
For companies in the $5M–$100M range that have outgrown their bookkeeper but aren't ready for a $250K CFO hire.
How it works→M&A advisory
Exit planning, sell-side process management, due diligence preparation, and valuation work. Two completed sell-side exits (2019, 2022). Goldman Sachs Investment Banking background. The experience of having sat across the table from Blackstone.
Starting 18 months before a planned exit is the difference between a good outcome and a great one.
How it works→Business transformation
Finding where money is being wasted, which processes are eating margins, and what technology decisions make sense vs. which ones are expensive distractions. This comes from the CFO seat, not a PowerPoint.
Turned EBITDA from -25% to positive at a 300-person company. Not by cutting everything, but by cutting the right things.
How it works→Who this is for
Companies in the $5M–$100M range that need strategic financial leadership but can't justify a $250,000 full-time hire. The fractional model gives you the same depth of expertise at the fraction of the cost and commitment.
You've outgrown your bookkeeper.
Your accountant handles the books. But nobody is watching cash flow, building a real financial model, prepping board materials, or telling you when a vendor contract is quietly costing you more than it should.
You're approaching an inflection point.
Raising a round, preparing for a sale, evaluating an acquisition, or restructuring operations. These moments require someone who has done it before, not someone learning on your deal.
The board is starting to ask harder questions.
Investors and board members who have seen dozens of companies know when financial leadership is missing. They ask about unit economics, cash runway, and exit timing. You need a CFO who has been on the other side of those conversations.
You suspect money is being left on the table.
$7–10M in annual P&L impact came from identifying five operational levers at a 300-person company that nobody had quantified before. The waste is usually there. It just takes the right lens to find it.
Why Kyro
The track record
Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Division. Berkshire Partners (Stockbridge fund, $30M to $1.4B AUM). Wharton MBA. CFO then CEO of Fullstack Academy through revenue growth from $10M to $40M, a profitability turnaround, and two sell-side exits.
That's not a resume highlight. It's what allows this work to happen faster and with more confidence than hiring a CFO candidate who hasn't been through it.
The scope
Most CFOs own finance. At Fullstack, IT and Engineering reported directly for 3+ years. Legal, Real Estate, and Academic operations were part of the CFO scope. That cross-functional experience matters when the real problems are never purely financial.
A collections process change recovered $2M annually at a 100:1 ROI. A marketing attribution project found $1M in ad spend returning 2–3 customers per year. The CFO's job is to find those, not just report on them after the fact.
By the numbers
2
sell-side exits led (2019, 2022)
$7–10M
annual P&L impact at a 300-person company
$10M→$40M
revenue scale during CFO tenure
20+
years in finance, PE, and operations
Connected practice
Often the CFO engagement is how we discover you need a custom analytics platform.
Embedded financial leadership surfaces operational bottlenecks that scream for a purpose-built tool. When that happens, Kyro Strategies builds it. Same analytical frameworks, different delivery. The CFO practice and the platform practice aren't separate firms. They're the same expertise applied to different problems.
See Kyro Strategies→Tell us what you're trying to solve.
No pitch deck, no discovery questionnaire. A 30-minute conversation where we tell you honestly whether we can help and what that looks like.
Let's talk