Stravisor®
A Strategic Advisory Practice

Strategic counsel at the intersection of finance, operations, and technology.

CPA-grade financial rigor. C-suite operational execution. Builder-level technical fluency. Brought to bear on the questions that matter most to enterprise leaders — the ones that span the controller’s office, the operating floor, and the boardroom.

Gene Preston, CPA
Principal
01 — The Practice

Built for the questions that span three domains at once.

Most advisory engagements deliver one of three things: a financial analysis, an operational assessment, or a technology recommendation. The questions facing organizational leadership today rarely fit inside one of those boxes.

Margin pressure doesn’t stop at the controller’s desk. Operational reform requires financial modeling and technical execution to land. AI adoption requires governance, infrastructure, and an operating model that can absorb it. The hardest decisions sit at the intersection.

Stravisor exists for the intersection. The work is engaged at the level of strategy, executed at the level of detail, and accountable to the institutions and the people it serves.

02 — Three Disciplines

One practitioner. Three operating fluencies. Brought into the same frame.

Finance

CPA discipline applied to the enterprise’s structural complexity.

Mid-month and full-cycle forecasting. Variance analytics and management reporting. Revenue and margin modeling, capital structure analysis, financing strategy, and cost optimization. The kind of narrative work that holds up to executive committee, audit, and credit rating agency scrutiny.

Operations

A C-suite operator’s view of how the work actually gets done.

Revenue operations redesign. Productivity benchmarking. Expansion, reopening, and capacity strategy. Salary architecture and workforce design. Regulatory compliance built from inside a working operation — not from a consulting deck.

Technology

Builder-level fluency in the tools shaping the next decade.

Power Platform. SharePoint architecture. PostgreSQL. Python. Applied AI for finance and operations. And the governance frameworks that make enterprise AI adoption defensible to boards, auditors, and regulators.

03 — Selected Capabilities

Where the practice is most often called.

Financial Forecasting & Variance Analytics
Reporting infrastructure built to survive executive, audit, and rating-agency scrutiny.
Capital Strategy & Debt Issuance Support
Preparing borrowers for the rating agencies and the markets.
Revenue Operations Diagnostics & Redesign
Billing, leakage, collections performance, and the metrics that move EBITDA.
Growth & Capacity Strategy
Expansion, new-site launch, and capacity planning across locations and service lines.
M&A & Partnership Structuring
Services agreements, management contracts, full acquisitions, and the governance to hold them together.
Regulatory & Policy Strategy
Navigating compliance regimes, price transparency, and translating policy change into financial impact.
Enterprise AI Adoption
Governance, data policy, productivity infrastructure, and executive education frameworks.
Custom Analytics & Automation
SharePoint, Power Automate, dashboards, and bespoke tools built to the finance-operations cadence.
04 — Perspective

A point of view on the decade ahead.

The next decade of enterprise leadership will be defined by leaders who can hold financial discipline, operational reality, and technological possibility in the same frame — and who refuse to let any one of them drown out the other two.
Gene Preston, CPA · Principal
05 — Voice

Where the work has been seen and heard.

Speaker
National finance forums on capital strategy, margin pressure, and the AI-era CFO.
Presenter
Credit rating agency presentations supporting multi-hundred-million-dollar bond issuances.
Counsel
Boards, executive teams, and operating leadership across the enterprise.
Author
A premium AI education curriculum for executives — built for leaders who will define the next operating model, not survive the last one.
06 — Connect

Selected engagements. Direct access.

For senior leadership inquiries, board engagements, and selected advisory mandates — the conversation begins directly.