Steven Russell Joins SeatonHill Southeast Team
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Steven Russell Joins Leading CFO Services Firm SeatonHill as Newest Partner on the Southeast Team

Corporate Leadership | Financial Strategy | Organizational Transformation


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ATLANTA, August 4, 2026 - SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP, the nation's fastest-growing strategic CFO services firm, is pleased to announce that Steven Russell has joined as a Partner on the firm's Southeast team.


Steven is an accomplished Chief Financial Officer with more than 30 years of executive leadership experience helping private equity-backed, healthcare, and multi-site organizations improve financial performance, strengthen operations, and execute complex strategic initiatives. Throughout his career, Steven has partnered closely with boards of directors, investors, lenders, and executive leadership teams to guide organizations through turnarounds, recapitalizations, acquisitions, divestitures, and successful exit transactions. His experience spans healthcare services, revenue cycle management, technology, manufacturing, and industrial businesses, where he has consistently built scalable financial organizations, modernized reporting and operating processes, improved liquidity, and positioned companies for long-term growth and value creation. He also has extensive international experience and is a native German speaker.


“Steven brings an outstanding blend of financial leadership, operational expertise, and private equity experience. His track record of leading turnarounds, strengthening financial infrastructure, and helping organizations navigate growth and transformation makes him a tremendous addition to our Southeast team,” shared John Ball, co-founder and Executive Chairman of SeatonHill. 


“I’m excited to join SeatonHill and work alongside such an accomplished team of financial leaders. Throughout my career, I’ve enjoyed partnering with organizations to solve complex business challenges, strengthen financial performance, and build scalable foundations that support long-term growth and value creation,” shared Steven.

 

Steven earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.



ABOUT SEATONHILL PARTNERS, LP


SeatonHill Partners, LP provides organizations’ financial leadership with a strategic and operational focus by placing elite CFO talent to challenge the business and contribute to operational decisions that achieve results. With our curated talent, our financial leaders guide small and medium-sized businesses through complex financial problems to mitigate risk and achieve organizational goals.

 

We are the fastest-growing CFO services firm in the nation, offering the power of combined thought leadership and the support of the country’s top financial talent to the benefit of all our clients. SeatonHill has offices in Atlanta, Austin/San Antonio, Birmingham, Boston, Cedar Rapids, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Madison, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Nashville, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Princeton, Raleigh, Savannah, Tallahassee, Tampa/Sarasota, Washington DC.   



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