About Us

Our service includes a comprehensive consultation to help identify gaps and  opportunities, a comprehensive report that includes a project plan with  timelines and milestones, a cost analysis, and a schedule. We also offer  a suite of quality products that will help you get there quickly and  smoothly. That’s how we ensure your success.

We tend to focus on a few carefully scoped projects wherein we are able to deliver clear results that match expectations. Sometimes we will build on those results with a succeeding project that delivers the next step in results, again carefully scoped.

David Barnes - Principal

Once an oil well geologist and a sous chef, David switched to finance and operations in 1988 focused primarily on hi-tech manufacturing. After 22 years with companies from Fortune 100 (Hewlett-Packard & Tandem/Compaq Computers) to seed stage startups, David moved to an underground pipeline construction company, West Valley Construction as CFO. It turned out that construction has more similarities than differences with hi-tech enterprises. The challenges of managing growth, process control, and corporate governance are the same. After helping private equity owned startups through funding and IPO processes and working to drive stock price performance in huge public companies,  West Valley presented a unique challenge as an employee-owned ESOP company.  After 10 years at West Valley, David continues to be an advocate for employee ownership and incentive equity compensation. 

David retired in 2020 from West Valley to take care of family matters and now continues to take on selected consulting projects. He remains active with the Board of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA) and has valued relationships with a variety of consulting talent through that organization.