Your Board Says Your Company Needs to be Restructured – Now What?
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Corporate restructuring is the process of reorganizing a company’s management, finances, and operations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the company and increase shareholder value.  These changes can also help a business increase productivity, improve the quality of products and services, and reduce costs. The overall goal of restructuring…Read More

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Planning a Medical Device Business is Not for the Faint of Heart
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Creating a business plan for a medical device company is a complex challenge, even for the most experienced founder and management team. A medical device business must contend with many of the same issues that face other technology-driven businesses. These include difficult engineering challenges, fundamental physical or biological constraints, complex…Read More

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Managing CFO Relationships with Third Parties: Auditors, Bankers, Insurers, Lawyers, and Investors
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NOTE: This is the third article in a series from Ron Fior about how CFOs can better manage relationships with CEOs, boards, finance teams, and third parties. CFOs are often asked to both vet and select third party consultants when working on key strategic initiatives that range from financings, M&A…Read More

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Scaling for Growth: Building a Foundation for Your Company’s Next Inflexion Point
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My career as a finance executive in both biotech and medtech Life Sciences companies has included many assignments where growth was imperative, despite prevailing countercurrents in the market and the challenges this imposed internally: At Lipid Sciences, a privately held biotechnology company pursuing HDL therapies for cardiac and viral applications,…Read More

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