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Phil Coomes, MBA

Founder & Managing Partner

Phil’s career began in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served as an Embassy Security Detachment Guard at several U.S. Embassies across the globe, eventually leaving the service as a Staff Sergeant to earn his BA in Economics. Since then he has taken on progressively challenging roles in the corporate environment for the past 16 years across a span of industries & operating environments. He’s academically specialized in structured finance & growth-stage startups, earning his MBA in Finance & Entrepreneurship from the University of Washington.

His breadth of experience with direct roles in financial accounting, FP&A, internal audit, tax, treasury, capital fundraises/investor relations and project finance & controlling has earned him the tools he needs to get as hands-on as his clients need him to be. He’s a strategic CFO and not shy to overcoming difficult problems, following the ethos that all Marines carry, that Marines never quit and they never give up.

Phil was born & raised in Washington State (an island kid at heart) and lives in the remote parts of the Texas Hill Country with his wife, where they enjoy farming, permaculture projects and land restoration. He’s a saxophonist - so please let him know if you have an open seat in your jazz combo!