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Darsh Dahya
CFO | Strategic Operator | Financial & Operational Leadership

​​CFO and strategic operator helping companies scale with financial discipline, operational clarity, and aligned leadership.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

• CFO – GT’s Living Foods, largest kombucha company in the U.S.
• CAO – Greenlane Holdings (Public Company)
• Senior VP Finance – MedMen (Public Company)
• Corporate Controller – MusclePharm (Public Company)
• Co-founded and launched Resonance, a DTC jewelry brand

Challenges I Help Solve
• Rapid growth without financial structure
• Limited financial visibility
• Margin pressure or rising costs
• Complex supply chains or co-manufacturing
• Preparing for capital raises or transactions
• Scaling finance teams and reporting systems

Services

Strong companies are rarely built by one person alone. They are built by teams that operate with clarity, accountability, and aligned execution.
 

Throughout my career in senior finance and operating roles, I have consistently focused on helping leadership teams move from reactive decision-making to structured, forward-looking execution.
 

This means building the financial visibility, operational discipline, and leadership cadence that allow organizations to scale with confidence.

My work focuses on creating clarity around performance, strengthening financial infrastructure, and ensuring leadership teams have the information needed to make better decisions.

Office Furniture

Strategic Financial
Leadership

Helping companies build strong financial foundations that support long-term growth and disciplined decision-making.

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Services include:

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  • Financial strategy and planning

  • Budgeting, forecasting, and KPI development

  • Cash flow and capital management

  • Board and investor reporting

  • Margin improvement and cost structure optimization

Stones of Meaning

Operational Execution
& Organizational Alignment

Beyond finance, I work closely with leadership teams to ensure financial strategy is fully aligned with operational execution.

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This includes:

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  • Building cross-functional operating cadence

  • Designing KPI frameworks and reporting infrastructure

  • Aligning finance, operations, and leadership teams

  • Supporting supply chain and co-manufacturing oversight

  • Improving visibility across the organization

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Strategic Projects
& Complex Initiatives

Supporting companies through high-impact business events and transformation initiatives.

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Examples include:

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  • Mergers and acquisitions

  • Capital raising and debt structuring

  • Financial restructuring and turnaround situations

  • Major capital expenditure projects

  • Scaling finance and operational teams

LEADERSHIP   |   ADVISORY   |   CONSULTING

Companies often reach moments where experienced financial and operational leadership is required to navigate complexity, scale responsibly, or guide major decisions.
 

In these situations, I work directly with founders, CEOs, and leadership teams to bring clarity to performance, strengthen financial infrastructure, and help translate strategy into execution.
 

Engagements may include:

  • Interim or fractional CFO leadership

  • Strategic financial advisory

  • Operational and financial transformation initiatives

  • Capital planning and investor readiness

  • Executive partnership during periods of rapid growth or change

 

My approach is highly collaborative and grounded in real operating experience, combining financial discipline with practical execution across finance, operations, and leadership teams.

LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHY

Throughout my career, one theme has consistently shaped the way I lead and work with organizations: businesses perform best when leadership teams operate in alignment.
 

Too often, companies struggle not because of a lack of talent, but because of fragmented communication, unclear priorities, or disconnected decision-making across teams.
 

I believe strong organizations are built through collaborative leadership, where finance, operations, and executive teams work together with transparency, accountability, and shared understanding.
 

This philosophy is at the core of what I call Social Leadership: creating environments where information flows freely, teams operate with clarity, and leaders make decisions grounded in both data and trust.
 

In practice, this means building systems, processes, and relationships that allow organizations to operate with confidence, even in complex or rapidly changing environments.

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