David Benson

David Benson

CFO

David (Dave) Benson is a CFO at Amplēo who helps entrepreneurs and CEOs to start, grow, streamline, or restructure their companies.

Dave has experience working in many industries including technology, aerospace, manufacturing, construction, real estate development, sports and entertainment, intellectual property, and smart homes. Since he has worked as a CEO, CFO, and COO, he brings a new definition to business consulting. With his experience, he is able to advise CEOs who typically are “alone at the top” and could use a sounding board with no agenda internal to the company.

Before becoming a consultant at Amplēo in 2017, Dave started his career at Deloitte for 4 plus years. He then served in senior financial and executive positions for the past 27 years including Controller, Director of Finance, CFO, General Manager, COO, President, CEO, and Chairman. His expertise is in creating organizational efficiencies, strong fiscal management, turnarounds, and successful new companies through the identification and exploitation of core competencies. Concurrently he has worked closely with interfaith leaders, community agencies like the United Way and Red Cross, as well as local and national non-profits, to grow platforms for charitable service and built bridges that fostered relationships between unlikely partners to improve the well-being of the poor and disadvantaged.

Fun Facts/Hobbies

  • Off-roading
  • Golfing with his 6 sons

Education/Certificates

  • Business Administration degree with an emphasis in accounting from Cal State Northridge

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.