We are the foundation beneath good decisions. Senior finance, strategy, and operations leadership for organizations that need the base built right, so what comes next can rise.
Most firms pick one: the safe pair of hands or the growth story. We think the two belong together. A foundation is only worth building because of what stands on it.
We build the base first: clean books, real visibility, and sound processes. Growth should stand on something solid.
We scale toward the operational moves that actually shift outcomes, not growth for its own sake.
When the work changes, we change with it together. People are the foundation here, not a line item.
Better questions beat more reports. We optimize for decisions, not activity.
Plain answers, confidence without overpromising, and value you can measure. Clarity is not pressure. Clarity is kindness.
We build capability and leaders that outlive the engagement, not dependence on us. Success is what keeps working after we leave.
We build the foundation. You build what comes next.
White-collar and back-office expertise: fractional executives who take the seat, and consulting teams who build the machinery behind it.
Financial diagnostics, forecasting, KPIs, cash-flow discipline, and a steady hand on every decision with a dollar sign attached.
Interim executive leadership through transitions, turnarounds, and growth phases. Accountable, senior, and temporary by design.
Experienced PM leadership that keeps initiatives moving. Coordination, follow-through, and honest status reports.
Roadmaps, planning, and decision support grounded in your real numbers.
Practical adoption: where automation genuinely helps, and where automation does not.
ERP and systems work: selection, configuration, integration, adoption.
On-call counsel for leaders and teams, shaped around the moment at hand rather than a fixed program. Available when the question arrives.
HR, admin, and process design. The quiet machinery that makes growth possible.
Foundations look different in every industry. These are the ones where we have stood in the work ourselves.
Nonprofit advisory remains a standing commitment: durable foundations for mission-driven organizations, with stewardship of every dollar so the work can grow.
Different organizations, one common thread: they have outgrown their foundation, or they are about to. We meet you where you stand.
You built something real. Now the finances, systems, and back office need to catch up to the business you actually run.
Every dollar carries a promise. We help you steward it with the same rigor a business would demand, in service of the mission.
Investors expect reporting, forecasting, and controls that hold up under scrutiny. We build them fast, and to institutional standards.
Every engagement is scaled to what you actually need, never more. Start with a single deliverable or a full partnership; the door swings both ways.
Defined scope, defined price. Best for one-time diagnostics or discrete build projects: a financial health check, a roadmap, a working model.
Pay for time as it is used, against a tiered rate card. The right resource is matched to the task, so you never pay executive rates for coordination work.
A reserved block of hours each month at a preferred rate: priority access, predictable budgeting, and a partner who already knows your business.
A foundation is best judged by what stands on it.
No leverage model, no hand-offs to junior staff. The people you meet are the people who do the work.
I'm an executive leader and entrepreneur with a proven track record of building scalable organizations at the intersection of operations, finance, compliance, HR, and technology. Over more than a decade at Human-I-T, I helped the team grow ITAD and Digital Equity values streams and associated revenues from $0 to $40M, leading vision, strategy, and execution across finance, accounting, governance, risk, compliance, operations, and the allocation of financial and human capital.
My leadership philosophy blends strategic coaching leadership with fiscal discipline and innovation. I've guided organizations through significant digital transformations. Notable implementations I have led vision, strategy and overseen execution for include AI product development, ERP, HRIS, CRM, e-commerce, spend management, travel, CLM, and work management systems; championing AI-powered solutions across sales, marketing, communication, compliance, contract management, and risk oversight. I've also led certification and audit readiness at scale, ensuring alignment with ISO and regulatory standards (fiscal, tax, ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 - quality, environmental, health & safety) while maintaining agility. The throughline is consistent: aligning governance with growth to build resilient, transparent, future-ready enterprises.
My teams and I helped deliver impact and operate across three continents (North America, Eurasia, and South America) and nine countries (U.S., Canada, Mexico, Ecuador, U.K., France, Vietnam, China, and the UAE): distributing 523,000+ devices, connecting 110,000 households to affordable internet, supporting 35,000 families with technical support, providing 12,000+ recipients with digital literacy training, and diverting 15,000,000+ pounds of e-waste from landfills. We did this in partnership with organizations including Amazon, Disney, AT&T, Visa, Mastercard, and the Rocket Family of Companies, among many others.
Today, as CEO and Co-Founder of MoveWize and Managing Partner at Cimientu Advisory, I bring my experience of building companies and people-centric, problem solving to help my businesses and those we support thrive, in an intelligence-driven future. I serve on global advisory boards and contribute to professional communities focused on leadership, re-skilling, AI + technological transformation, and financial strategy. At my core, I'm committed to driving growth with integrity, empowering people + teams, and delivering long-term value for shareholders, stakeholders, and communities alike.
I am a CFO and finance leader focused on making the economics of consumer and retail businesses clearer — understanding how pricing, inventory, capital, and working capital are interacting, and bringing greater discipline to how they are deployed against demand.
Over my career, I’ve led finance and operations across multi-brand consumer platforms at the mid-market and upper mid-market level — often PE-backed and operating through both growth and capital-constrained situations, where the gap between operating decisions and financial outcomes has real consequences.
The consistent focus: stabilizing margin, improving cash conversion, and giving leadership a clear view of where the business is generating and consuming cash.
I do my best work during periods of growth, complexity, or structural change — when tighter alignment between operating decisions and financial outcomes is what the business needs most.
Carol is a proven leader and social innovator in the nonprofit sector. Under her leadership, the National Organization on Disability (NOD) has launched an employment-focused agenda to partner with Corporate America to create job opportunities for people with disabilities.
Carol is a speaker and subject matter expert on issues regarding the employment of people with disabilities and has addressed audiences at national conferences, corporate forums and higher education institutions, among others. Some of Carol’s commentary has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, TIME, the Wall Street Journal and The Huffington Post, where she maintains a blog on disability employment-related matters. Carol has also appeared on nationally syndicated television and radio broadcasts, including the Today Show, Good Morning America, National Public Radio (NPR), Disability Matters with Joyce Bender on VoiceAmerica, The Business of Giving with Denver Frederick on AM 970, and Connections on WXXI News.
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Global industrial executive with CEO and CFO experience in the energy, chemicals, and manufacturing industries, I have a proven track record of leading organizations through transformational growth, strategic mergers, acquisitions, and operational excellence. My approach to leadership emphasizes unifying teams across functions, streamlining processes, and building infrastructure to drive profitability and sustainable growth. I take pride in fostering cultures of empowerment and accountability, where teams are aligned with strategic goals and each individual is motivated to excel.
Throughout my career, I have overseen the financial and operational optimization of global organizations, integrating core functions such as Accounting, Finance, HR, IT, and Legal to enhance efficiency and scalability. My data-driven decision-making, coupled with sound fiscal management, ensures both short-term profitability and long-term value creation. Whether leading M&A initiatives or driving organic growth, my focus remains on operational excellence, stakeholder value, and the development of high-performing teams.
My foundation is in agile project management and product ownership: running sprints, prioritizing backlogs, and delivering cross-functional projects for global ecommerce and digital promotions teams in the UK and North America, including roles at Insyt Agency, Opia Limited, and DST Systems. That early discipline in structured delivery is still the backbone of how I run engagements, clear requirements, honest communication, and no surprises.
That discipline carried me into contract lifecycle management (CLM), where I spent years as a DocuSign CLM Solution Architect at Uptima and as a Project Manager and Technical Consultant at Audet Magna. I architected CLM and Salesforce integrated solutions and developed a specialty in document generation and template architecture, the piece that sets the tone for every project and is often the first thing to break. Too many CLM implementations miss the fundamentals: parent child contract structures, tracked document changes, legacy contract migration. I know that because I've lived inside the mess those gaps create, and it's exactly why I now know what to build and implement differently.
Today, I'm the co-founder of Nextraxion, where I'm building the contract data extraction platform I spent 15 years wishing existed, one that moves businesses off manual legacy uploads and onto API driven contract data pipelines. I'm also the founder of NexCLM, where I lead tailored CLM implementations for clients across pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, manufacturing, real estate, and education, and I serve as COO of MoveWize, a property technology platform where I help lead product strategy and technology direction, building capabilities like real time transaction tracking, smart property dashboards, and AI driven inspection summaries.
If your contracts are living in inboxes, spreadsheets, or a CLM that nobody trusts, that's usually where I start.
A senior finance executive who works with your organization part-time: financial diagnostics, forecasting, KPIs, and cash-flow discipline at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire. Executive-level judgment, scaled to what you actually need.
Pre-revenue to $200MM: small and mid-market businesses, nonprofits, and PE-backed growth companies. The common thread is a foundation that needs to catch up to the organization standing on it.
Three ways in, no lock-in: fixed-fee deliverables with defined scope and price, hourly and project work against a tiered rate card, or a monthly retainer with a reserved block of hours at a preferred rate.
Six stages that form a complete 12-month relationship: financial diagnostics and analysis, strategic planning and KPI development, financial model implementation and reporting, monthly strategy and profit optimization sessions, annual review and planning, plus on-demand project and decision support that runs in parallel. Commission any single stage or the full program.
Capital expenditure evaluation, financing options analysis, strategic acquisition assessment, loan application preparation, debt restructuring, pricing decisions, customer contract analysis, vendor recommendations and negotiations, and working capital optimization. Analysis and recommendations are delivered within 5 to 7 business days.
Fractional CEO and project management leadership, strategy, AI and technology adoption, ERP and systems execution, back office operations (HR, admin, process design), and nonprofit advisory. The same tiered approach applies: the right resource is matched to the task, so you never pay executive rates for coordination work.
Cimientu comes from the Asturian word for foundation. That is the belief the firm is built on: get the base right, and what comes next can rise.
The best first messages are not polished. The best first messages are clear. A few things that make it easier for us to help:
Instead of "can you help with our finances?" try "we need a 13-week cash-flow model before our April board meeting." Concrete asks get concrete answers.
"We are a $4M nonprofit that just lost our finance director." Knowing where you stand, and why you are asking now, helps us respond usefully on the first pass.
If there is a fit, we will say so plainly. If there is not, we will point you to someone better suited. Either way, you will hear back from a person.
"Clarity is not pressure. Clarity is kindness."
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