Christopher Vareika

Christopher Vareika

CFO

Christopher Vareika is a Fractional CFO at Amplēo, leveraging his 10 years of finance experience in both Fortune 500 companies and the venture world to assist small and midsize businesses with a wide range of transaction and corporate finance matters.

Before joining Amplēo in 2024, Christopher spent over 7 years at Ernst & Young in their Transaction Advisory Services department, working across both Europe and the United States. As part of the Transaction Diligence Team, he engaged in numerous projects, delivering Valuation, Business Modeling, and Financial Due Diligence services to a diverse array of clients and industries, including Consumer Goods, Life Sciences, Financial Services, Technology, Real Estate, and Infrastructure.

In 2022, Christopher transitioned to the venture world, assuming the role of US Regional CFO for an ultrafast grocery delivery startup. In this position, he was responsible for all financial matters and successfully hired, managed, and led a finance team that handled FP&A, Reporting, Accounting, Tax, and Payroll efforts. He worked closely with the local General Manager, providing daily support on strategic decisions that significantly impacted revenue growth and profitability.

During his time in the startup environment, Christopher recognized the gap between the financial knowledge and support needs of small businesses and the resources available to address those needs. This realization led him to become a fractional CFO in 2024, leveraging his extensive corporate finance experience to assist companies seeking flexible, insightful, and impactful finance solutions.

When he’s not focused on finance matters, Christopher enjoys spending time with family and friends and training for his next running challenge!

Fun Facts/Hobbies

  • Former semi-professional Track & Field athlete
  • Finished in the top 10% in his first-ever marathon participation (NYC Marathon)

Education/Certificates

  • Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) at Columbia Business School (US)
  • Master’s in Business Engineering at Louvain School of Management (BE)
  • Bachelor in Business Engineering at Saint-Louis University (BE)

Meet the rest of the team

Kyle Shurtz

Fractional CMO

Kyle is a marketing strategist with more than 10 years driving revenue-focused campaigns. He has overseen substantial marketing budgets and translated them into billions in client revenue, with a particular focus on video-based content strategy.

Mike Riley

Fractional CMO.

Mike has more than 14 years in digital marketing and has held fractional CMO roles across multiple companies, bringing proven leadership and the strategic judgment to align marketing efforts behind a single growth plan.

Julia Olson

Fractional CMO

Julia has 18 years across digital marketing, event management, public relations, and marketing leadership, and has driven results for dozens of brands. She is at her best building campaigns from a blank page.

Beau Graves

Fractional CMO

Beau brings two decades of marketing expertise and leads integrated campaigns for top brands, driving results through organic search, creative content, and demand generation. Known around here as the SEO Cowboy, for reasons involving both search algorithms and Western heritage.

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Ryan Hutchins

President, Valuation

Ryan founded Peak Business Valuation, a national firm that delivers 1,100+ business valuations and 150+ equipment appraisals a year. He works with business owners who are buying, selling, or growing — and need to know what they actually have. His focus is quality, accuracy, and making sure the number means something.

Jason Parr

President, Sales Tax

Jason has spent 30 years going deeper into one discipline while most firms go broader. He joined Peisner Johnson in 1996 and built his career there learning every service line, working through every kind of situation, and eventually becoming President and CEO. The Sales Tax People has completed 35,000+ projects for companies ranging from regional mid-market businesses to large multinationals. His clients are CFOs, controllers, and the accountants who serve them, usually calling when the exposure has already been building quietly for months. He'd rather you call before that point.

 Let's Build It

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We've Got the Fractional

Team to Build It.

A fractional CFO who knows your numbers. A fractional CMO driving your pipeline. An HR leader building your people systems. Sales tax specialists keeping you compliant. Valuation experts ready when you need them. All embedded. All executing. All backed by Ampleo Intelligence, our AI platform.

 Let's Build It

You've Got the Vision. 


We've Got the Fractional

Team to Build It.

A fractional CFO who knows your numbers. A fractional CMO driving your pipeline. An HR leader building your people systems. Sales tax specialists keeping you compliant. Valuation experts ready when you need them. All embedded. All executing. All backed by Ampleo Intelligence, our AI platform.

 Let's Build It

You've Got the Vision. 


We've Got the Fractional

Team to Build It.

A fractional CFO who knows your numbers. A fractional CMO driving your pipeline. An HR leader building your people systems. Sales tax specialists keeping you compliant. Valuation experts ready when you need them. All embedded. All executing. All backed by Ampleo Intelligence, our AI platform.

 Let's Build It

You've Got the Vision. 


We've Got the Fractional

Team to Build It.

A fractional CFO who knows your numbers. A fractional CMO driving your pipeline. An HR leader building your people systems. Sales tax specialists keeping you compliant. Valuation experts ready when you need them. All embedded. All executing. All backed by Ampleo Intelligence, our AI platform.