John O'Brien

Chief Financial Officer

Greater Boston

About

Diversified financial executive with 20 years of achievement in Start Up and high growth environments. Hands on financial and operational experience implementing practices that increase productivity, efficiency, and overall value of the company.

Experience

  • CFO at Pilot Growth Equity
    2015 - Present · 11 yrs 6 mos

    Pilot Growth Equity is a unique technology growth equity firm focused on venture capital investments in Growth stage private technology companies.

  • CFO Consultant at Contract Consulting
    2015 - Present · 11 yrs 6 mos

    Contract financial and operational consulting. Hands on CFO helping companies with all aspects of accounting, finance, strategy, systems, processes and controls to improve profitability and productivity in organizations pre-revenue to $50 million +.

  • Consulting CFO at CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)
    Jan 2021 - 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Outsourced CFO services

  • CFO at The Brighton Company LLC
    Mar 2017 - 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos

    Outsourced on-demand interim CFO and Accounting Services

  • CFO / Vice President of Finance at FirstBest Systems Inc
    Apr 2007 - Dec 2014 · 7 yrs 9 mos

    - A SaaS product company. Responsible for all aspects of financial and operating environments, lead financial position reporting to the CEO. Scaled finance and administrative teams to support rapid employee and revenue growth. Raised $30 million in 4 rounds of Venture Capital financing and $6 million in debt financing. Enabled processes and controls to improve productivity and efficiency of operations. Directed Risk Management function, through contract and legal document review and administration of corporate insurance program.