Steve Chesnut

Steve Chesnut

CFO

Steve Chesnut is a CFO Consultant at Amplēo who is a proven performer with many years of Retail and Wholesale expertise with three of the top Retailers in the US – Target Stores, The Home Depot, and Overstock.com.

Before joining Amplēo in 2024, Steve worked 14 years as a CFO with four companies in the Salt Lake City area that included publicly traded to private equity owned to privately held in Retail, Third Party Logistics, Sports Parks, and Residential Pest Control.

Steve brings a strong business acumen across various functions including strategy development, finance, investor relations, business analytics, business intelligence, accounting, risk management, FP&A, operations, audit, business development, market development, sales management, and six sigma.

Steve’s demonstrated record of success across all sizes of companies and ownership structures, including Private Equity and founder-owned, within many functional disciplines and across all organizational levels, showcases his adaptability and effectiveness. Steve has actively contributed at the Board and C-level, underlining his strategic leadership and valuable insights that drive organizational excellence.

Fun Facts/Hobbies

  • Hiking – in 2023 he completed a 12-day trip to Africa – climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, visited four African tribes and one-day animal safari
  • Cycling – biked over 2,400 miles in 2023
  • Raises bees, gardens, and fruit trees
  • Family – 10 children and 17 grandchildren

Education/Certificates

  • MBA in Finance and Strategy from Brigham Young University
  • B.S. in Accounting and Business Management from Southern Utah University

Meet the rest of the team

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.

David Mink

President, Marketing

David founded Avalaunch Media in 2012 and built it into one of the fastest-growing marketing agencies in the country: 50 people, 8 figures, clients like Red Bull, GoPro, and Microsoft. After working with hundreds of companies, he kept seeing the same pattern: businesses with a real marketing leader get results. Those without one waste time and money. That's why he built the first fractional CMO, agency-backed solution and why he joined Ampleo.

Dana Calder

Partner, HR

Dana Calder is a strategic HR executive and Partner with more than eight years of experience helping founder-led and private equity-backed organizations build scalable people strategies. She specializes in partnering with SaaS, technology, fintech, and mission-driven companies to strengthen leadership teams, develop practical HR infrastructure, and guide organizations through growth and change. Dana is known for bringing clarity to complex people challenges by combining executive coaching, organizational strategy, and hands-on execution. She is committed to helping leaders make thoughtful decisions that create healthy, high-performing organizations where both people and businesses thrive.

Ryan Purser

Partner, Finance

Ryan Purser has helped companies secure hundreds of millions in debt and equity financing, and specializes in forecasting, financial models, KPIs, and the system upgrades that make them all work. He spent nearly a decade in finance, operations, and eCommerce at Cricut, leading the finance team through a $280M IPO, and has optimized SaaS and hardware-enabled tech companies, run global operations and supply chain, and built BI teams from scratch.

Reagan Berkley

Partner, HR

Reagan Berkley brings 15+ years of HR and People & Culture leadership, most recently as VP of People & Culture at Green Street, where she cut time-to-hire from 87 days to 45 while lifting candidate satisfaction 40%. She specializes in talent acquisition strategy, retention, and leadership development, turning people programs into measurable business results.

 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.