Tell us about your business and where you want it to be in five years. We will come to the call having read it properly, and we will spend the hour on your situation rather than on our credentials. No pitch, no obligation, no charge.
Chicago · Cape Town · Nairobi, working across the United States, East Africa and Southern Africa, and expanding into Latin America.
We work across Central Time, South African Standard Time and East Africa Time, so there is almost always a workable hour in your day.
The questions below take about five minutes. They are the same questions we would ask in the first ten minutes of a call, answering them in advance means we can skip straight to the useful part. Everything you share is confidential and goes only to Cary.
Your answers are with Cary. You will hear back within one business day with a few times that work in your time zone. If it is urgent, WhatsApp or call +1 (312) 953-6519 and say so, we will find an hour sooner.
— Cary J. Berman, Founder, Global CFO Solutions
Cary reads your answers personally and replies with two or three times that work across your time zone.
We talk about your business, your five-year ambition and the thing currently in the way. Bring your model or your last board pack if you have them. Bring nothing if you do not.
A short written summary of what we heard, what we would prioritise, and what we would do first. Yours to keep and act on, with or without us.
A scoped proposal with deliverables, timeline and fees in writing. If we are not the right people, we will say so, and where we can we will point you to who is.
Yes, a full hour, no charge and no obligation. You leave with our honest read on your finance function whether or not anything follows.
Nothing is required. If you have a financial model, your last board pack, or a recent set of management accounts, they make the hour sharper. If you do not have any of those, that is itself useful information.
Completely. Your answers go only to Cary and are never shared. We are happy to sign an NDA before the call if you would prefer, just say so in the form.
Not at all. Much of our work has always been outside the United States: eighteen-plus years across Africa and Asia, with bases in Chicago, Cape Town and Nairobi. We work regularly across East Africa and Southern Africa, and we are actively building in Latin America.
