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I don't come at your business like an accountant. I come at it like an engineer — as a system with inputs, constraints, and an output you can forecast.
My background is in computer engineering and machine-learning research, where the whole job is building models that predict how a system behaves before it behaves that way. Applied to a company, that's exactly what a CFO does: turn messy financial reality into a model sharp enough to make the hire, take the loan, or pass on the deal with confidence instead of hope.
I've built full three-statement and LBO models from the ground up — debt waterfalls, borrowing-base mechanics, IRR and margin sensitivities — the same machinery private-equity buyers use to decide what a business is worth. Auris brings that discipline to owners who are running on instinct and a rear-view report, and deserve better.
The promise is simple, and it's the standard I hold every engagement to: the value has to exceed the fee. If a forecast doesn't change a decision or protect a dollar, it isn't worth your money — and I'll tell you that directly.
- Discipline
- Computer engineering and applied machine-learning research — a modeling-first approach to how systems, including businesses, behave under pressure.
- Modeling
- Hands-on three-statement and LBO modeling: debt waterfalls, asset-based borrowing bases, and IRR / MOIC sensitivity analysis built from scratch.
- M&A view
- Deal analysis across lower-middle-market acquisitions — the buy-side lens on what compounds enterprise value versus what quietly erodes it.
- Operating
- Founder of two ventures, so the advice is grounded in what it actually takes to run a lean company — not theory from the outside.