Why Monashee exists

The organizations that need senior-operator support are often served poorly by both ends of the market. Strategy firms deliver analytical rigor but not execution ownership. Commoditized services have solved the low end but don't carry senior judgment. Between those lives the actual need: work that requires a senior operator with a strategic overlay — owning the outcome, not just describing it. Monashee is built for that work.

Two modes of engagement

Advisory delivers scoped project engagements with fixed-fee or outcome-based structures — for PE firms, portfolio companies, and operating teams across the mid-market and enterprise. Typical engagement shapes include pre-transaction value creation, post-merger integration, technology strategy, CIO advisory, and commercial diagnostics.

Operating delivers embedded leadership on ongoing retainer — a senior operator owning finance, operations, HR, and adjacent workstreams end-to-end, supported by a standardized technology-leveraged practice. Built for technology-enabled and operationally complex companies at stages where the founder has outgrown a stitched setup but isn't ready for a full-time executive hire.

Both modes are led by principals with operator-level experience. Practitioner capacity is drawn from the Monashee network when engagement scope calls for it.

Depth behind the firm

The principals have led or supported:

Detailed representative engagements are available on the Engagements page.

Principals

Chris Finn

Advisory Principal

Chris has built, restructured, and scaled businesses across the full PE lifecycle. As COO of a PE-backed SaaS business, he led the transformation to a recurring revenue model through a successful exit to Vista Equity Partners. He has led pre-transaction restructuring and post-merger integration of global professional services organizations, and practice leadership at IBM, Accenture, and Infosys Consulting.

Current work spans operating model design, technology strategy, CIO advisory, and transaction support for PE-backed, mid-market, and enterprise clients. Denison University, University of Richmond MBA.

Michelle Finn

Operating Principal

Michelle is a 20+ year finance and operations operator with deep experience building finance and operations functions in technology and operationally complex companies. Through Finn Financial, she has led long-duration fractional engagements including fractional Head of Accounting at a B2B marketplace through 10x valuation growth and a successful strategic exit.

Prior senior operating roles include Head of Operations and Controller for a global multi-entity digital assets technology company, VP Finance and Operations at a CRM integration software business, and VP Finance at a data analytics firm across thirteen years of strategy and ownership change. Denison University.

Practitioner network

Monashee maintains a curated network of senior operators — former CIOs, CTOs, CFOs, COOs, CROs, and functional specialists — who take on engagements through the firm either as the primary operator on a specific workstream or as supporting capacity on a larger project. The firm holds the client relationship, delivery standards, and engagement ownership; practitioners focus on the work. More on the Network page.

The Monashee name

The Monashee Mountains sit in the interior of British Columbia — less famous than the Rockies to the east, but longer, more remote, and more difficult terrain. Experienced guides navigate them because the routes aren't obvious from the outside. Private, mid-market, and enterprise organizations operate in terrain that looks standardized until you're inside it. Monashee is built to be the firm you call when you've been inside it before and know the terrain matters.

Firm structure

Monashee Growth Partners is a trade name of Finn Financial LLC, a Virginia limited liability company headquartered in Richmond. The firm is self-funded and operates without outside capital — a deliberate choice that keeps growth expectations aligned with how the firm is built. We grow through disciplined execution against a measured plan.

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