Ali Sedighi, MBA

Why owners call him

Ali has done the things he advises on. He has started companies with nothing but a plan, grown them to the point where they could run without him, scaled them, sold them, and lived with the transition afterwards. His MBA is in technology management, and his working life has been spent where marketing promises, operating reality and the balance sheet meet.

That matters in finance. A forecast is only as good as the understanding of how the business actually makes money. A dashboard is only useful if it shows the numbers the owner will act on. Ali reads a company the way someone who has had to make its payroll would, and that is the reading a growing business needs from its finance seat.

How he works on an engagement

• Leads every engagement personally, and takes fractional executive seats himself where the plan needs them.
• Starts from the financials, the customer data and the operating facts, then forms an opinion.
• Delivers working systems: the 13-week cash flow, the budget, the dashboard, the monthly close, the pricing model, and the people trained to keep them running.
• Works alongside your CPA. Tax and assurance stay with them; he makes their job easier and never gives tax advice.
• Says no early when the numbers say the plan does not hold together.

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