​CFO | Senior Management Consultant | Start-ups
 
Dallas, TEXAS October 13, 2021/ - SE​ATONHILL PARTNERS, LP, the nation’s fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm, is pleased to announce that Doug Richardson has joined as a Partner in the firm’s Chicago office.

Richardson has over 30 years of executive experience in chief financial and compliance officer roles providing financial, compliance, information technology, and operations leadership to various mid-market companies. His key focus has been on the development of growth-orientated strategic and tactical planning at the CEO and board level tied to internal financial and operational control, forecasting processes and procedures, and risk management.  While at Arthur Anderson, Doug garnered international experience when he worked in Russia to develop standard practices and rules of conduct for operating within Russian capital and investment markets.  Prior to joining SeatonHill, Doug was the Chief Financial Officer at Lift Works, Inc., a provider of aerial lift and materials handling equipment rentals, sales, maintenance, and repair services.

John Ball, co-founder and CEO of SeatonHill states: "Doug’s solid background in multiple disciplines, from finance and compliance to IT, coupled with his brokerage experience both domestic and international makes him a tremendous asset to our world-class team.”

Doug Richardson comments: “SeatonHill’s leadership and national scope in the CFO services space is second to none.  I’m excited to join this best-in-class team and look forward to helping our clients overcome the challenges to their business and adopt and drive growth orientated-strategies.”

Richardson earned a BS in Accounting from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA). 
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​SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP
SeatonHill Partners (www.SeatonHill.com) is the fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm in the nation, solving common to complex financial problems that create risk to survival and growth for thousands of small/medium-sized businesses.  For more than a decade, SeatonHill has applied the skill and experience only a team of seasoned business finance executives can bring to position its clients for long-term stability and success. Unlike other national firms with their loose federations of individual contributors, we combine the thought leadership and support of a closely knit partnership of top CFOs nationwide to benefit every client. SeatonHill has offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Houston, New York, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Detroit, Boston, New Orleans, and London.
  
For more information, please contact:  
contact@SeatonHill.com | 214.702.3652 | www.SeatonHill.com 

​CFO | Senior Management Consultant | Start-ups
 
Dallas, TEXAS October 12, 2021/ - SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP, the nation’s fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm, is pleased to announce that Charles Hubbard has joined as a Partner in the firm’s New York office.

Hubbard has over 30 years of diversified senior financial management, operations, and administration experience with top-tier financial corporations including Merrill Lynch, Credit Agricole, UBS and HSBC.  He also helped found and build the infrastructure of a sophisticated start-up registered investment advisor and hedge fund entity.  His successful projects demonstrate a high level of expertise in strategic planning, regulatory compliance, profitable business development, restructuring, and treasury and risk management.  In addition to autonomous engagements in his own practice, Charles worked as an independent partner with prominent consulting firms such as Business Talent Group and Tatum on financial management and CFO assignments. Prior to joining SeatonHill, Charles was the managing partner of Hubbard and Associates where he assisted CFOs to fulfill short- and mid-term initiatives requiring integration of strategic goals with financial controls. The firm focused on reporting, due diligence, risk assessment, benchmarking, and performance measurement necessary for optimizing disparate organizational entities. 

John Ball, co-founder and CEO of SeatonHill states: "Charles has a remarkable level of experience in both large-scale international investment banking and in facilitating early-stage venture capital. He is a most welcome addition to our firm and will be a great resource for SeatonHill’s middle market clients.”

Charles Hubbard comments: “I'm excited to join this group of world-class professionals and look forward to applying my many years of financial, operational, and investment experience to help our clients establish best practices and growth-orientated strategies.”

Hubbard earned an MBA degree in Finance and Operations from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and BA and Masters degrees in Chemical Engineering from Rice University in Houston, Texas.

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​SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP
SeatonHill Partners (www.SeatonHill.com) is the fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm in the nation, solving common to complex financial problems that create risk to survival and growth for thousands of small/medium-sized businesses.  For more than a decade, SeatonHill has applied the skill and experience only a team of seasoned business finance executives can bring to position its clients for long-term stability and success. Unlike other national firms with their loose federations of individual contributors, we combine the thought leadership and support of a closely knit partnership of top CFOs nationwide to benefit every client. SeatonHill has offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Houston, New York, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Detroit, Boston, New Orleans, and London.
  
For more information, please contact:  
contact@SeatonHill.com | 214.702.3652 | www.SeatonHill.com 

Strategic CFO | Healthcare Operations | M&A
 
Dallas, TEXAS September 28, 2021/ - SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP, the nation’s fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm, is pleased to announce that Lisa Napier Martin has joined as a Partner in the firm’s New Orleans Office.

Napier Martin’s career spans over 30 years in executive level healthcare financial operations where she has worked with community hospitals, tertiary medical centers, for/not-for-profit, academic, research hospitals, and ACO environments.  Her core skills include her ability to assess and identify revenue enhancement and cost containment opportunities such as contract management, clinical documentation, productivity and denials management, and AR performance improvement. In addition to traditional CFO responsibilities, Lisa's diverse experience includes the operational conversion of acquisition, merging, and joint venture hospitals, in addition to orchestrating one hospital's move to its replacement facility while simultaneously redesigning its workflows.  She has also managed joint ventures, physician practices and provider-based clinics, worked with organized unions, and developed 501c3 foundations.  Prior to SeatonHill Lisa was the Regional Chief Financial Officer at Steward Healthcare in Boston, Massachusetts.

John Ball, co-founder and CEO of SeatonHill states: "Lisa's extensive financial and operational experience in the healthcare industry where's she's provided strategic guidance to a multitude of diverse, complex organizations is remarkable. She will be a key asset to our healthcare clients.”

Lisa Napier Martin comments: “I look forward to being the strategic and operational change agent that enables our clients to take their organization to the next level.”    
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Lisa earned a BBA degree in Accounting from Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky.
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SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP
SeatonHill Partners (www.SeatonHill.com) is the fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm in the nation, solving common to complex financial problems that create risk to survival and growth for thousands of small/medium-sized businesses.  For more than a decade, SeatonHill has applied the skill and experience only a team of seasoned business finance executives can bring to position its clients for long-term stability and success. Unlike other national firms with their loose federations of individual contributors, we combine the thought leadership and support of a closely knit partnership of top CFOs nationwide to benefit every client. SeatonHill has offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Houston, New York, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Detroit, Boston, New Orleans, and London.
  
For more information, please contact:  
contact@SeatonHill.com | 214.702.3652 | www.SeatonHill.com 

Public Company CFO | SEC | Regulatory Compliance | M&A
 
Dallas, TEXAS September 14, 2021/ - SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP, the nation’s fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm, is pleased to announce that Greg Skinner has joined as its first Partner in the Bay Area based in San Jose.

For over twenty years, Skinner was the CFO of Landec Corporation (LNDC), a public $500 million leading innovator of diversified health and wellness solutions with two operating businesses: Curation Foods, Inc. (a fresh produce processor and distributor) and Lifecore Biomedical, Inc. (a CDMO for FDA regulated medical devices and drugs). In addition to being the Executive VP of Finance and CFO, he was also the Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Risk Officer, and VP of Administration. During his career, Greg led the financial team for ten acquisitions and six divestitures (which cumulatively raised over $100 million) and for many of these transactions was the lead negotiator and worked with legal counsel to draft the agreements. Greg completed six debt raises/refinancings/restructurings, where he raised over $400 million. He has also consummated numerous equity-related transactions including PIPEs, shelf registrations, stock buybacks and convertible, redeemable preferred stock offerings. In addition, Greg has spent virtually his entire career working in public companies and has therefore gained considerable experience and knowledge surrounding current SEC rules and regulations, GAAP, IR/PR, investor presentations, NDRs, BOD presentations, HR, recruiting research analysts and working with many third-party service providers including legal, investment bankers, auditors, banks, insurance brokers, comp consultants, BOD advisors, IR/PR advisors, and tax and valuation experts.

John Ball, co-founder and CEO of SeatonHill states: "Greg’s impressive 20-year tenure as CFO with Landec Corporation including his other executive and C-level roles have resulted in a rare, comprehensive understanding of company dynamics and change. This extensive experience will be of tremendous benefit to the small and medium sized businesses we serve at SeatonHill.”

Greg Skinner comments: “I have worked in many industries over the years and experienced about everything you can when growing a company from less than $2 million in revenues to over $500 million.  I look forward to bringing this knowledge to clients of SeatonHill.”    

Skinner earned a BA in Accounting (1st in class) from the University of Tulsa and completed the Executive Program for Growing Companies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 
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​SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP
SeatonHill Partners (www.SeatonHill.com) is the fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm in the nation, solving common to complex financial problems that create risk to survival and growth for thousands of small/medium-sized businesses.  For more than a decade, SeatonHill has applied the skill and experience only a team of seasoned business finance executives can bring to position its clients for long-term stability and success. Unlike other national firms with their loose federations of individual contributors, we combine the thought leadership and support of a closely knit partnership of top CFOs nationwide to benefit every client. SeatonHill has offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Houston, New York, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Detroit, Boston, and London.
  
For more information, please contact:  
contact@SeatonHill.com | 214.702.3652 | www.SeatonHill.com 

CFO | Interim Leadership | Mergers and Acquisitions
 
Dallas, TEXAS September 8, 2021/ - SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP, the nation’s fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm, is pleased to announce that Jeff Wonsmos has joined as a Partner in the firm's Dallas office.
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Wonsmos has worked for over 20 years in both industry and consulting leadership roles, with focus on operational accounting and treasury. Jeff has extensive experience partnering with CEOs and owners to provide strategic leadership to enhance financial reporting, cash management, forecasting, and the integration of systems, processes, and personnel. He also has a background in CFO and Controller roles across the construction, healthcare, financial services, technology, manufacturing, retail, wholesale, and distribution industries.  Jeff has managed several acquisitions, integrations, and carve-outs.  Recently, he served as Interim CFO and Controller for a $110 million nationwide professional services firm, where he partnered with the CEO to implement a 100-day plan to assess the existing team, processes, financial reporting, budgeting, and liquidity management, and then execute upon recommended improvements.

John Ball, co-founder and CEO of SeatonHill states, "Jeff's wide range of financial leadership experience across multiple industries is impressive.  He is the ideal advisor to our small- to middle-market business clients.  We are delighted to have him join the SeatonHill team.”

Jeff Wonsmos comments, “I look forward to providing our clients with the operational and strategic guidance necessary to optimize growth and capitalize on new opportunities to expand their business.”    

Wonsmos earned an MBA in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas and a BBA in Accounting from Texas A&M University. 

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SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP
SeatonHill Partners (www.SeatonHill.com) is the fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm in the nation, solving common to complex financial problems that create risk to survival and growth for thousands of small/medium-sized businesses.  For more than a decade, SeatonHill has applied the skill and experience only a team of seasoned business finance executives can bring to position its clients for long-term stability and success. Unlike other national firms with their loose federations of individual contributors, we combine the thought leadership and support of a closely knit partnership of top CFOs nationwide to benefit every client. SeatonHill has offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Houston, New York, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Detroit, Boston, and London.
  
For more information, please contact:  
contact@SeatonHill.com | 214.702.3652 | www.SeatonHill.com 

​CFO | FinTech | Next Level Planning    
 
Dallas, TEXAS July 27, 2021/ - SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP, the nation’s fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm, is pleased to announce that Ken Hoogs has joined as a Partner in the firm's Atlanta office.
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Over his 25-year career, Hoogs has performed as CFO with a track record of success in financial planning, treasury, and operations.  He is a GAAP expert, experienced with money-center banking operations and FP&A of diversified financial and technology firms at both public and private companies, US and international.  As a Big-4 consultant and in Treasurer roles, he developed and implemented risk management systems and controls, accounting procedures, hedging models, portfolio management systems, and corporate reporting across all business lines and in investment firms for all investment asset classes.  Ken is known as a Next Level Planner at innovative companies of all sizes and a FinTech and payments expert who has led successful industry digital transformations at the forefront of many complex industries, totaling over $10 billion in revenues combined. He is a proven effective leader and deal negotiator who has hired teams in all areas and has managed the business development efforts for large M&A, private equity, and venture capital portfolio companies. As a buy-side advisor and finance executive for high-net-worth-owned companies, Ken has worked in 10 corporate leadership and ownership roles and has conducted hundreds of short-term engagements with both large and small firms to obtain growth capital or achieve successful exits.

John Ball, co-founder and CEO of SeatonHill states: "Ken’s extensive background with money-center operations and investment banking, coupled with his proven track record providing highly strategic next-level planning and FinTech guidance will be a crucial asset for the firm’s rapidly expanding client base.”
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Ken Hoogs comments: “Thank you to all recent clients, partners, friends on past investments and company leadership.   It is an honor and pleasure to join the SeatonHill Partners team, which represents the NextGen aggressive CFO leaders for the middle market.  Today's environment presents our clients with a multitude of corporate M&A growth opportunities and capital choices. These choices often confront our clients with complex decisions involving financial management systems, new asset classes, treasury market volatility, investment cycle shifts, product-line cost challenges, and e-commerce and payments migration.  In all these areas and more, I look forward to guiding our clients with the right strategies to achieve long-term success.”

Hoogs earned an MBA in Finance and International Business from Columbia Business School. 
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​SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP
SeatonHill Partners (www.SeatonHill.com) is the fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm in the nation, solving common to complex financial problems that create risk to survival and growth for thousands of small/medium-sized businesses.  For more than a decade, SeatonHill has applied the skill and experience only a team of seasoned business finance executives can bring to position its clients for long-term stability and success. Unlike other national firms with their loose federations of individual contributors, we combine the thought leadership and support of a closely knit partnership of top CFOs nationwide to benefit every client. SeatonHill has offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Houston, New York, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Detroit, Boston, and London.
  
For more information, please contact:  
contact@SeatonHill.com | 214.702.3652 | www.SeatonHill.com 

DALLAS, TEXAS July 22, 2021/ - SEATONHILL PARTNERS, a strategic CFO services firm, is pleased to announce significant progress with its national growth strategy.  Founded in Dallas/Fort Worth in 2009 with three Partners, the firm currently has over 50 Partners in 17 cities and 12 states. That number is expected to exceed 100 by year end near 300 by the end of 2022.
 
For companies with financial issues that create risk to survival and growth, SeatonHill provides the seasoned business and financial leadership to ensure its clients long-term stability and success. Unlike other firms that offer loose federations of individual contributors, SeatonHill brings the combined thought leadership and support of a closely knit partnership of top CFOs nationwide that benefits every client.
 
Whether serving in an advisory capacity or as the Chief Financial Officer, SeatonHill’s team of financial leaders brings a track record of having secured hundreds of millions in capital, taken scores of companies public, provided insightful information for critical decisions, and worked with hundreds of leadership teams to develop and execute breakthrough growth strategies.
 
John Ball, co-founder and CEO of SeatonHill states: "I am delighted with the success of our national growth strategy, enabling us to better serve our rapidly growing list of clients throughout the United States. Over the next several months, we look forward to meeting local business leaders in our new markets to discover how we may work together to help their clients and ours grow and prosper.”
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SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP
SeatonHill provides fractional and interim outsourced CFO solutions, including operational and financial leadership services, and transaction support services. The company partners with small and mid-sized businesses to increase their odds of achieving increased revenue, bottom line, and cash flow results.
 
Headquartered in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, SeatonHill also operates from offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, Phoenix, New York, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta and London.
  
Learn more at SeatonHill.com | contact@SeatonHill.com | 214.702.3652 

CFO | Consulting | Advisory Boards
 
Dallas, TEXAS July 7, 2021/ - SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP, the nation’s fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm, is pleased to announce that Thomas Powell has joined as a Partner in the firm's Boston office.

Powell is a seasoned middle-market company executive with career focus on consumer foods and agribusiness, including bakeries with large foodservice sales to national customers, restaurants, and farm to supermarket operations. Tom specializes in helping domestic and international family and closely held organizations navigate distressed and high-growth situations where he implements operational improvements, enhances managerial control, and leads negotiations with secured and unsecured lenders to maintain liquidity under challenging and cash flow constrained circumstances. The annual sales of his clients range from $5 million to $1 billion.  Tom has extensive experience in governance, SEC reporting, and board-level work; he is an active member of the Turnaround Management Association.

John Ball, co-founder and CEO of SeatonHill states: "Tom’s extensive experience within the consumer food and agribusiness sectors, coupled his extraordinary ability to shepherd distressed and high-growth entities to stability and profitability will be a fantastic resource for our clientele.”

Tom Powell comments: “The talent, capability, and national reach of SeatonHill is impressive.  I’m excited to join the firm and look forward to guiding our clients into stable, profitable waters.”      
Tom earned an MBA from The Wharton School and an AB from the University of Pennsylvania.

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​SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP
SeatonHill Partners (www.SeatonHill.com) is the fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm in the nation, solving common to complex financial problems that create risk to survival and growth for thousands of small/medium-sized businesses.  For more than a decade, SeatonHill has applied the skill and experience only a team of seasoned business finance executives can bring to position its clients for long-term stability and success. Unlike other national firms with their loose federations of individual contributors, we combine the thought leadership and support of a closely knit partnership of top CFOs nationwide to benefit every client. SeatonHill has offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Houston, New York, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Detroit, Boston, and London.
  
For more information, please contact:  
contact@SeatonHill.com | 214.702.3652 | www.SeatonHill.com 

CFO | Chief Accounting Officer | Boards    
 
Dallas, TEXAS June 30, 2021/ - SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP, the nation’s fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm, is pleased to announce that Craig Owen has joined as a Partner in the firm's Houston office.

Owen is an accomplished CFO, senior finance executive, and board advisor with almost 30 years of experience.  His career focus has been within the Energy sector where Craig drove growth, developed strategy, facilitated acquisitions and divestitures, and raised public and private financing.  He has extensive experience with major corporate transactions including onshore, offshore, midstream, and international assets. Craig has led public company integrations, M&A and A&D activities, and ERP selection and implementations.  Prior to joining SeatonHill, Craig was CFO at Rosehill Resources in Houston where he positioned Rosehill in the public energy space following its creation in a SPAC transaction.  He supported a strategy that grew revenues by 750% and included public and private equity and debt financing. Craig's expertise is leading through change and creating and driving business results, while instituting accounting procedures and controls to support business needs, financial reporting, compliance, and disclosure requirements.

John Ball, co-founder and CEO of SeatonHill states: "Craig's proven ability to develop growth-oriented strategies synchronized with market conditions is impressive.  He is a welcome addition to the firm and will be a great asset to our energy sector clients.”

Craig Owen comments: “I am excited to join this diverse, immensely talented group of individuals, and look forward to working with our clients to implement the right strategies to achieve long-term success.”      

Craig earned a BBA in Accounting from Texas A&M University.  He is a CPA and a member of the American Institute of CPAs.

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​SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP
SeatonHill Partners (www.SeatonHill.com) is the fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm in the nation, solving common to complex financial problems that create risk to survival and growth for thousands of small/medium-sized businesses.  For more than a decade, SeatonHill has applied the skill and experience only a team of seasoned business finance executives can bring to position its clients for long-term stability and success. Unlike other national firms with their loose federations of individual contributors, we combine the thought leadership and support of a closely knit partnership of top CFOs nationwide to benefit every client. SeatonHill has offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Houston, New York, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Detroit, Boston, and London.
  
For more information, please contact:  
contact@SeatonHill.com | 214.702.3652 | www.SeatonHill.com 

CFO | Strategic Planning | Organizational Leadership    
 
Dallas, TEXAS June 30, 2021/ - SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP, the nation’s fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm, is pleased to announce that Chris Ruffner has joined as a Partner in the firm's Houston office.
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For over 25 years, Ruffner has performed within Big 4 audit and senior executive roles for both public and private companies.  His expertise is in enabling high-growth companies to optimize operational efficiency and refine and expand models of profitability.  Vertical expertise includes private equity-backed mid-tier oilfield services, midstream oil and gas, manufacturing, and construction. His international experience includes leading large finance teams in-country, including expatriate rotations in Scotland and Norway.  Core skills include financial reporting, inventory and cost accounting, HR, legal, risk management, M&A, and back office and ERP system integration.  Prior to SeatonHill, Chris served as fractional CFO for multiple oil and gas companies and as CFO for Endurance Lift Holdings, a $300 million provider of artificial lift products, and Innovex Downhole Solutions, a $300 million provider of well completion and well construction downhole equipment.

John Ball, co-founder and CEO of SeatonHill states: "The depth of knowledge that Chris brings from both the energy and manufacturing sectors, domestic and international, coupled with his proven ability to streamline operations towards increased profitability will be of tremendous benefit to our clients.”

Chris Ruffner comments: “I look forward to developing our clients into high-growth organizations by applying big company best practices that enhance their operational efficiency and profit trajectory.”      

Craig earned an MA in Accountancy from the University of Georgia and a BS in Mathematics from Davidson College in North Carolina.  He is a CPA. 
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​SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP
SeatonHill Partners (www.SeatonHill.com) is the fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm in the nation, solving common to complex financial problems that create risk to survival and growth for thousands of small/medium-sized businesses.  For more than a decade, SeatonHill has applied the skill and experience only a team of seasoned business finance executives can bring to position its clients for long-term stability and success. Unlike other national firms with their loose federations of individual contributors, we combine the thought leadership and support of a closely knit partnership of top CFOs nationwide to benefit every client. SeatonHill has offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Houston, New York, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Detroit, Boston, and London.
  
For more information, please contact:  
contact@SeatonHill.com | 214.702.3652 | www.SeatonHill.com