Dave Chidester

Dave Chidester

CFO

Dave Chidester is on Amplēo’s leadership team as CFO. He has expertise in bringing financial visibility and strategic financial decision-making to an organization. This includes financial modeling and projections, management reporting, capital-raising, and transactions (both acquisitions and/or exits). Dave’s experience has primarily been with high-growth companies in a building/start-up environment and has managed both public and private companies.

Dave originally joined Amplēo as a consultant in 2020 and later became Amplēo’s CFO in 2023. Before Amplēo, Dave worked as a public accounting, corporate controller, and CFO / Senior Vice President building, growing, and taking public a $1B+ revenue company, as well as growing a private company from $25M to $100M, which led to a $375M exit to a large public company. During that time, he was involved in raising over $400M of capital through public and private stock and debt offerings, negotiated credit facilities, and managed reporting processes. Dave has also worked for the past ten years as an investor in real estate and venture capital, where he gained broad experience in investing, finance, and deal structures. He is a current investor in various real-estate-related ventures and earlier-stage technology companies. Along with helping clients, Dave currently serves on the advisory board for the Accounting School at the University of Utah, as well as the national advisory board for UVU. He is also a board member at Neuroworx, a non-profit physical therapy clinic that focuses on neurological rehabilitation for individuals with spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, stroke, or other neurological conditions.

Fun Facts/Hobbies

  • Traveling
  • Hiking
  • Golfing
  • Fly-fishing
  • Hunting

Education/Certificates

  • Accounting degree and an MBA from the University of Utah
  • Licensed CPA

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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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.