Experienced, Diligent and Passionate Finance Professionals
When it come to strategy development and execution, there is no substitute for skill and experience. Our breath of experience and depth of knowledge enables us to give our clients exceptional work product and advice that will provide them with the competitive advantage needed to achieve their financial goals and objectives.
Who We Are
Benchmark Solutions, Inc. is a boutique business advisory that provides high quality corporate finance and business valuation services to some of the most innovative, creative, existing and emerging companies in the beverage, healthcare, and technology industries.
Headquartered in Reno, Nevada, we are highly skilled and experienced corporate finance and business valuation professionals providing services used to effectively and efficiently manage operations, measure and increase business value, and earn a required rate of return for the benefit of business owners and their stakeholders. We believe in embracing change, specifically change brought about by industry advancements and innovation, because such change provides opportunity.
Our firm specializes in high quality, scalable Financial Planning and Analysis services as well as Business Valuation, Merger & Acquisition and Business Intelligence Solutions. From Fundamental Financial Analysis to Forecasting, Business Planning, Decision Support, and Business Valuation and Merger & Acquisition Advisory, we assist our clients as they plan new business start-ups, expansion projects, new product/service launches, mergers and acquisitions, as well as achieving more effective and efficient operations. We bring extensive experience and professionalism to every project and customize our services to support our clients' individual needs and concerns.
Our financial advisors individually possess over twenty-five (25) years of experience as financial executives in industry. Our breadth of experience and depth of knowledge enables us to give our clients exceptional work product and advice that will provide them with the competitive advantage needed to achieve their financial goals and objectives.
Financial Advisors
executive director and Strategic Financial advisor
Paul B. Finch, MBA
Professionally, Paul has been a leader in the contemporary movement elevating Chief Financial Officer duties and responsibilities beyond accounting by applying the strategic functions of Forecasting, Financial Analysis, Financial Planning, and Business Valuation for purposes of improving Business Performance, Financial Decision Making processes and the reliability of Merger and Acquisition assessments. As a Strategic Financial Advisor, Paul supports each of his client’s goals and objectives through a rigorous analytical process that examines macro elements of their business such as the firm’s business model and competitive advantage as well as company specific measures pertaining to profitability, earnings quality, growth prospects, risks and exposures.
Prior to co-founding Benchmark Solutions, Paul began his career as a Controller at a food brokerage firm in the agricultural industry. Later in his career, Paul became a Corporate Controller in a multi-specialty medical group practice and went on to serve as a Chief Financial Officer for several firms in the healthcare and technology space. Through Benchmark Solutions, Paul has been both an in-house and virtual Senior Financial Executive in the fields of agriculture, beverage, healthcare and technology for clients large and small for more than 25 years. Specializing in early stage firms experiencing rapid growth, as well as mature firms desiring to engage in expansion, merger and acquisition and business optimization, Paul is a recognized subject matter expert in Financial Analysis, Financial Planning, and Business Valuation and has published many articles pertaining to these topics, some of which can be found on this website. Paul also has considerable experience in capital structure optimization and capital acquisition.
Education
REGIS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
M.B.A., Accounting & Finance (with Graduate Honors)
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
B.A., Economics
Activities & Affiliations
• Institute of Management Accountants, Member in Good Standing
• NACVA, Business Valuation Certification Training
• Heritage Bank of Commerce, Advisory Board Chairman (2012-2016)
executive director and economist
Susan Finch, MS, MBA
For more than 20 years, Susan has focused her career on the various facets of corporate finance that revolve around historical, current and predictive views of business operations for clients for the express purpose of forecasting sales, production and optimal pricing in order to achieve more effective and efficient operations. As an economist, Susan has expertise in economic modeling (econometric modeling). Susan’s work product is in three primary areas (i) market structure and competitive analysis as a means to assess a firm’s competitive strategies; (ii) assessments of current and forecasted macroeconomic activity used as component variables in company specific predictive modeling; and (iii) measures of industry/company specific product demand and supply elasticities as a means of forecasting sales, production and optimal product pricing.
Prior to co-founding Benchmark Solutions, Susan was a Vice-President of Marketing as well as holding several similar executive positions within the hospitality industry. In more recent years, through Benchmark Solutions, Susan has held key Senior Finance positions, both in-house and virtual, in the fields of healthcare and technology.
Education
REGIS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
M.B.A., Accounting & Finance (with Graduate Honors)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ
M.S., Corporate Finance & Applied Economics
B.A., Economics (with Honors)
Activities & Affiliations
• Institute of Management Accountants, Member in Good Standing
• NACVA, Business Valuation Certification Training
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