Senior finance support for founders and executive teams navigating growth, capital, and transition. Selective engagements. Long-term partnerships.
Senior-level advisory across financial planning, transactions, and operational restructuring. Engagements are scoped to specific outcomes and delivered with the rigour of an executive partner rather than an external vendor.
Confidential one-to-one guidance for finance leaders, founders, and management teams. The work is practical and personal — focused on judgement, communication, and the realities of leading a finance function at scale.
Embedded finance leadership for companies that need senior capability without a full-time hire. Typical mandates include reporting frameworks, capital strategy, and building the foundations of a finance organisation.
Markus Lipp works independently with a small number of clients each year. The work draws on more than two decades as a finance executive, including extended tenures as CEO and CFO of growth-stage and publicly reporting companies across Europe and the United States.
The intent is simple: bring that experience to clients on terms that suit serious, long-horizon work — turnaround situations, capital events, organisational redesign, and the quieter problems that come with running a finance function well.
Markus also teaches financial fundamentals to non-finance professionals through Stanford University's Continuing Studies programme, and writes occasionally on the craft of finance leadership.
A limited number of mandates at any one time. Each engagement begins with a scoping conversation to confirm that the work is genuinely useful and well-matched.
The principal does the work. There is no team of associates and no handoff. What the client sees is what the client gets.
Confidentiality is the default. Client names, deal details, and strategic information remain private unless a client explicitly wishes otherwise.
Most relationships extend over months or years. The work is built for the kind of finance partnership that compounds with time and trust.