Our Approach
Our experience has shown that a lot of valuable knowledge about a business is embedded within most organizations, especially smaller ones. Many factors inhibit the percolation of this knowledge to the surface: organizational reporting relationships; leadership styles; tenure and work experience of senior managers; lengthy, unfocused meetings that are tribal rituals; the fear of standing apart from a consensus; and a feeling that senior management does not care or will not listen.
We do not believe in bringing in teams of specialists which appear to be a high-powered replica of your own staff. This more typical consulting model generates more hours, more expense and often sows mistrust. Our ability to communicate across lots of different disciplines and to understand the distinct personalities and needs of sales teams, marketing groups, product development teams, engineers, production managers gives us a different perception within a client company, which leads to a real collaboration in discovering what needs to be done, what can be done better, and what actions are actually destroying value.
Testimonials
“Using his Wall Street and public company CFO experience, Eapen Chacko provided MedicalCV, Inc. with senior financial executive leadership. Mr. Chacko implemented corporate governance at the board and senior management levels, provided general business and operational strategy and tactical solutions, ensured financial integrity and controls throughout the organization, created an information technology platform and policy, provided oversight of the 401(k) and investment policy, and built the infrastructure required for a public company.”Eric Podevels, former Controller of MedicalCV, Inc.
“Eapen is a detail oriented manager who watches the balance sheet like a hawk without losing sight of the strategic objective.”
Michael Fredrick, former Assistant Controller of MedicalCV, Inc.
"As a growing public company with an emerging technology, Possis Medical's revenues were doubling annually. Yet our burn rate was about $1 million per month when Eapen Chacko joined as our CFO. Eapen quickly encouraged the management team to take bold steps to cut our costs and to reinvest in our business. The company quickly became profitable. With his in-depth knowledge of Wall Street, the management team delivered results that never disappointed investors. The market rewarded the company by tripling its stock price in just two years."
T.V. Rao, Former VP, Sales and Marketing, Possis Medical, Inc