About
CFO Network is a provider of professional financial, accounting and strategic advisory services to businesses of all types nationwide. Since CFO’s founding in 2004, the company has pioneered a unique approach to building its business resulting in strong growth for the company and a deep track record of success for its clients.
Our employees form teams of professionals capable of providing services normally associated with Chief Financial Officers, Controllers, Financial Analysts, Accountants and Accounting Specialists. CFO brings a portfolio of companies together and “timeshares” the team out to each company according to its need. From a company’s perspective it is like hiring a virtual employee, except they get much, much more.
Success by leveraging our cumulative experience.
From our vantage point it seems like we have “seen it all.” This vantage point is unique because our business model allows us to “get in the trenches” with our clients. It feels like there is no problem in business that we have not seen through our experiences with our client base. We achieve success by accumulating and retaining this experience. We are able to quickly identify both problems and opportunities, ask challenging questions, diagnose effective strategies and deploy solutions with our clients to achieve results. We have leveraged this experience by developing a strong complement of business processes and tools we can bring to the table. We can do this effectively when combined with our other two strengths: relationships and people.
Success through people.
CFO seeks to employ, retain and develop great people. People are the bedrock of our company. We have on staff a full complement of financial and accounting professionals capable of meeting the complete spectrum of finance and accounting business needs. Our people are specialist by training, but work in teams providing a true “one-stop-shopping” capability for our clients, allocated on an “as-needed” basis.
Success through building long term relationships.
In everything CFO does, we seek to grow based on a foundation of long term relationships. It is certainly not the easy way to grow and many consulting firms choose the alternative route by employing tactics that are profitable in the short term, but burn bridges in the long term. We believe there is strength in strong relationships, creating value for both sides in the long run. Our business is built on this principle.
We believe in success.
CFO is led by Allen Engstrom, Managing Partner Allen has an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and previously worked for Motorola Semiconductor as well as Intel Corporation in a variety of roles within Finance, Strategy and Business Development. For years prior to joining CFO Allen has been involved in small business development and mentoring, serving on the Planning Committees of both the Arizona Venture Capital Conference and the Arkansas Venture Forum. Allen has also been involved in working with universities such as Arizona State on developing technology into growing companies. Allen’s last role at Intel was an Alliance Manager where he worked directly with small companies to form partnerships with Intel. Prior to that, Allen spent 2.5 years working for Intel Capital executing mergers and acquisitions for Intel’s Communications Group.
In all, CFO Network has a total of 13 full time employees and is continuing in its commitment to grow. One has both an MBA and CPA, two with MBAs, one other with a CPA, one double major in Accounting and Finance, four with finance degrees and three with accounting degrees.