Wayne Graffis

Wayne Graffis

Turnaround Advisor

Wayne Graffis is an Insolvency and Restructuring Consultant at Amplēo who provides turnaround and financial restructuring services to Ampleo clients. Assisting businesses who are experiencing financial stress. Wayne is a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor, CIRA with a successful banking background. His experience is in agribusiness, cooperatives, production agriculture, and rural utilities. Wayne’s strengths include cash flow and profitability analysis; negotiating skills; relationship management; and knowledge of banking procedures and processes.

Before joining Amplēo in 2024, Wayne worked 5 years as a Lead Special Assets Officer for CoBank, ACB. At CoBank, Wayne was the lead on numerous syndicated facilities that included a publicly traded milk processor, a major power supply cooperative, and a large cheese processor in the upper Midwest. At Rabo Agrifinance, his portfolio included production and processing loans. Two-thirds of the loan decisions required prior approval of the main Rabobank in Utrecht, Netherlands, because of the size and complexity. Wayne has extensive experience in restructuring, workout, liquidation, and bankruptcy chapters 7, 11, 12, and 13. Wayne performed a key role in a failed bank Receivership in Greeley, Colorado, because of his knowledge of agricultural finance and experience with stressed credits, including foreclosure and bankruptcy. At United AgriProducts, Inc., a publicly traded international input supply company, Wayne was head of a Special Assets Team consisting of five remotely located officers covering the US and Canada. Wayne has owned and managed a company providing consulting services to production and further processing customers of commercial banks and Farm Credit Associations.

Fun Facts/Hobbies

  • Road bicycling enthusiast, participating in several organized rides each year
  • Enjoys gardening
  • Spending time with his grandchildren

Education/Certificates

  • Bachelor of Science Degree from Colorado State University in Vocational Agricultural Education
  • Appointed to two terms as a member of Colorado’s “Governor’s Small Business Council” and served as co-chairman during two Governor’s administrations

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.

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 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.