Scott McGurk is a Partner and Executive Committee Member at Inglewood, and one of the steadiest hands a company can have in its finance seat when the stakes are highest. He brings more than 35 years of accounting and business experience, including over 20 years serving as CFO or Controller across the service, healthcare, construction, and manufacturing industries. When leadership needs clarity on the numbers and a plan to protect the enterprise, Scott is the person they call.
His specialty is the discipline that separates survival from collapse: managing cash flow through complex distressed situations, including bankruptcy proceedings. Where others see a crisis, Scott sees a sequence of decisions to be sequenced, funded, and executed. He builds the visibility and the controls that let owners, lenders, and boards make hard calls with confidence rather than fear.
As an interim CFO and financial leader, Scott steps into the operating chair and runs it, not from a distance but from inside the business. He is currently providing financial management and interim leadership across multiple client engagements at once, a testament to how much trust the market places in his judgment and his ability to stabilize an organization fast.
Scott reflects Inglewood's core belief that its advisors are business people first, not lifetime consultants. He has carried real profit-and-loss responsibility, closed real books under pressure, and answered to real lenders. That operating credibility is exactly what makes his counsel land. Working from Cleveland and across the Great Lakes, he gives distressed and growing companies alike a finance leader who has genuinely done the job.
Core experience
- Partner & Executive Committee Member at Inglewood
- 35+ years of accounting and business experience
- 20+ years serving as CFO or Controller
- Across service, healthcare, construction, and manufacturing industries
- Cash flow management in distressed situations, including bankruptcy proceedings
- Currently leading interim finance across multiple client engagements
Core Disciplines
Where Scott goes deep
Interim & Fractional CFO Leadership
At Inglewood, interim CFO leadership means placing a proven financial executive directly into the operating seat to steady a company through transition. Scott McGurk brings over 20 years as a CFO or Controller to these engagements, taking ownership of reporting, controls, and the day-to-day financial decisions that keep a business running. Rather than advising from the sidelines, he runs the finance function, closes the books under pressure, and gives owners, boards, and lenders a credible, accountable leader in the chair when they need one most.
Distressed Cash Flow Management
Cash is the oxygen of a company in distress, and managing it is Scott McGurk's core discipline. At Inglewood, distressed cash flow management means building rolling forecasts, prioritizing obligations, and creating the daily visibility that keeps a strained business solvent. With more than 35 years of accounting experience, Scott turns uncertainty into a sequenced, fundable plan, giving leadership the runway and the clarity to make hard decisions before liquidity forces their hand. It is the difference between a controlled restructuring and an uncontrolled failure.
Bankruptcy & Insolvency Financial Support
Bankruptcy proceedings demand rigorous, defensible financial management, and Scott McGurk has guided companies through exactly these complex situations. At Inglewood, this discipline covers cash management, reporting, and financial oversight through insolvency, protecting value for stakeholders while the legal process runs its course. Scott's experience managing cash flows inside distressed and bankruptcy scenarios means clients get a finance leader who understands both the numbers and the constraints, keeping operations funded and credible when scrutiny is at its peak.
Turnaround & Financial Restructuring
Turnaround work at Inglewood pairs operating credibility with financial discipline to move a troubled company from crisis to stability. Scott McGurk contributes decades of hands-on CFO and Controller experience to these engagements, diagnosing where cash and performance are leaking and installing the controls and reporting to reverse it. His approach is practical and execution-focused, reflecting Inglewood's identity as business people first, not lifetime consultants, and giving clients a restructuring partner who has actually carried the financial responsibility he now helps them manage.
CFO & Controller Advisory Across Industries
Deep, cross-industry financial leadership is a hallmark of Scott McGurk's career. Having served as CFO or Controller across the service, healthcare, construction, and manufacturing sectors, he brings pattern recognition that few advisors can match. At Inglewood, this discipline means translating the specific economics of an industry into sound accounting, forecasting, and financial strategy. Whether a business is scaling, stabilizing, or under strain, Scott adapts proven financial-management fundamentals to its reality, delivering the clarity and structure that leadership needs to act.
From Scott
Insights & commentary
Turnaround & RestructuringMost companies wait too long to call. Here's the moment they should have.
Most owners call a turnaround firm only after the decision has been made for them. Here are the financial, operational, and crisis warning signs — and the moment to act while you still have options.
Turnaround & RestructuringSection 363 Sales Without the Legalese
A plain-English guide to Section 363 sales — how the stalking-horse bid, the auction, the timeline, and the stakeholders work together to sell a distressed business free and clear and preserve enterprise value a slow liquidation would destroy.
Finance & AnalyticsA Bank Request That Actually Helps You: The 13-Week Cash Flow Forecast
That call from the bank asking for a 13-week cash flow forecast? Done right, it is one of the most practical management tools a business under pressure can run.
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