Chris Podolsky

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ABOUT CHRIS PODOLSKY

Providing private and private-equity owned businesses with full-time or fractional CFO leadership support. I specialize in businesses with annual revenues between $50-500 million. With my background as a Big Four trained CA and 25+ years of Controller & CFO experience in private & publicly traded companies, I bring big company knowledge, experience and discipline to mid-size private organizations that are experiencing rapid growth, liquidity challenges or looking to \"professionalize\" their business for an impending sale. Extensive experience with team and organizational restructurings, debt and capital management and Mergers & Acquisitions support/leadership.Career accomplishments include:* Leadership through liquidity crisis and successful restructure of debt facility * Led extensive finance team restructurings and development of new business processes and systems* Successful navigation during COVID years with effective working capital and debt management* Successful sale of private-equity owned business to global EPC firm, doubling EV to $400m*$120m refinancing and repatriation of bank syndicate from US to Canada* Balance sheet management - reduced senior debt to EBITDA ratio from 4.1x to 2.1x;* P&L management - driver of significant cost reductions, performance efficiency and revenue growth* Extensive mergers and acquisitions support and post-acquisition integration leader* Created a Canadian Shared Services unit and enhanced operational finance at the business unit level* Developed consistent and meaningful key performance metrics and reporting standards globally