About Us
For over 30 years, we have worked successfully with companies internationally to solve business problems and operating challenges, and substantially improve business performance, profits and valuation. We are distinguished by our client centric approach, decades of real executive leadership and corporate board service experience, honed from leading successful companies in the US and internationally, and producing superior financial results, and our strong client relationships.
Our primary focus is on increasing valuation and economic returns for our client organizations. We employ a uniquely holistic approach and thoughtfully examine every area of business operations, and the critical drivers of business performance, before creating and executing effective solutions to improve overall business performance, cashflow and valuation. One size does not fit all, and each situation is uniquely different. We have generated significant and sustainable growth in revenues, operating profit, cashflow and valuation for our client companies.
Our mission is to help our client companies move the needle on financial performance and company valuation, by utilizing our board and executive leadership, operations and financial experience, to remedy the issues that are driving sub-optimal performance.
Our Team
Our team works closely together, optimizing our experience, skills and talents to each client situation. We also work with an array of other professionals to supplement our team on client engagements, as required. We carefully manage our team resources to provide a seamless high quality experience for our clients.
Firm Principals
Richard Munro has over 30 years’ experience bringing effective leadership to growth and underperforming businesses and improving their performance, measured by outstanding growth in revenue and market share, profits, return on capital employed, and value to shareholders. He has held senior positions as a CEO, CFO, COO, CRO, Court appointed Receiver, Court appointed Expert and fiduciary, strategic advisory positions, and served as a Director on public, private equity, private company, and multinational company boards. Richard is recognized as being very effective in identifying problems that create business underperformance and financial distress, and quickly implementing practical solutions which result in profitable growth, and higher valuation and recoveries for lenders and creditors. He combines the unique experiences of a CEO and CFO and has extensive successful experience in growing the top line and bottom line in companies with a strong focus on managing operations and increasing cashflow and enterprise value for shareholders.
His experience includes various healthcare delivery entities, manufacturing, food, construction, consumer products, specialty retail, and professional services industry sectors.
Richard is a Fellow Chartered Accountant, is a recognized Board Leadership Fellow and Directorship Certified (NACD D.C.) by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), and is a California licensed real estate broker (01900072)
Scott Capifoni has more than 25 years of diverse executive financial management experience with both middle market companies and entrepreneurial ventures. His core strengths are in helping clients to understand their true financial and operations results from effectively developing and implementing measurable key indicators. Regardless whether the situation is a crisis management/turnaround, start-up opportunity, high growth or mature business, his broad experience over many years in both consulting and operations has given him the analytical tools to quickly assess breakdowns in systems and processes and implement corrective improvements.
His common sense communication style and analytical skills, provide him with the unique ability to help build the necessary connective solutions that bring operations, finance and information systems departments working towards common goals. He has served in a diverse range of industries including, manufacturing, distribution, professional services, construction/development and technology, and understands the financial costing metrics and best practices that successfully drive each sector. He has assisted his clients with obtaining debt financing and has experience with negotiating large credit facilities with lenders.
Lucy Watson has over 20 years of accounting and finance experience. Her past employers include Fortune 500 companies Arthur Andersen, Disney and Pepsi. In addition to traditional public accounting and corporate finance work, she has worked in litigation accounting, which has given her a unique perspective in working with companies’ financials. Lucy’s experience spans several industries, mainly in the professional service industry, but extends to the healthcare, restaurant, retail and construction industries as well. As a QuickBooks ProAdvisor and CPA, she has specialized in working with entrepreneurs to grow their businesses and accurately account for their transactions. Her attention to detail and extensive understanding of accounting and bookkeeping enables her to provide clients with reliable financials they can trust to make important business decisions.His common sense communication style and analytical skills, provide him with the unique ability to help build the necessary connective solutions that bring operations, finance and information systems departments working towards common goals. He has served in a diverse range of industries including, manufacturing, distribution, professional services, construction/development and technology, and understands the financial costing metrics and best practices that successfully drive each sector. He has assisted his clients with obtaining debt financing and has experience with negotiating large credit facilities with lenders.