MANUFACTURING
Personal care manufacturer
Investment analysis and transaction support for a personal care manufacturer.
$35M purchase price. Engaged by a private equity firm.
- Leveraged buyout (LBO) model
- Investment committee memo
ACQUISITIONS · FINANCE · AI IMPLEMENTATION
Buy a business.
Run it well.
I’m Drew Hyman. I help buyers evaluate acquisitions and owners improve the businesses they run—through financial leadership, strategy analysis, and hands-on AI implementation. I’m especially interested in long-term engagements with a path to becoming a part-owner.
Discuss your business Selected experienceSelected experience
Experience across manufacturing, hospitality, luxury automotive, and real estate development.
HOSPITALITY
Catering business
Financial modeling and operating systems for a catering business—a portfolio company of a private equity firm.
Work spans acquisition analysis and ongoing post-close implementation.
- LBO and lender models
- Post-close operating model
- AI-enabled CRM
- CEO dashboards
AUTOMOTIVE
Luxury automotive business
Dashboard development and strategic analysis for a luxury automotive business.
- Power BI dashboard development
- New-venture analysis
- Business model assessment and advisory
REAL ESTATE
Real estate developer
Investment strategy and financial modeling for a real estate development firm.
- Contributed to developing an investment thesis at the intersection of AI and real estate
- Rebuilt legacy financial models
WHY STAY INVOLVED
The work should
survive the closing.
A fee tied to closing rewards getting the transaction done. On its own, it doesn’t connect an advisor to how the business performs afterwards.
If the engagement ends at close, a buyer can inherit the spreadsheet while losing access to the assumptions and judgment behind it.
I want to carry that work forward. The underwriting becomes the operating model. The model informs cash planning, reporting, and management decisions. AI implementation then helps change how the work gets done—with the financial plan guiding what to improve and how to measure it.
SERVICES
Ways to work together.
Start with a broad strategy analysis or a specific need. The work can develop into ongoing financial leadership and implementation.
Strategy analysis
A view of the whole business.
For an existing business or a recent acquisition: step back and assess how it makes money, serves customers, and gets work done. I combine financial analysis, conversations with the team, and AI tools to identify opportunities and decide where to start.
- Review strategy, financial performance, operations, and systems
- Identify avoidable costs, missed revenue, and work that can be simplified
- Prioritize improvements by potential impact, speed, cost, and effort
- Build an action plan, starting with the most valuable near-term fixes
Buy-side advisory
For a business you’re considering buying: build and pressure-test the acquisition model, financing cases, and assumptions the operating plan will depend on.
- Acquisition analysis and LBO modeling
- Investment committee materials and decision support
- Lender models and financing scenarios
- A plan to carry the underwriting into operations
Fractional CFO
For a business you own or have just acquired: turn plans into cash forecasts, reporting, and decisions. Where I’ve worked on the acquisition, the underwriting carries directly into the operating model.
- Operating models, budgets, and cash planning
- Actual performance against the operating plan
- Management reporting and decision support
- Lender and investor reporting
AI implementation & systems
For an opportunity you’re ready to act on: redesign the workflow, connect the data, build and test the tools, and help the team adopt them. We track whether the changes are useful in practice.
- Workflow redesign and hands-on implementation
- AI-enabled CRM and customer follow-up
- AI-assisted reporting and document workflows
- Connected data, CEO dashboards, and process automation
- Testing, team adoption, and measurement of time saved and business impact
ABOUT DREW
An early interest in
how businesses work.
I grew up around a family business and saw how much relied on the knowledge and effort of the people running it. I also saw places where the technology lagged behind the business. I was always drawn to figuring out what could work better.
That interest connects my work in finance with building better systems. I believe AI is making the gap between strong and weak execution much wider—and making meaningful improvements possible for businesses that previously lacked the time or resources to pursue them.
About Me / Personal ProjectsFAMILY OFFICE
Operating companies
& real estate.
Family office experience spanning an operating company with $2M+ in EBITDA and a real estate portfolio of $500M+ in assets.
PRIVATE EQUITY
Acquisition work.
Private equity transaction experience involving the acquisition of a vertically integrated manufacturer of cosmetics brands.
AI EVALUATION
Financial models
& business workflows.
Through third-party evaluation providers, I contribute to frontier AI evaluations for leading AI labs, covering financial modeling and how well AI agents perform real-world business tasks. Modeling work spans leveraged buyouts, roll-ups, operating businesses, and real estate acquisitions and development.
LONG-TERM ALIGNMENT
A long-term role.
An ownership stake.
My goal is to become a part-owner in businesses where I can contribute through ongoing fractional CFO work and AI implementation. I’m open to different ownership arrangements that reflect the business, my role, and the contribution I can make.
Where there’s a fit, I’m open to discussing:
The structure and terms would depend on the business, my role, and what we agree together.
Where is your business today?
Tell me what you’re buying or running, where you are in the process, and what’s getting in the way. We can start by working out which improvements deserve attention first.