A family firm · Columbus, Ohio

Your next CFO or COO,
one to two days a week.

Wyatt Sparks puts an experienced operator in the finance seat or the operations seat at companies from $50M to $1B. John Wyatt sits as CFO and Paul Wyatt as COO, and strategy comes with either one. The path is agreed before it starts, and your team runs it after we leave.

Start a conversation Which seat do you need?
Operators in the seat. Not more advisors at the door.

Which seat do you need?

The CFO seat

The controller runs the books and the bank package, and nobody owns the forecast. The board wants a plan it can believe. You are deciding where the next dollar goes, and nobody is building the case forward from the facts. This seat owns the forecast and capital allocation, and the controller, the CPA firm and outside counsel report up to it. Your controller stays. The seat sits above the books. This is John's seat.

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The COO seat

The company still runs on the founder, or on you. There is no weekly operating cadence, so every variance lands on your desk. The plan says one number and the schedule still lives in a spreadsheet, and the build-versus-buy decisions are stacking up. This seat builds the cadence and fixes the process before the tool. This is Paul's seat.

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The firm's record, told straight

We built at enterprise scale. We work where it counts double.

29 years
leading Macy's operations: 700+ stores, $1.5B in budget oversight, and a Fortune 500 growth career built on numbers that held.
$15M → $100M
Annual run rate in 18 months, on our own forecast. And a corporate career with fifty approved investment cases over $1M.
Built & exited
Founded Virsyn in 2025, built AI inside real businesses, and exited in 2026 through its partnership with C4SaaS.

Plus the quiet work: businesses valued for owners who needed the truth, growth strategies handed off working, transactions where we did the middle work until the numbers held, and our own money in small businesses along the way.

If your business makes things, moves things, or sells things, we've run the discipline your problem lives in.

The principals

Father and son, each hired on his own.

John Wyatt

John Wyatt

The CFO seat

The CFO seat. Started in finance stress-testing other people's business cases, then grew a $15M business to a $100M run rate on his own forecast. His edge is translating a shared vision into an action plan with dates and owners.

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Paul Wyatt

Paul Wyatt

The COO seat

The COO seat. Twenty-nine years leading Macy's operations: 700+ stores, teams of thousands, $1.5B in budget oversight. Builds the operating cadence, fixes the process before the tool, and is the build-versus-buy voice on every engagement.

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How we work

The path is agreed before it starts.

1. Assessment

The operating baseline, documented. Your numbers, built forward from facts, and the levers named.

2. The agreed path

Milestones, owners, and dates we set together. An agreed path with an accountability partner is how we work. Dictated direction is how we don't.

3. Execute and hand off

We take the seat, run the cadence, and teach your team to run it without us. The handoff is the point, not the afterthought. Ninety days is the minimum, not the length.

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