Cushnoc was formed to address a recurring challenge around ownership transitions: companies preparing for or entering institutional ownership frequently need more accounting-infrastructure execution than their existing teams, sponsor resources, or incoming finance leadership can reasonably absorb.
We combine Chief Accounting Officer-level technical expertise with a repeatable implementation playbook to establish the reporting, processes, controls, and data foundation required under institutional ownership.
Our objective is to build a reliable, scalable finance organization that positions permanent finance leadership for success — not create dependency on Cushnoc.
The Cushnoc Group specializes in working with dynamic companies whose growth prospects sometimes outrun their existing capital base.In select cases, and only when invited to do so by the existing shareholders and management, Cushnoc may utilize proprietary resources to fund a portion of our clients capital requirements pari passu with the other investors.
Mr. Flagg is a CPA (inactive status) with over 20 years of experience in public accounting and CAO-level financial leadership for both publicly-traded and privately-held businesses. He spent four years with the national accounting firm BDO Seidman, LLP and subsequently joined Rentech, Inc. and served as its Corporate Controller and later CFO. He is experienced in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, SEC reporting, treasury functions, finance, M&A and ERP implementations. Most recently, Mr. Flagg has led finance-infrastructure build-outs for multiple private equity and venture capital backed companies in various manufacturing and technology segments. His key responsibilities include finance, accounting, human resources, information technology and risk management for these firms. Geoffrey holds his undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Colorado at Denver and is a member of the AICPA and Ohio Society of CPA’s.
Mr. Persky is a financial executive with significant experience developing private and public middle market growth companies, and brings a sponsor and transaction perspective to Cushnoc’s finance-infrastructure engagements. In this capacity, Mr. Persky has served as CFO, director of strategy and planning, board member, investor and consultant for several private and public companies. Mr. Persky has transacted over $500 million in acquisitions, corporate growth capital financings and divestitures. He has led various aspects of corporate and strategic development activities including joint ventures, technology licensing and mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, Mr. Persky has worked as a principal investor involved in all aspects of deal sourcing, acquisition, strategic plan development, management recruiting, and capital markets structuring and execution. Mr. Persky currently sits on several private company boards of directors and makes angel investments in early stage companies. He received an AB from the University of Chicago.
We specialize in building finance infrastructure for the portfolio companies of institutional investors and search funds —
implementing the processes, data, reporting, and controls behind fully auditable, GAAP-compliant financial reporting for professional management teams and Boards of Directors.