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Tyler Tarr

CFO Consultant

Tyler brings extensive financial and operating experience in a wide array of environments, from early-stage high technology software and hardware companies to large multi-national manufacturing enterprises. In addition to traditional CFO responsibilities, Tyler has deep M&A, equity, and debt financing experience. He actively assists his clients with the development and implementation of operating and financial strategies that drive organizational performance across all functional areas with a view towards maximizing exit value.

Tyler’s experience includes senior financial and operating positions at a variety of companies, with a recent focus on software and SaaS offerings, including:

  • Fractional CFO for AveriSource, a mainframe modernization software company
  • Fractional CFO for Vivantio, a customer service optimization software company
  • Fractional CFO for Prizeout, a venture backed (Series C) AdTech and FinTech software company
  • Fractional CFO for Vetcelerator, a venture backed (Series A) software and services company focused on the veterinarian clinic vertical
  • CFO for Samesurf, a venture backed co-browsing software company
  • CFO/COO/Director for Fitbug, an AIM listed wearables/wellness company
  • CFO for Brilliant Digital Entertainment, a publicly-traded content distribution and peer-to-peer technology company
  • Executive positions at Packard Bell NEC Electronics, Inc., and EMI Music Worldwide.
  • BOD member for InvVax, a novel flu vaccine company started at UCLA

During his career, Tyler has been involved in the analysis, structuring, and negotiation of secured financing transactions aggregating over $1.5 billion and M&A transactions aggregating over $2 billion. Some of Tyler’s most note-worthy transactions were the take-private of InFocus, and the purchase of, and subsequent sale to Acer, of NEC’s European personal computing brand.

Tyler earned his CPA while employed by the leading public accounting firms of Arthur Andersen, LLC and Coopers & Lybrand, LLC.

Tyler worked on our behalf during the acquisition and funding process of Paul Fredrick in 2017, a leading designer and direct-to-consumer men’s apparel company.

Tyler was an integral part of our efforts to complete the acquisition of Paul Fredrick, from providing guidance on the financial model to leading the charge on sourcing an equity sponsor. He was of particular value in identifying the appropriate partner to share in our vision of the future of Paul Fredrick. His ability to source a partner that had flexibility in terms of capital structure allowed for our team to share in a larger share of the upside than we would have had we been forced to utilize a more traditional partner.

Tyler’s personality and working style meshed very well with our own and we enjoyed having the opportunity to work with him. Should a need arise in the future; we’d welcome the chance to work with him again.


David E. Ullman
CFO/COO – Paul Fredrick MenStyle

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