Strong financial leadership is the foundation of every successful business.

Maxim Zobov & Associates pairs each client with a dedicated CFO who knows their business deeply and stays focused on it — rather than splitting attention across a long roster of accounts.

From scaling operations to preparing for a raise or an exit, we embed alongside leadership to build the financial structure, visibility, and discipline that turn ambition into measurable results.

Why we exist

Maxim Zobov has spent his career in the finance chair — CFO, VP Finance, Controller, Director of FP&A — inside private equity portfolio companies, venture-backed investments, family office holdings, and owner-operated businesses. He has scaled companies from $2M to $150M in revenue, led teams from 20 employees to 1,500, and managed businesses across North America, Europe, and the Middle East — operating daily in multiple languages and bringing a global lens to every business he leads. From that seat, he kept watching the same quiet failure repeat itself.

A growing company would reach the moment it needed real financial leadership — and the market would offer it a fraction of one. A fractional CFO with ten clients. An interim executive already halfway out the door. A consultant who produced a deck and disappeared. Each of them capable; none of them present. And presence, it turns out, is where the value is. The costly mistakes — the mispriced contract, the cash crunch nobody modeled, the deal that fell apart in diligence — almost never come from a lack of intelligence. They come from a lack of context: the thing you can only build by living inside one business, not visiting twelve.

Maxim Zobov & Associates was founded on a simple refusal: to sell attention by the slice. Every client gets a dedicated CFO and a team behind them — deliberately overseeing a limited number of engagements — learning each business inside out and staying through what comes next, whether that's a second location, a raise, a turnaround, or the exit. It's a harder model to scale. It's the only one we'd trust with a business we cared about. So it's the only one we run.