Aargo’s senior CFO consultant is Simon Westbrook, a graduate of the UK’s most prestigious university, Cambridge, with a masters in Economics, a Fellow of the British Institute of Chartered Accountants, and years of succesful business experience.

 Successful business experience includes:

• Three IPOs, Two Secondary offerings, One overseas exchange listing
• Three public and ten private company M&A transactions
• Twelve rounds of private Angel and VC fund raising
• A history of happy clients
• Network of professional support service relationships

Simon has carried out years of service in senior financial management roles including private and public company CFO and Corporate controller. His experience and contacts extend to the UK, rest of Europe and India and has spent a number of years overseas gaining an understanding of the cultures and processes necessary for international business to run smoothly.

As a senior member and former board member of the Silicon Valley FEI, Simon has access to call on a select number of hand picked consultants to support him whenever a specialist or time-critical situation emerges.

Over the years Simon has built a network of trusted professional service relationships needed to support a business across the spectrum of specializations and can leverage his relationships to secure the best terms and facilitate concise and responsive deliverables. These include:

• Angel and venture capital investors
• Contract software developers in India and China
• Human resources and employee benefits,
• Recruiters (for full-time or consulting positions)
• Tax (corporate income tax, property tax, sales & use tax, city tax)
• Intellectual property development consultants
• Insurance (D&O, general, liability, E&O, workers Comp)
• Legal (corporate, patent, immigration, labor)
• Financial institutions (banking, leasing)
• CPA firms (Big 4, regional, local)
• Valuers (IRS409A & FAS123R, M&A, purchase price allocation)
• Commercial property professionals (tenant representatives)
• Investment banking
• IT infrastructure outsource professionals
• Payroll service providers
• Zoning and planning compliance

Everyone in the Aargo team is committed to your success through a clear understanding of the situation, a professional approach to the task, and responsive communication of progress and results. We will provide a free first consultation to establish a basis for working together, draft a clear agreement to define the scope of work, timing and compensation, and provide regular progress reports through the final delivery. We are so confident of our work that we will be happy to introduce you to our existing or former clients.