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Tim’s leadership has been nothing short of essential to our success. Taking the financial helm of a portfolio company amid a major restructuring, his insight and experience helped transform the business from a point of great uncertainty to profitability and growth.  Tasked with navigating large operational, customer, and employee complexities, along with multiple investor groups, he quickly uncovered and solved some of our most challenging problems in a high-pressure environment. Tim was the missing link we didn’t know we needed – greatly exceeding our expectations and expanding the definition of a strategic CFO. He will be our go-to partner in the future.

Alex has been a great resource and a pleasure to work with. She was diligent and meticulous. INDA benefited from a resource that provided regular backup to our existing staff as well as lead business processes and IT improvements in the finance area. Her level of effort was so appreciated, and I truly hope I have the opportunity to work with Alex in the future.

We hired Kim right before we switched from QuickBooks online to NetSuite. With her guidance, we were able to make the right decisions and setup NetSuite in the most efficient way. In addition, she implemented a closing process for our accounting team, which enables us to get financials ready in a timely manner. We love her honest feedback and suggestions to make our accounting team more efficient. She understands our business!

 

I first worked with John for nearly 15 years at my previous company, SCYNEXIS. In fact, John was the first full time finance employee, grew to become the Director of Finance, and helped take the company public in 2014 on the NASDAQ.  Needless to say, it was a great experience for us all, and John was on the team that made it happen.

When I started a new company, Ribogenics, of course it made perfect sense for me to go back to John for Finance. He came the first day, and we were in business!

John is not only a great numbers guy; he also understands the Biotech ecosystem: investors both public and private, shareholders, partners, principal investigators, administrative support and scientists. He communicates easily with Board members and very quickly gained their trust.  John also communicates well with scientists that may not have all the financial and operational knowledge required to build and grow a Biotech company. He is also very responsive in the demands of the stakeholders and good at prioritizing his job.

In a matter of 6 months, we put in place a complete team with the facility and raised $7M as seed money.  I left the company at the end of 2021, but John stayed on to ensure that the evolution of Ribogenics was well managed.

Overall, when I have my next biotech project, I’m calling John!

Kathy’s role as our fractional Controller was instrumental during a critical transition period for our CFO. Her adeptness in grasping the nuances of our organization dedicated to early childhood development was remarkable. Not only did she ensure a seamless operational flow, but her strategic insights and recommendations were invaluable, particularly because they came from an objective, external viewpoint. Yet, despite being an outsider, Kathy assimilated effortlessly into our team, becoming an indispensable asset throughout her four-and-a-half-month engagement.

We have found a valuable asset to add to our team, our Rankin McKenzie Partner. Like many businesses, our financial situation is unique to our business. He jumped right in to learn how our business operates to get a full understanding of our current financial picture and future financial needs. Our Partner has assisted with cash flow forecasting to ease the challenges that come with a seasonal business. He’s been instrumental in assisting with new software integration and restructuring our chart of accounts to easily pull financial data. Gaining access to this data is a game changer for our business. Our RM Partner is personable, genuine, honest, and works hard to make himself available to us. I’ve learned so much from him in the short time that he’s been working with us.  I’m excited to continue working with him to better the business.

We had zero doubt when we met with Justin the first time that he was the right person to help out, but what we didn’t know was just how big of an impact he was going to have.

Justin has been a huge help in getting a big mess fixed. When Justin got here, we thought we were pretty good on our accounting side and just needed him to help prepare for a SBA loan. However, after a few days of him being here, we realized there was so much that we had not done: organizing our sales, fixing pay plans, correcting taxes, and helping us for growth. Saying that Justin just came in here to help with accounting would be an understatement. After guidance from Justin on the structure of the company, I feel extremely confident knowing that moving forward we are much more prepared for growth and how to retain more of the income.

He’s always there even when he’s not at the office to help with a question or a problem; he’s gone way above and beyond what we expected. We really feel like he’s part of the company and not just some accounting nerd who comes in to crunch numbers. I would highly recommend Justin.

What a tremendous asset our Rankin McKenzie Partner has been to our firm. Our consulting engineering firm is over 46 years old but had never had a true financial professional on staff and so the fractional CFO fit our needs perfectly. Our Partner spent a great deal of time and effort in the beginning to understand every aspect of our business, not just the financial data. His goal was clearly to make sure his input was customized to our firm. With this background, he helped us create metrics and KPIs to understand both what our current financial health was and what trends in the data showed us about the future. This is information we never had before, and it has helped us reinforce our culture of personal responsibility and accountability. With his help and guidance, we have been able to grow our firm’s revenue by more than 35% over the last two years with significant increases in profitability, and we have increased our staff by 20%, all during a global pandemic! We now exceed the top performers in our industry in almost every measurable financial metric.

Steve has headed our finance department for a better part of 5 years, guiding our company through our friends and family round, and then playing an instrumental role in our venture backed Series A financing and initial audit process. The structure that Steve created in our financial reporting made these events seamless. We look forward to our continued relationship with Steve as he guides us through our future growth to Series B and beyond. He’s also a fantastic team player and a pleasure to be around and work with. I would recommend him with the highest possible support, but I don’t want to share him!

Langdon & Company LLP has had the opportunity and pleasure of working with Alex Duhon on several mutual not-for-profit clients. Alex is diligent, hard-working and conscientious about her work product and about her commitment to the client. She always has the client’s best interest in mind. We have enjoyed getting to know Alex and always look forward to working with her.