Crisis management financial guy: Interim CFO, untangle thorny investment deals, close stubborn financial deals and build financial models.Companies in need of an interim CFO call me to fill the chair of a senior financial executive as the go-to person for financial events and troubled waters because:• I guide the C team to improve and implement strategies and tactics to get the company from point A to point B.• I work with "C's" and investors to diagnose systems and procedures.• My focus includes, but is not limited to, tax, back office systems and nuts and bolts of accounting and finance.• I create and maintain financial forecasting models that make investors smile: Includes resources, use of funds and runway planning.Entrepreneurs and start-up investors call me because I anticipate the roadblocks and create tactics that work:• I put together the details to make deals happen so that the CEO can focus on vision. • I implement infrastructural processes that work.• I build financial models that tell the story of your business. Attorneys, CPAs and VCs call me to provide the financial and logistical expertise to get their complicated deals done: • start-up financings, • M&A (both buy- and sell-side) • investment due diligence (both investor- and company-side), • cap table clean-up and financial restructurings, • credit defaults and insolvency, and • litigation. Specialties: As the Pacific Northwest's longest-tenured and most experienced consulting CFO, I have worked with over 110 clients on over 100 financings and M&A deals valued at over $500 million: • pharmaceutical and medical device development • SaaS and e-commerce • consumer goods manufacturing and distribution.