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Registered accountant and CFO, brought in when conventional fixes have run out. The job is done when the finance team no longer needs me.
Owner of Grotnes, a metal forming manufacturer in the United States, which means carrying decisions with my own capital. Teacher at the Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, where experienced professionals bring real problems into the room.
Author of The CFO Architect, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in March 2027. Written from the trenches, it shows how financial architecture shapes what organisations can and cannot see. Pre order it on Amazon.
Finance functions built to carry weight across finance, legal, IT, HR, tax and treasury, in international groups and in mid sized businesses with lean support. Leaders recruited and developed to run them after the assignment ends.
Full cycle transactions: strategy, target selection, valuation, due diligence, negotiation and integration. Integration is where most of the value is won or lost.
A short set of metrics the board can act on, backed by the reporting architecture and systems behind them, so the numbers hold up under scrutiny.
Situations where the numbers and the operations no longer agree. An independent view of the options, a recovery plan that works on the shop floor as well as on paper, and the funding to execute it. Includes the turnaround of Strukton, a public group with EUR 2b revenue.
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