Since 2008, the ETONIEN family of companies has experienced organic growth driven by astute market insights, enabling our four specialized entities to expand our offerings to private equity firms and their portfolio companies. By recognizing emerging opportunities in the marketplace and leveraging our expertise, we now provide comprehensive solutions in highly specialized project and interim C-suite leadership, HR and payroll management, strategic sourcing, and financial restructuring, empowering our clients to achieve their business objectives effectively.
our story
ETONIEN family of brands
Timeline
ETONIEN | 2008
Practice areas: Finance & Accounting
Founded to support the office of the CFO with project and interim CFO, Controller and FP&A services. Focused on servicing PE backed, middle market companies ($100M – $1B) requiring immediate, high level support. ETONIEN carved out a niche for their services within the PE landscape by offering high-touch service and delivering results in high-stakes, complex situations and always operating with a sense of urgency.
Value Proposition: ETONIEN is a high-value partner because of our ability to:
- Offer clients experienced leadership
- Deliver actionable results quickly
- Deliver Big 4 talent with better results and lower costs
ETONIEN’s experience grew to include work for 150 + PE firms across the country and after 8 years there was a clear need with clients to also support finance operations related to HR and Supply Chain and Procurement.
ETONIEN | 2019
Practice areas: Finance & Accounting | HR
ETONIEN developed enhanceHCM as a business unit to address HR, Payroll and HRIS related needs experienced by the same group of middle market PE backed companies through M&A transactions and divestitures and systems implementations.
Practice areas: Finance & Accounting | HR | Supply Chain
The market demand for lean-based supply chain consulting services for clients operating in complex business environments was clear. Seeing that effective (or ineffective) supply chain decisions often have financial implications, and vice versa. ETONIEN’s core service offering rolling up to the CFO had natural synergies with supply chain management and launched Crosby Row as a platform to offer this service to clients.
ETONIEN | 2024
Practice areas: C-Suite | HR | Supply Chain | Restructuring
After 15 years servicing the PE market through M&A and various special situations, ETONIEN recognized a gap in the marketplace for financial crisis management in complex situations through times of distress. ETONIEN collaborated with experts to create Pivot > in order to provide fast access to lean teams supporting the needs of investors and stakeholders through times of distress. Cost effective, agile solutions are uncommon in the restructuring industry making this service offering highly sought after in the marketplace.
ETONIEN | Today
Practice areas: Finance | HR | Supply Chain | Restructuring
Teams have been built around 4 industry experts running each of the 4 service platforms, supporting a broader range of client needs, and enhancing ETONIEN’s overall value proposition and competitiveness in the marketplace. Integrating these consultative functions within the ETONIEN family of brands, ETONIEN clients benefit from cross-functional collaboration and communication resulting in more strategic strategies for optimizing company performance and realizing real value.
Value proposition:
- True expert support – Each group is led by a true industry and functional expert with a team to match
- Boutique / high touch / white glove service levels
- Impeccable SLAs – We move to actionable results in days not weeks and months
- Cost effectiveness / high value delivery – Big 4 talent with better results and lower costs = high value
Expert Leadership
Each of our service platforms is led by a true industry and functional expert supported by an equally experienced, professional team to deliver client success.
Chris Tucker
enhanceHCM
Building from his 15 years as a senior Sales & Marketing leader for ADP, Chris now leads enhanceHCM’s client-centric approach to successful HRIS project management and highly-effective HR and Payroll consulting engagements.
Lance Miller
Pivot
Following his successful tenure learning the ropes as a Bankruptcy law clerk, building his Restructuring skillset working for nationally recognized law firms, and then moving to the client side as in-house counsel for American Apparel and Sugarfina, Lance leads Pivot with a client-first approach by providing exactly with the client needs in terms of expert resources and exemplary execution of sound, experience-based Restructuring strategies.
Chuck Emery
Crosby Row
After 17 years of helping Toyota improve its global supply chain for Parts & Service, he has been leading a group of similarly experienced senior Lean practitioners for nearly 20 years helping clients of all sizes and industries improve their Supply Chain performance via the rapid implementation of Lean methodologies.
Karl Pearson
ETONIEN
Utilizing his multi-functional and multi-industrial experience as a CFO, COO, and CEO for various Industrial, Consumer Products, e-Commerce, and Service businesses along with serving as an Operating Partner for a Private Equity fund and 15 years as a partner in two Turnaround and Restructuring firms helping over 40 clients navigate challenging situations, Karl helps ETONIEN deliver a perfect match between the client’s immediate needs and the action-ready C-suite executive or resource team to ensure the best possible outcome as rapidly as possible.