Dan Cloward

Dan Cloward

CFO Consultant

Dan Cloward is a Fractional CFO Consultant at Amplēo, partnering with executive teams to accelerate scalable growth, strengthen financial operations, and create long‑term enterprise value. He is passionate about transforming businesses through strategic financial planning, technology‑driven efficiencies, and turning complex data into clear, actionable insights. Dan excels at aligning financial strategy with organizational objectives, empowering leaders to make confident, informed decisions that drive sustainable growth and resilience.

Dan’s expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, financial modeling, and cost transformation, with deep experience supporting multi‑entity, multi‑location organizations. His industry background spans healthcare, management consulting, accounting services, retail, construction, higher education, and manufacturing.

Prior to joining Amplēo in 2026, Dan spent more than 16 years as a Chief Financial Officer, leading financial transformations and acquisition‑driven growth initiatives. This followed seven years serving as a Fractional CFO, where he provided M&A and turnaround consulting to small businesses and established a strong foundation in strategic advisory work. Throughout his CFO career, Dan led a significant number of successful transactions and oversaw the expansion of operations into a broad network of locations across multiple states, contributing to meaningful revenue growth and improved margins. He built shared‑services platforms that generated multimillion‑dollar annual savings, implemented automation that reduced labor and operating costs by millions, and managed a multimillion‑dollar real estate portfolio that converted rental spend into long‑term asset value. Dan has also served for more than a decade as a board member for the Wendover Airshow and Museum and volunteered on the Utah Microfund credit committee.

Fun Facts/Hobbies

  • Woodworking: Builds custom, high‑end furniture for friends and family
  • Outdoor Adventures: Enjoys exploring Utah’s mountains and deserts on ATVs

Education/Certificates

  • MBA – University of Phoenix
  • BS in Business Administration – Southern Utah University

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

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.

 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.