Troy Harnisch
Fractional Executive, CFO
Troy Harnisch is a finance and operations executive with 25+ years leading strategic growth, financial performance, and operational transformation across agriculture, food, retail, and manufacturing. He has served in CFO and COO roles, combining deep financial expertise with operational leadership to help organizations improve profitability, streamline processes, and drive scalable performance.
Troy's background includes a range of organizations, both big and small, from regional and private to global and public, across all five stages of the business lifecycle. His strong financial expertise serves as the foundation for his leadership in business strategy, operations, pricing, planning, automation, mergers and acquisitions, integration, consolidation, divestiture, process improvement and transformation. Troy's ability to focus on the big picture while maintaining an attention to detail allows him to consistently drive organizational success.
Troy is adept at collaborating with stakeholders to identify opportunities for improvement, build consensus and drive results. His range includes the development and presentation of the global strategy for a $22 billion publicly held agriculture company to executive leadership and the board of directors. He also led the redesign and standardization of pricing processes and model development at a private equity-owned custom development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) in the beauty supply, fragrance, and personal care industry. As CFO and COO, Troy was responsible to drive operational improvement and facilitate efficiencies at the field level. His responsibilities often include AI, automation, accounting, finance, pricing, logistics, supply chain, inventory, strategy and the implementation of best practices. Troy's ability to manage large teams in all areas of the business by collaborating with leaders and coordinating activities is a key to success. His strength lies in connecting financial insight, operational efficiency and technology strategy.
Troy holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Nebraska Wesleyan University. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with family and friends, as well as snowboarding, mountain biking, fly fishing, and traveling.
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