Rick Clemon is a fractional CFO who puts “business first”. He is a highly intuitive, creative, and organized cross-functional business leader who excels at adding value and solving problems. His strengths are strategic corporate finance, guiding companies through complex business decisions, advising on practical, financial, and operational implications or transactions, staging companies for M&A and scaling organizations for rapid growth.Rick is uniquely positioned to support his clients, their executives, boards and investors by having been a CFO of VC and PE sponsored companies for the 11+ years of his aggregate 29+ year career which includes “Big 4” audit and consulting / advisory services. He understands accounting supports and informs but does not drive business decisions. Rick primary focus is companies executing growth initiatives, buy- and sell- side M&A, market/product fit and development, operations expansion, business scalability, transactional- and technical- accounting matters and taxation. He looks to add-value working collaboratively across the enterprise landscape leveraging the budgeting and forecasting, modeling, cash flow management, process improvement, KPIs, financial reporting and systems elements of his toolbox. Rick's industry experience spans the technology, aerospace and defense, manufacturing, biotech / life science, CMOS Sensor, consumer electronics and med-tech industries. He has effectively worked with seed stage, venture capital (VC) & private equity (PE) backed companies as well as US SEC and internationally listed organizations. These businesses have ranged from pre-revenue start-ups to multi-billion-dollar annual revenue global enterprises.He is viewed as a strategic thought leader, CFO and cross-functional business partner to the executive suite, board, investors, and leadership team.