OPERATIONS × FINANCE × SCIENCE
COO & CFO leadership
for technology companies.
Baruch Pletner brings a PhD, an MBA with an accounting concentration, and hands-on COO/CFO experience to the decisions that connect technology, people and financial performance.
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Leadership at the intersection
of business and technology.
Technology companies need leaders who understand both the product and the business behind it. Scientific uncertainty, engineering schedules, customer commitments and financial constraints influence one another. Effective leadership brings those decisions together.
Baruch’s background spans precision technology, semiconductor equipment, energy projects and professional services. His approach combines detailed technical understanding with operational accountability and financial discipline.
Chief Operating Officer
Build the operating structure that turns strategy into execution.
- Align engineering, delivery and commercial priorities
- Develop teams, responsibilities and management processes
- Recover demanding projects and restore delivery momentum
- Connect operating plans to budgets and business objectives
Chief Financial Officer
Bring financial clarity to the decisions that shape the business.
- Financial planning, budgeting and reporting
- Cash-flow management and financial oversight
- Assess the financial implications of operational decisions
- Connect growth priorities with the resources needed to deliver
Experience behind the approach.
Financial leadership in professional services
Provided COO/CFO leadership to a professional-services business reporting multimillion-dollar cumulative revenue and positive operating and net income for September 2024–September 2026, on a cash basis.
This experience connects financial management with the operational demands of delivering client work.
Complex project leadership
As project director at AKA Energy Systems, Baruch worked to recover the Summerside Sunbank solar and battery-storage project, with a $50 million project budget and more than 100 personnel directed. Construction reached substantial completion before his departure.
Technical depth
Through Intelligent Dynamics Canada, Baruch has worked in sensors, motion control, optical manufacturing and instrumentation. His wider career includes semiconductor engineering and establishing engineering operations in Canada and India.
Discuss the role your company needs.
For founders, boards and leadership teams considering a COO, CFO or combined operating and financial leadership role. Start with your company’s stage, its priorities and the responsibilities you want the role to own.
Based in Canada, with international experience.
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