GuestSeth Pinegar, West Coast Regional Director, The CFO CentreWebsitehttps://www.cfocentre.com/us/BioSeth has 25+ years’ experience in helping companies successfully seed, develop, grow, finance, operate, strategize, execute, acquire, consolidate and/or enable investor exits – first with nearly a decade in TMT investment banking with JPMorgan and UBS Investment Bank, followed by Corporate Development and CFO roles in several successful technology and services companies. Since 2017 Seth has launched and run CFO Centre first in Shanghai, China and now the West Coast USA, having worked with dozens of clients to bring them the best of its global platform.A business-focused fractional CFO and adviser, Seth’s work has included day-to-day operational work such as restructuring and leading Finance teams, to improving financial reporting and transparency, structuring and leading new business initiatives, operational restructurings and cost reductions, and directing company growth in a financially healthy and investor exit-friendly way.Seth has led over $7bn in equity and debt financings for companies in all stages of development, as well as structured and led M&A transactions (buy-side and sell-side) totaling over $5bn in aggregate value. Having done both numerous times at scale and involving sophisticated counterparties (i.e. institutional investors/lenders and publicly-traded companies), he has an acute awareness of requirements for successful deals, and thus provides exceptional strategic advice for optimizing numerous medium- and long-term outcomes.