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About Bernhard Consulting

   
We specialize in assisting start-up to mid-size companies, offering outsourced financial, operations, and general business consulting services. With experience in a wide range of industries, we strengthen our client's management team with an experienced interim, or, outsourced executive.

A company, particularly one that is growing or maturing, can gain access to higher-level financial talent without the associated full-time costs by hiring a temporary Chief Financial Officer. By outsourcing CFO services, a company gains:

A cost-effective solution when the cost of a full-time CFO is not justified
The ability to allocate a portion of budget amounts to executive management talent
The benefits of an experienced executive and affordable prices
The focused efforts of an executive who is not distracted by day-to-day tasks
 
Gene Bernhard
Gene has a broad background in high growth businesses, primarily in CFO high-tech industries. He has served as Corporate Vice President of Norstan, a voice and data communications company, and BasiComputer. He served as Certus International’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and was responsible for providing the capital structure to finance the rapid growth of this start-up anti-virus company. After Certus, he worked as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Applied Technology Ventures, a privately held computer distributor and Master VAR, and was most recently a partner and CFO at Market.al, a Cleveland-based marketing and website development company.