About Aithony

AICFO Founder · Aithony — 26+ years of finance and strategy experience: started in audit and advisory at a Big Four accounting firm, and spent years as CFO and board director at several listed companies. Having been through the full journey from startup, growth and IPO to transformation — I have personally been in the arena for most of the critical decisions you face today.

Aithony, veteran CFO with 26+ years of experience
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26+ years
Finance & Strategy Experience
USD 850M+
Cumulative Fundraising Led
USD 140M+
M&A & Investment Deals
3Markets
NYSE · NASDAQ · HKEX Listings

Whether a business lives or dies often depends less on how hard it works day to day than on whether it makes the right critical decisions at the right time.
Read the landscape, know yourself, time it right. The right decision at one critical juncture can change a company's fate.

— The Founding Philosophy of AICFO

Professional Credentials

HKICPA · Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) qualification
CIA · Certified Internal Auditor
IIA certification · internal control, risk management and governance

Core Expertise

Finance function transformation · business-finance integration
Financial-architecture restructuring, close-process redesign, multi-system consolidation; driving the business-partner model so finance moves from the bookkeeping desk to the business decision table.
  • Finance shared services and function redesign
  • Close / consolidation process redesign
  • Business-finance integrated systems implementation
Fundraising · M&A · IPO
Equity and debt financing, valuation and due diligence, term-sheet negotiation, domestic and overseas listings and post-investment management; long-standing collaboration with leading investment banks, funds and intermediaries.
  • Financing solutions and investor matching
  • Consideration structure and accretion/dilution modeling
  • Full-cycle IPO execution and investor relations
Post-investment management · investor relations
Post-merger integration and post-investment enablement, market-cap and expectations management; roadshows, disclosure and institutional-investor communication, so the capital markets keep reading your value correctly.
  • Post-investment integration and synergy delivery
  • Investor communication and roadshows
  • Market-cap and expectations management
Strategic financial modeling
Driver-based three-statement modeling, three-scenario stress testing, unit economics and sensitivity analysis.
  • Unit economics and growth models
  • Comprehensive budgeting and rolling forecasts
  • Return on investment and scenario modeling
Organization · talent · workforce productivity
Organization design and critical-role pipelines, productivity improvement, so organization capability keeps pace with the business — as headcount grows, make the organization worthy of the strategy first.
  • Talent review and succession planning
  • Workforce productivity and headcount control
  • Organization pacing matched to business rhythm
Crisis management · restructuring · succession
Cash-first emergency stabilization, debt restructuring, business divestiture; succession of control and continuity-plan design.
  • Cash-flow break-point modeling
  • Debt and business restructuring pathways
  • Control and continuity design

Track Record · Representative Engagements

  • Cumulative Fundraising USD 850 million+: equity and debt financing led over the years, totaling more than USD 850 million.
  • M&A & Investment USD 140 million+: M&A and investment deals led, with cumulative consideration exceeding USD 140 million, covering target screening, deal structure and post-merger integration.
  • Listings in Three Markets: led companies through listings on the NYSE, NASDAQ and HKEX; well versed in VIE structures and PRC / US / international financial reporting standards.
  • Crisis Turnaround: against a policy shock and a year-long suspension and rectification, helped the company stop the bleeding, restructure, return to profit and list on the NYSE; driven by high-quality investor relations, the share price quadrupled against its offering price.
  • 0→1 Incubation: involved end to end in incubating a new business platform, responsible for capital-structure design and consideration negotiation; a group subsidiary completed a listing on the NEEQ (New Third Board) and a structural reorganization.
  • Model-Driven Growth: built a driver-based business-finance model, advanced the business-partner model and business-finance integration — pricing, spending and talent retention all grounded in data.
  • Team & Operations: once led a team of 200+ people, directly accountable for revenue, renewal rate and productivity metrics — having led a team is what teaches you how money really gets spent in an organization.
  • Consulting Years: consultant at a Big Four advisory firm, providing internal control, risk and compliance services to leading companies in automotive, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, and telecommunications, and helped build the consulting practice from the ground up.
Talk About Your Business
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