Build the business. Strengthen the numbers.
Create more options.

TGH CFO is the financial leadership and value-building arm of the TGH platform. We help owner-led businesses strengthen control, improve performance, reduce risk, and build enterprise value long before a transaction forces those issues into the open.

Value is built in the operating rhythm.

A more valuable business is not created by a single forecast, valuation, or strategic plan. It is built through repeated decisions: how the company prices, collects cash, allocates people, measures performance, invests in growth, develops leaders, manages risk, and reduces its dependence on the owner.

That work starts with reliable financial information, but it does not end there. Owners need someone who can connect the numbers to the operating decisions that shape cash flow, resilience, and enterprise value.

That is why TGH CFO does not begin by prescribing a monthly package. We begin by diagnosing where the business stands, what the owner is trying to accomplish, and what level of support will actually move the company forward.

Four companies. One integrated purpose.

TGH was built so owners do not have to stitch together disconnected advisors as the business grows, becomes more complex, or approaches a major financial decision. Each company has a distinct role, and they work as one platform:

TGH CFO - makes the business stronger and more valuable. Financial leadership, controllership, cash flow, margins, KPIs, value growth, and turnaround support.

TGH CPAs - helps you keep more of what the business creates. Tax planning, compliance, clean filings, and coordination so fewer dollars and fewer opportunities are lost to avoidable problems.

TGH Valuation - tells you, credibly, what the business is worth. Independent, defensible valuations for planning, ownership, tax, estate, and transaction purposes.

TGH Capital - turns value into a result. Sale, acquisition, recapitalization, and ownership-transition advisory from readiness through close.

Together, we help owners diagnose where they are, route to the right solution, improve what matters, and transact when the time is right.

What makes TGH CFO different

We diagnose before we prescribe.

A company that needs controller discipline should not be sold an oversized CFO engagement. A company facing strategic, cash, capital, or growth decisions should not be limited to backward-looking bookkeeping. We identify the real need first, then build the engagement around it.

We combine controller discipline with CFO judgment.

Strategy rests on the quality of the numbers beneath it. We can strengthen the close, reporting, reconciliations, controls, and finance team, then use that foundation to forecast, allocate capital, improve performance, and guide decisions.

We connect financial performance to enterprise value.

Most CFO work stops at profit, cash, and reporting. Those are essential, but they are also components of a larger objective: building a durable, transferable business with lower risk and more strategic options. We help owners see that connection and act on it.

We build capability, not dependency.

Our role may be hands-on, advisory, or temporary. We can lead the work, guide the internal team, help recruit and develop finance talent, or step back as the company becomes capable of carrying more of the work itself.

We can support the business before, during, and after a transaction.

Because TGH CFO works alongside TGH Capital, the financial preparation does not have to be rebuilt when the owner decides to sell, acquire, recapitalize, or transition ownership. The work carries forward: reporting, earnings support, forecasts, working capital, diligence, and integration.

Who we serve

We work primarily with owner-led businesses that are stabilizing, growing, professionalizing, acquiring, building value, or preparing for a future transition. They are often in the $2M to $50M+ revenue range, but the better indicators are complexity, decision needs, and whether the existing finance function is keeping pace with the business.

Our clients do not all share the same destination. Some want a well-run income-producing company. Some want to grow through acquisition. Some need to repair cash flow or strengthen management. Some want to increase value for several years before a sale. What they share is a desire for clearer information, stronger decisions, and a business that creates more options rather than fewer.

If the business is smaller or the need is narrow, that is not automatically a "no." It may simply mean starting with a focused project, controllership support, or a clear roadmap rather than ongoing CFO advisory.

Let us talk about what the business needs next.

Whether the priority is control, cash flow, profitability, growth, value, or preparation for a future transaction, the first step is the same: a candid conversation about where the business stands and what you are trying to accomplish.

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Troy is a seasoned Fractional CFO, CPA, valuation professional and value growth advisor who has spent more than two decades helping owner-led businesses improve financial performance, strengthen cash flow and build stronger, more valuable companies. His experience also includes working with the TSX Venture Exchange, giving him a unique perspective on how sophisticated investors, capital providers and buyers evaluate businesses.

Today, Troy brings those disciplines together to help lower middle market business owners confront what he calls the 80% Problem: too many businesses are built in a way that leaves the owner with fewer options than they expected when the time comes to make a change.

Through his Fractional CFO and value growth work, Troy helps owners strengthen the financial, operational and strategic foundations of the business so it becomes less dependent on them, more resilient, more profitable and more valuable. The goal is not simply to prepare a company for sale. It is to build a business that creates options for the owner - whether that means continuing to grow, stepping back from day-to-day operations, bringing in management or outside capital, acquiring another company, transitioning to family or employees, or pursuing a transaction when the timing is right.

Because the real measure of a well-built business is not whether it can be sold. It's whether the owner gets to choose what comes next.

Troy G. Hildenbrand

Troy Hildenbrand

CPA, CA, CTP, CVGA, CEPA, CM&AA

Mike Metzger

Mike Metzger is a CFP®, and CVGA® who works with business owners on the financial side of growth. He helps founders get clear on cash flow, profitability, pricing, and long-term strategy while also connecting business decisions to personal financial planning, tax strategy, and wealth building. As both an advisor and business owner, Mike brings a practical, real-world lens to CFO work.

Mike Metzger

CFP, CVGA

Steve Wilkinghoff is the founder of White Label Analytics and the author of Faster Than You Think: How to Stack the Wins With Automation & AI That Your Competitors Can’t Touch, along with 5 other books about analytics and AI.

A former CPA turned automation and AI, automation implementer, Steve has spent his career helping small and mid-market CEOs close the gap between the technology they have, the friction points that creates, and the business processes and decisions they support.

Over nearly two decades working with hundreds of companies across North America, Steve developed the Stacking the Wins Framework - a five-step framework that has helped small and mid-market companies in field services, distribution, professional services, manufacturing, insurance, technology, and financial services turn reactive AI and automation efforts into deliberate, measurable competitive advantage.

Build the business. Strengthen the numbers. Create more options.

Value is built in the operating rhythm.

Who we serve

Troy Hildenbrand

Mike Metzger

Steve Wilkinghoff

Build the business. Strengthen the numbers.
Create more options.