Fractional CFO for Climate

Optimize your finance function for growth and capital raise, so you can focus on everything else. Including saving the world. No big deal.

Full finance solutions.
For a fraction of the price.

An interpretive thought partner for all your finance challenges. Providing..

  • Full visibility and clarity for your numbers.
  • Development and management of your KPIs.
  • Analytical support for your strategic decision making.
  • Deep understanding and network in the climate ecosystem.

Services

Fractional CFO

Full CFO Support for Climate Tech Startups. Manage your financial infrastructure at the process level by overseeing (and/or implementing) admin and accounting teams and ensuring streamlined processes. Guide your ongoing and ad-hoc strategic planning, whether in determining KPIs, building an operational model, strategic financial model, or ad-hoc analysis. Support stakeholder management, particularly board meetings. 

Capital Raise

Support you on all elements of your capital raise journey: determining investment size and vehicle(s), creating investor materials, managing due diligence, and negotiating terms. 

Ad-Hoc Support 

Are you an investor, NGO, government agency or other ecosystem actor? Or a startup looking for finance and strategy support on a specific project? Let’s chat about how I can help.  

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About me

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, eventually releasing 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, killing untold numbers of wildlife. I’m originally from Houston, Texas, and the disaster felt close to home. My concept of climate changed from theoretical to personal in an instant. 

I followed scholarships to USC in Los Angeles, where I studied business with an eye on environmental impact. After school, I worked at Accenture, consulting for the largest public utilities on a variety of operational, technological and financial challenges. Nonetheless, I felt like I was supporting incremental changes rather than paradigm shifts. 

I took a sabbatical, beginning in Mexico City and journeying southward without a final destination. I was in Baños del Agua Santa, Ecuador when Covid-19 shut the world down, ending my trip. In that time I’d learned Spanish and fallen in love with Latin America (and mountain climbing!), so I found a role at Kaya Impacto in Mexico, supporting early stage impact-focused entrepreneurs as a financial consultant.

As Director of Fractional CFO at Kaya Impacto, I worked with more than 20 early-stage startups in the impact ecosystem throughout Latin America, helping them to streamline reporting (budgets of $1 – 4M USD), raise capital ($1 – 5M USD) and efficiently steward their resources to supercharge growth. I also advised impact investors on investment strategy, supported due diligence processes and lead the development of custom financial instruments to achieve financial and impact goals.

Now, as Founder and Managing Director of Cool Change Consulting, I exclusively support climate-focused startups with Fractional CFO and Financial Consulting services. I’m glad to lend my skills to support companies solving our biggest problems – providing cool changes for a warming world. 

Let's talk

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