Paul Burns

About Paul Burns

Paul Burns is a Partner of Tarsus CFO Services, LLC. Tarsus provides C-level services and…

Experience

1. Co-founder & Partner

   Tarsus

   Feb 2002 — Present

   During his tenure at Tarsus, Paul has helped clients grow significantly while serving as outsourced CFO, assisting financial and strategic buyers as well as senior and mezzanine lenders in pre-transaction due diligence, leading numerous complex problem-solving projects for clients, serving as Director of several Tarsus portfolio companies and clients, staffing and managing many long-term C-level strategic and financial consulting engagements and helping build Tarsus through planning, development, execution and management roles.Example accomplishments include helping a client that was experiencing stalled growth and deteriorating margins quadruple in size and expand EBITDA margin by 16 percentage points, leading a number of capital formation projects that resulted in growth capital under better-than-market terms or vital liquidity for companies in the midst of a turnaround and outsourcing critical and complicated reporting responsibilities for a client following an unexpected event.

Education

• Kansas State University

  BS, Finance (Cum Laude)

  1989 — 1993

Skills

• Portfolio Management
• Corporate Finance
• Cash Flow Forecasting
• Acquisition Integration
• Executive Management
• Mergers
• Private Equity
• Financial Reporting
• Financial Analysis
• Strategic Planning
• Valuation
• Banking
• Financial Modeling
• Investment Banking
• Due Diligence
• Financial Structuring
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Business Strategy
• Managerial Finance