FOUNDATION
  • Accounting Systems
  • Cash Flow Processes
  • Advisor Coordination
HEALTH
  • Budgeting & Forecasting
  • Production & Operations
  • Banking & Capital
GROWTH
  • Strategic Financial Planning
  • Risk Assessments
  • Revenue
  • Operating Rhythm
VALUE
  • Succession or Exit Planning
  • Readiness & Attractiveness
  • Price/Multiple

Area President

Greater Pittsburgh
About

Tom has over 25 years of executive level managerial and financial experience in small privately-held and family-owned businesses. His recent experience was as a partner and CFO with two high tech start-ups spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Tom understands the complexities of starting a business and the challenges of growing a profitable business and is looking forward to sharing his insights and experience with others.

Tom lives in the north hills area of Pittsburgh with his wife Darlene.

Get to know Tom’s other interests

Other Interests

  • Favorite books:  John Grisham novels
  • Favorite music:  I am a Classic Rock guy
  • Favorite movie:  The Godfather movies

Before FocusCFO

Tom started his career in public accounting at Arthur Andersen & Co., then went on to work with a privately-held oil & gas client in Pittsburgh as VP-Finance. He and the management team negotiated its sale to a publicly-traded oil & gas company. Tom joined ABARTA, a family-owned group of businesses, where he was the CFO of ABARTA Oil & Gas Co. for 23 years until retiring to pursue working with friends and family start-ups. For the two years prior to joining FocusCFO, Tom was a partner, Board member, and CFO of two artificial intelligence companies spun out of Carnegie Mellon University.

Tom attended Duquesne University, receiving a BSBA degree in Accounting.

What attracted you to FocusCFO?

All the great people!

CONTACT

Get in touch with Tom

Fill out our short form below and Tom will be in touch with you soon.

At FocusCFO, we help you direct your financial strategy and achieve your goals, giving you the freedom to change your life.

FocusCFO provides expert to help entrepreneurs like you overcome these obstacles and achieve sustainable, transferable business value.

Our fractional CFOs provide the expertise of a full-time CFO at a fraction of the cost, with the flexibility to scale your support as needed. You will gain a clear understanding of your financial performance, streamline your operations, and develop a strategic roadmap for success.
pin-icon

Part of Your Team

Our experienced CFOs become an embedded part of your leadership team, providing strategic financial guidance to drive growth and profitability
level-icon

C-Level Experience

Benefit from the insights of seasoned financial executives who have decades of experience working in industry, not just for it, as financial executives and entrepreneurs.
team-icon

Team Approach

Leverage the collective wisdom of our collaborative team of CFOs - decades of expertise and best practices derived from a culture of collaboration and teamwork.

THE VALUE PYRAMID PROCESS

Guiding entrepreneurs on the climb to building sustainable, transferable business value

Our fractional CFOs provide the expertise of a full-time CFO at a fraction of the cost, with the flexibility to scale your support as needed. You will gain a clear understanding of your financial performance, streamline your operations, and develop a strategic roadmap for success.

value
value-hover

4

value

Succession or Exit
Readiness & Attractiveness
Price/Multiple
growth-normal
growth-hover

3

growth

Planning
Risk
Revenue
Operating Rhythm
health-normal
health-hover

2

Health

Budgeting & Forecasting
Production & Operations
Banking & Capital
foundation-normal
foundation-hover

1

Foundation

Accounting Systems
Cash Flow Forecasting
Policies & Processes
Advisor Coordination
mbl-value-normal
mbl-value-hover

4

value

mbl-growth-normal
mbl-growth-hover

3

growth

mbl-health-normal
mbl-health-hover

2

Health

mbl-foundation-normal
mbl-foundation-hover

1

Foundation

shape1 shape2 shape3
shape1 shape2 shape3
shape1 shape2 shape3
shape1 shape2 shape3