Chris Means CFO / COO · Means Business LLC
20+ yrs senior · ~$500M treasury Hire me

Hawaii based · on-island and remote · available now

Finance and operations leadership to help you steer.

Hire me as your fractional, interim, project, or full-time CFO and COO. I bring both the finance and the operations lens, so the money plan and the build plan move together, and I work shoulder to shoulder with your board, owners, and team. Pick the situation you are in below and move the model. You will see exactly how I help before you ever talk to me.

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200+ employees led · $100M refinanced · ~$300M in capital projects planned and financed

The switchboard

Pick the situation you are in.

Nine spots I get called for. Open the one that fits, move the model with real math, and see the exact CFO and COO moves I would run. Only one opens at a time.

~$500M
Treasury overseen across multi-entity, multi-property operations
$100M
Debt consolidated and refinanced into one facility
~$4.3M
Capital freed from idle infrastructure
200+
Employees led across finance and operations
20+
Years senior in finance and operations leadership

One operator, both seats

What I do as CFO. What I do as COO.

The moves you saw inside each situation come from one person holding both jobs. Here is the full scope, side by side.

CFO scope

The money plan

I run the capital, the cash, and the reporting that lenders, boards, and owners trust.

  • Financial strategy and capital planning
  • Cash flow, working capital, and treasury
  • Banking and lender relationships
  • Debt refinancing and consolidation
  • Budgeting, forecasting, KPI dashboards, board reporting
  • Internal controls, reporting discipline, audit readiness, faster close
  • ERP and CRM and financial system implementation and conversion
  • M&A and transaction readiness
  • Securing funding for bridges, runway, and growth

COO scope

The build plan

I run the operation, the facilities, and the capital projects that turn the plan into revenue.

  • Operations leadership
  • Facilities, safety, and capital projects
  • Facility refresh and new revenue centers
  • Procurement, vendor and contract management
  • Fleet and capital asset procurement and lifecycle
  • Insurance and risk
  • HR and compliance
  • Technology and data systems
  • Master planning and execution alongside the GM or owner

Most fractional help gives you one of these. I give you both, from one head, so nothing falls in the gap between finance and operations.

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Completed work

What that has looked like.

Anonymized and time-boxed. Client names stay private. Same operator behind each one.

Mission-driven · nonprofit
-$812K+$1.6M

Tighter finance discipline and a rebuilt operating model carried a mission-driven nonprofit from a deep operating deficit to a healthy surplus, its first time in the black in over a decade.

Scope: CFO + COO · operating turnaround
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Multi-property group · lending
$100M into one facility

I consolidated and refinanced scattered debt into a single facility, rebuilt covenant and lender reporting, and ran daily cash across the entities so the group stopped fighting its own balance sheet.

Scope: CFO · treasury and refinancing
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Operations · fleet and assets
~$4.3M capital freed

I freed capital from idle infrastructure and built a factory-direct fleet cycling plan that kept operations running through vehicle inventory shortages, while phasing replacements year over year.

Scope: COO · procurement and lifecycle
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How to hire me

Pick the engagement that fits the work.

Short contract or long haul, I flex to the work in front of you.

Ongoing

Fractional

Part-time, steady. I hold the CFO and COO line month over month without a full-time seat on your books.

Starts fast

Interim

Full coverage when a seat goes empty. I step in quickly and keep finance and operations moving.

Defined scope

Project

One outcome, one timeline. A refinance, a system conversion, a capital build, a turnaround.

Right fit

Full-time

When it should be permanent, I will take the chair for the long term.

What I do not do: I am not your tax preparer, your external audit firm, your legal counsel, or a seller of investment, securities, or insurance products. I work alongside those specialists and keep them coordinated.

Tell me what you are facing.

If you opened a situation above, its numbers come with you into this brief. I read every one of these myself and I will tell you plainly whether I am the right hire.

Means Business LLC · means.biz · Hawaii, on-island and remote.

MBA, Utah State University (Huntsman). BS Accounting, University of Utah (Eccles).

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