Fractional CFO for founder-led clean energy companies.
Developers, IPPs, and storage operators reach a stage where the next raise, the next project, and the next lender all demand senior finance leadership — before the company can justify a full-time hire. That's the seat I fill.
Dan Johnson
Deloitte Consulting alum · 10+ years as VP, Finance & Technology · Greater Boston
What an engagement covers
- Retained CFO leadership
- Monthly retainer engagements for founder-led companies at the Series A or bootstrapped stage — financial operations, board-ready reporting, cash discipline, and the honest counsel a founder needs before the numbers become a surprise.
- Capital structuring
- Tax-equity bridges, transferability transactions, Reg D raises, and back-leverage — a capital stack matched to the incentive landscape clean energy actually faces in NE-ISO and PJM.
- Project finance
- Project models a lender will actually underwrite: IRR and DSCR that hold up in diligence, sensitivity cases that anticipate the term sheet, and a capital stack matched to the asset.
- Deal support
- Diligence preparation, data-room discipline, and negotiation support when a raise, acquisition, or divestiture is on the table.
How I work
I work with a small number of clients on monthly retainers — deep enough in each business to be accountable for outcomes, senior enough to tell you what you may not want to hear. My background spans twenty years: strategy consulting at Deloitte, then ten-plus years as VP of Finance & Technology for a private construction and millwork firm in Greater Boston, where I built the finance function, the systems, and the capital relationships through a threefold revenue expansion — with specialist training through Pivotal180's Renewable Energy Project Finance program.
I hold one standard in every engagement: the numbers say what is true, especially under deadline pressure. If that's the kind of finance leadership your company needs for this market, we should talk.