Peter Aronstam brings more than 35 years of experience in business exits and acquisitions, accounting, finance, banking, and international trade to his clients. His career is marked by a progression of senior finance roles with growth and performance-driven companies, including global banks, large international manufacturers and chief financial officer roles in a variety of emerging growth companies. He is a decisive, focused, and versatile financial executive with uncompromising integrity.

Peter has served as a CFO advisor in a number of industries and businesses. His background includes M&A head of a Fortune 500 company; CFO of start-up VC-backed entrepreneurial companies; manufacturing, technology and service companies; CFO of public companies; corporate and international banking in major multinational banks; managing HR and IT functions; and raising debt and equity for his companies and their customers.

Peter’s diverse background gives him skills to resolve issues not only in the financial arena, but also to assist business owners in analyzing and improving most areas of their business operations. As an entrepreneurial and analytical C-level finance officer, he has taken existing companies and improved their processes, controls, procedures and profitability.

Peter has been involved in the structuring and execution of numerous business acquisitions and exits, and his legal education gives him the valuable ability to interpret and negotiate contracts and ensure that deal terms clearly match the parties' intentions. Peter’s CFO experience helps support business owners who are preparing their businesses for exit or transition. He knows the factors that drive higher valuations and multiples, and he has the hands-on experience to design and execute changes that will increase valuations. He has also dealt with companies with high growth rates and companies that have run into financial problems and have had to downsize. He has many years of expertise in developing financial forecasts that have been used to raise capital and support business plans. His teaching experience and background in developing investor relations programs have created communication skills to equip him to work with investors, boards of directors, and personnel at all company levels to create timely financial reports, implement internal controls, utilize software solutions to reduce costs and generate accurate financial and tax reporting systems. He understands how to take complex strategies and communicate them in a way that makes it easy for others to understand and execute.

Born in South Africa, Peter earned his Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Law and PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Peter has worked in South Africa, Canada, and the USA. He currently lives in Boca Raton, FL.