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

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.