Blackfriar works alongside owners, executives and investors to navigate growth, transformation, capitalization and transaction.
Important decisions rarely fit neatly inside a traditional consulting, accounting or investment-banking engagement.
Blackfriar integrates strategic finance, operations, growth and transaction readiness under one accountable relationship—bringing senior judgment and practical execution to the moments that shape enterprise value.
We enter when the stakes are high, the path is unclear and leadership needs more than another recommendation.
Build the financial, operating and commercial systems required to scale without losing control.
Translate complexity into a focused agenda, clear accountability and measurable enterprise value.
Strengthen the story, model and infrastructure behind a financing or recapitalization.
Prepare leadership, information and operations for acquisition, sale or strategic partnership.
Blackfriar connects decisions that are too often made in isolation. The result is a plan leadership can understand, finance and execute.
Enterprise strategy, value-creation planning, organizational design and performance accountability.
Forecasting, reporting, capital structure, financing readiness and management decision support.
Operating models, systems, controls, risk architecture and scalable corporate infrastructure.
Commercial strategy, partnerships, diligence preparation, acquisitions and exit readiness.
Understand the economics, constraints, opportunities and risks.
Establish the decisions, priorities and measurable outcomes.
Create the financial, operating and commercial infrastructure.
Work alongside leadership until strategy becomes performance.
The Enterprise Diagnostic is where most relationships start. Three weeks, a fixed fee, and a ranked set of levers with a number attached to each one — delivered as a working session, not a report in your inbox. If it does not surface at least three times its fee in value you can reach, you pay nothing.
The Enterprise DiagnosticFounder
Acquired Vantium Capital, a specialty finance company, alongside a business partner and an institutional investment partner — then served as its chief executive officer and a member of its board. Chief financial officer of an oil and gas company. President of a family office. President and in-house counsel of a public financial services company.
Trained as a corporate, securities and commercial real estate lawyer. Has built, led and exited operating businesses across real estate, hospitality and athletic performance.
Blackfriar Ventures partners with a limited number of emerging companies where our operating capabilities can materially accelerate enterprise value.
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“The objective is not more advice. It is a more valuable, resilient and executable enterprise.”
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