Florian has been involved as an interim Chief Financial Officer and is often the Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO) for struggling companies over the past twenty years within Newhouse Partners Inc. The areas of consulting are: steps in as the interim or part-time CFO, CRO perform the restructuring of troubled entities, and as a director on boards and advisory boards.
His’s financial expertise has been built over 35 years as a financial officer, external auditor, internal auditor, group controller, treasurer, CFO, interim CFO and CRO.
Mr. Meyer currently specializes in financial corporate change management with specific experience in corporate leadership, finance, controllership and treasury functions. He is sought out by mid-sized companies for his insightful identification of recovery opportunities and his pragmatic approach in leading corporate change and turnarounds.
Florian’s uses his years of experience to develop unique solutions to allow businesses to grow and move forward. For example we use restructuring as a funding method. We pair down the liabilities but work hard to collect all of the outstanding Receivables. In another case we worked with the staff to collect all of the Receivables which eliminated the need for new funding and allowed us to pay off one of the partners. Have also worked with a number of different funding institutions.
Prior to this, he worked for Engineering Interface Limited (Ameresco Canada Inc.) Nabisco Brands Ltd, RJR-MacDonald Inc., Bow Valley Energy Inc. (Talisman Energy Inc. now Repsol Oil & Gas Canada Inc.), Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank of Canada and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Florian is a Chartered Professional Accountant as a member of Ontario. He earned his Master of Business Administration (Finance Major) from Concordia University and a Bachelor in Arts (Economics Major) from Sir George Williams University. Florian is on the Board as its Past Chair of the Southern Golden Horseshoe Chapter of Financial Executives International Canada (FEIC – CFO’s of North America) and is a member of Chapter’s Membership Committee. He was on the Board as Treasurer/Chair of Finance and Risk Committee of The Oakville Community Foundation (the ten largest & one of the youngest community foundations in Canada) and is the Past-Chair of Council and Chair of Trustees at Glen Abbey United Church.
Reach out to Florian | fmeyer@newhousepartners.com | (416) 873-8684