Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner
Five decades of turnaround leadership. TMA Lifetime Achievement and two-time Transaction of the Year honoree. CEO & Managing Partner of Inglewood.
Senior experts for critical business transitions
When a business hits a critical turn, senior operators should be in the room.
Inglewood advises owners, boards, and lenders through rapid growth stages, turnarounds, transactions, and the hard decisions in between.
What we do
Four areas of expertise, one senior team.
From building performance to navigating a transaction, our work is organized around the moments that decide a company’s value.
Business Performance
Sharpen strategy, tighten operations, and compound enterprise value — the disciplined work of making a sound company stronger and a strong company great.
Explore Business PerformanceTransitions
Guidance through the highest-stakes moments in a company's life — turnarounds, sales, capital events, and restructurings — where experienced hands protect and maximize value under pressure.
Explore TransitionsManagement
Senior operators in the seat when you need them — interim, fractional, or advisory leadership that steadies the business and owns real accountability from day one.
Explore ManagementFinancial & Data Analysis
The rigorous analysis behind every sound decision — valuations, modeling, forecasting, and diligence that give owners, boards, and lenders numbers they can act on with confidence.
Explore Financial & Data AnalysisSince 1983
Guiding owners, boards, and lenders through critical turns
Partner-led
The senior people you meet are the ones who do the work
Turnaround to growth
From stabilization to structured operating excellence
Northeast Ohio
Rooted locally, engaged with situations nationwide
Where we help
Representative engagements
A sample of the work, one from each family. Explore the full range on Services.
Business Performance
EOS® Implementation
We implement the Entrepreneurial Operating System® so leaders can run the business with shared focus, clear metrics, and weekly accountability — not another set of good intentions.
Learn moreTransitionsTurnaround Consulting
Rapid-response leadership to fix liquidity, restructure operations, and return a distressed business to profitability — or to the best available exit.
Learn moreManagementInterim Management
When a critical seat is unexpectedly empty, the business cannot pause. We place senior operators immediately — to run the function fully until the right permanent leader is hired.
Learn moreFinancial & Data AnalysisM&A Financial Due Diligence
Buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence — rigorous, on time, and built to hold up in negotiation and with lenders.
Learn moreOur approach
We do the work ourselves. No junior teams, no hand-offs.
Every engagement is led by a partner who has carried real responsibility through hard business turns. The senior people you meet in the first conversation are the ones who own the outcome.
That is the whole model: candid counsel, practical tools, and experienced hands on the situation until it is resolved.
The Firm
Led by senior operators
The people at the table have run businesses, not just advised them.
Insights
Perspective from the table
Field notes on the decisions that make or break a business transition.
Leadership
The Interim CFO's First 90 Days
When a company brings in an interim or fractional CFO — after a departure, in a transition, or under financial stress — the first 90 days set the trajectory. A stage-by-stage look at what a seasoned interim finance chief actually does, and in what order.
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Finance & AnalyticsManufacturing Under Pressure: Reshoring Meets the Working-Capital Squeeze
Reshoring is bringing production back to the U.S. — and quietly straining the balance sheets of the mid-market manufacturers winning the new work. Why growth is consuming cash faster than it generates it, and how to fund the ramp without losing the company.
Turnaround & RestructuringThe 13-Week Cash Flow Forecast, Explained
A plain-English guide to the 13-week cash flow forecast — what it is, why it is the single most important tool in a turnaround, how a rolling weekly model is built and used, and what separates a forecast a lender will trust from one it will not.
Turnaround & RestructuringThe Enrollment Cliff Meets the Balance Sheet
A former university president on the board-level turnaround playbook for colleges facing the enrollment cliff and balance-sheet pressure at the same time — the early-warning signals, the financial discipline, and the governance decisions that keep a mission-driven institution solvent.
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