Business Consultant · Denver, Colorado

A Denver Business Advisor Who's Actually Built One.

Fractional strategic and transaction advisory for Denver-area owners of businesses doing $2M to $20M in revenue. Strategy. Capital. Deal structure. Built by a 30-year operator, not a fractional CFO running a finance playbook.

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Founding executive, Noodles & Company
Former CEO, $50M+ CPG venture
$10M+ capital raised
Denver-based

Why Denver Businesses Need a Strategic and Transaction Advisor — Not Another Fractional CFO

Denver is saturated with fractional CFOs, fractional COOs, and business coaches. The gap in the market is someone who has actually built and sold companies — and who works on the strategy and the transactions that strategy produces. Most fractional finance professionals are not equipped to run a capital raise, structure a multi-entity holding company, or negotiate a deal. That is what I do.

Stage One

You're growing and the playbook ran out

Revenue is up. Decisions are getting harder. The systems that got you to $2M aren't built for $10M. You need someone who has been there — not a consultant who has read about it. Strategy work that anchors on real operating constraints, not slides.

Stage Two

A capital event is on the table

You're considering a raise, an acquisition, a partnership, or a partial exit. The materials need to survive institutional due diligence. The model has to hold up. The deal structure has to protect you. I have been on both sides of these tables — operator raising, and investor doing diligence on operators.

Stage Three

You're a few years from selling

Most owners think they are further along on sale readiness than their documents reflect. Operating agreements stale. Revenue concentration unmodeled. Corporate structure still single-entity. The gap between where you are and where a buyer needs you to be is where I work.

How I Work With Denver Businesses

Five engagement tiers, each scoped before any work starts. Value-based pricing, never hourly.

  • 01

    Growth Diagnostic

    A one-time structured assessment of where your business stands and what comes next. Surfaces the strategic gap, the capital gap, the structural gap. Produces a written report and a recommended next move. Best for owners who know something needs to change but want clarity before committing to an engagement.

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  • 02

    Growth Strategy Retainer

    Fractional Chief Strategy Officer — ongoing monthly advisory and decision support. Standing meetings, real strategic input, written work product. For owners who want operator-level judgment in the room when decisions are being made.

    Retainer structure →
  • 03

    Capital Event Advisory

    End-to-end support for capital raises, acquisitions, joint ventures, and partial exits. Financial modeling that survives institutional review. Pitch decks that close. Regulation D PPMs. Term sheet negotiations. From positioning through close.

    Transaction scope →
  • 04

    Startup Materials Package

    One cohesive fundraising kit — business plan, financial model, pitch deck — built together to tell a single coherent story. For founders raising their first institutional round or preparing for a strategic introduction.

    Materials package →
  • 05

    Vorsant Sprint — Fixed-Price Strategy on Demand

    One specific deliverable, fixed-price, 48-hour turnaround. Business plan, pitch deck, financial model, growth plan, SWOT analysis, online presence audit, hiring plan, scenario analysis, or risk assessment. Starting at $997. No retainer, no scope creep, no thinking required mid-engagement.

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Industries I Know in Denver

Three sectors where my operating experience is deepest. Outside these, I take engagements where the strategic challenge fits the framework — but never pretend expertise I don't have.

Food & Beverage and Restaurants

Denver's restaurant scene — RiNo, LoDo, Cherry Creek, Highland, South Pearl, Stapleton — has grown into one of the country's strongest secondary markets. I was one of four founding executives at Noodles & Company, building it from a single concept to $40M+ in sales. Nineteen years food service consulting after that. Multi-unit expansion, franchise infrastructure, unit economics, and concept-to-chain transitions are where I spend most of my time.

Real Estate & Development

Acquisition modeling, investor presentations, entity structuring for commercial and mixed-use projects. I work with developers and sponsors who need institutional-quality materials — financial models that survive lender scrutiny, pitch decks that close capital raises, corporate structures that protect everyone at the table. Recent work includes commercial NNN, mixed-use redevelopment, and assisted living conversions.

Franchise & Multi-Unit Consumer

Built franchise systems from scratch — FDDs, operations manuals, training programs, unit economics models. President of a franchise company. EVP of another. I know what franchisors need to prove before a licensee writes a check, and I know what multi-unit operators need to protect themselves before signing a development agreement.

About the Advisor

Gianmarco Macchiaroli, Principal of Vorsant Advisory

Gianmarco Macchiaroli

Principal, Vorsant Advisory · Denver, Colorado

Thirty years of direct operating experience across real estate, consumer goods, food & beverage, and private equity. I've built companies from scratch, raised capital, sat in the room when investors wrote checks, and negotiated every kind of deal document. I speak operator and investor language because I've been both.

One of four founding executives at Noodles & Company — building the brand from a single concept to $40M+ in sales, 1,200+ employees, five locations in seven weeks at peak expansion, and a successful equity exit from $0.25 to $31 per share. Former CEO of a $50M+ agricultural CPG venture I built ground-up. Growth strategy advisor to Jack Link's. Serial entrepreneur across restaurant, franchise, and real estate development. Originated the Uber Eats domain (sold to the delivery platform).

I run Vorsant Advisory as a solo practice — no junior associates, no offshore team, no slide-handoff problem. Every engagement is delivered directly by me. That's the entire value proposition: senior operator judgment, applied to your specific situation, without the overhead of a six-figure consulting firm.

Noodles & Co. — Founding Executive $50M+ CPG Venture — CEO & Exit Jack Link's — Strategy Advisor $10M+ Capital Raised 30+ Years Operating Denver, Colorado

Frequently Asked Questions

A fractional CFO manages your books, financial reporting, and cash flow. I do strategic and transaction advisory — growth planning, capital raises, deal structure, M&A support, and corporate architecture. Different role, different scope. Some businesses need both. Most CFOs are not equipped to run a capital raise, structure a multi-entity holding company, or build the financial model and pitch deck for a Regulation D PPM. That's what I do. If your need is bookkeeping and CFO-style finance, I'll tell you and refer you to someone who specializes in it.
No. I'm based in Denver and work with growth-stage businesses across the United States. Denver-area clients get easier in-person collaboration when needed. Out-of-state clients work entirely remotely. Either model produces the same deliverables — strategy documents, financial models, deal structures, capital materials.
Three sectors where my operating experience is deepest: food & beverage and restaurants (founding executive at Noodles & Company, 19 years food service consulting), real estate and development (acquisition modeling, investor materials, entity structuring for commercial and mixed-use), and consumer goods or franchise multi-unit operators. Outside those three, I take engagements where the strategic challenge fits the framework — but I do not pretend expertise I don't have.
Three pricing models. Vorsant Sprint is fixed-price, fixed-deliverable, 48-hour turnaround — starting at $997. Retainers are monthly, value-based, for ongoing advisory relationships. Project fees are flat-rate for defined scopes — a capital raise, an exit prep, a corporate restructuring. I do not bill hourly. Pricing is confirmed in writing before any work begins, with no scope creep.
Yes. I've built and delivered Regulation D PPMs, financial models for institutional investor review, pitch decks for equity raises, debt-financing memos for SBA and conventional lenders, and term sheet negotiations on both sides of the table. Capital event advisory is one of the five service tiers. I work end-to-end — from positioning and modeling through investor materials and due diligence.
Yes. I serve the entire Denver Metro and broader Colorado Front Range — Boulder, Aurora, Centennial, Highlands Ranch, Lakewood, Englewood, Littleton, and the surrounding suburban submarkets. In-person meetings are workable across the metro; most engagements run partly or fully remote.
Vorsant Sprint is built for that. Fixed-price, 48-hour turnaround on a specific deliverable — business plan, pitch deck, financial model, growth plan, SWOT analysis, online presence audit, hiring plan, or scenario analysis. Starting at $997 with tiered pricing by complexity. No retainer, no scope creep. If you upgrade to a full advisory engagement later, that's a separate conversation.
McKinsey and Bain serve enterprise clients with six-to-seven-figure engagements built around junior associate teams executing frameworks. Vorsant is one operator who has actually built and sold companies — applied to a $2M–$20M business at a fraction of the cost and without the deck-handoff problem. You get senior judgment directly, not a slide passed down through three levels of analyst review.

Let's See If We're a Fit.

30-minute conversation. No pitch, no pressure. We'll talk through where your business is, what's on the table, and whether the work I do is what you actually need.

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