If you are an entrepreneur, founder, CEO, Managing Director, or senior executive building a company with rapid growth potential and the accompanying challenges in scaling towards an attractive valuation for when/if you decide to sell or exit; you may find the contributions of a "portfolio Finance Director" of value in achieving your goals.The CFO Centre offers experienced "scars-on-the-back" financial executives operating as co-partners and key advisors working alongside founders and other executive team members in delivering to your company's specific business needs.

GridChain’s identifies, qualifies and creates partnerships with firms engaged globally in manufacturing or providing products and services to create a sustainable environment. GridChain serves these companies as the business development partner, together with providing to them solutions from its SAAS (Sustainability As A Service) platform in delivering enhanced scalability, operational savings and new services opportunities.

Successful exit through acquisition by CBRE in August 2022. Led development of the company's financial strategies and plans including capital funding efforts. Designed the commercial strategies and models for the company's Artificial Intelligence-Machine Learning based SaaS and PaaS product offerings. Created the sales enablement process and associated materials. Led training of the company's channel partners' sales teams.

Led the global strategy, design, development, commercialization and profitability of the Company's Internet of Things Software as a Service product solutions.

As CFO led the development and production of financial models, plans and strategies for each of the company's PaaS and SaaS business lines. Led conceptualization and design of products and services targeted at the Energy Sector.

Created the company's business strategies and products and led its merger with Warren Buffett's $1B+ retail energy supply company. Led the design and expansion of its software as a service product set into the commercial and industrial real estate markets. Directed the development, build out and commercialization of its cloud based advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence technology platform solutions.

Built the company from scratch into a $ multi-million B2B services business and negotiated its sale to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Energy group. Created the company's strategies, led the design of its unique software as a service product set, directed the development of its cloud based technology platform achieving commercialization of these solutions.

Led the strategies to turn around what had been a failing business model into one of the nation's largest energy services companies delivering products to over 126,000 commercial facilities and managing for our customers over $3 billion in annual energy spend. Created and led strategies for design, development, marketing, sales and delivery of the company's software as a service products achieving commercialization.