Interim & Permanent Placement

The CFO’s & Controller’s best friend.

Finance leaders, placed by the person who built the largest network of senior financial executives. One call connects you to three decades of relationships.

Since 1996

Chairman, The Financial Executives Networking Group

Since 1999

Managing Partner, The Financial Executives Consulting Group

25+ years

Senior finance operations in advertising and publishing.

20,000

FENG member nationwide and abroad.

For COmpanies

Need a finance leader – this quarter or for the long haul?

Matt places interim and permanent CFOs and Controllers drawn from a vetted network of senior finance professionals he has known, in many cases, for decades.



  • Interim CFO or Controller to cover a leave, a transition or a transaction
  • Permanent placement for the seat you can’t afford to get wrong
  • A conversation first, to scope the role before anyone is introduced
Talk to Matt about a role

For Finance Executives

Both searching and between searches, you're in good company.

Matt has spent thirty years helping senior finance professionals find their next seat. Start with a conversation about where you are and where you want to go.



  • Search guidance from someone who has seen thousands of them
  • Interim assignments that keep your skills and income moving
  • The FENG network — chapters, special interest groups and peers

How it works

01

Call or write to Matt

A direct conversation — no intake portal — about the role, the company and the timing.

02

Identify a match

Candidates come from relationships, not job boards: people Matt and his colleagues know and can vouch for.

03

Placed and supported

Interim or permanent, Matt stays involved through the start of the engagement.

About Matt

A CFO first.
Then the person CFOs call.

As CFO of Levine, Huntley, Schmidt & Beaver, Matt turned a firm that had mostly broken even into one returning a consistent 20%+ pretax profit within two years, while building the back office for a business growing 25% a year.

In 1996 he took the chair of a 60-member Westport networking group and, among the first to see what the internet could do for it, grew it into The FENG — recognized by The Wall Street Journal and CBS Evening News as the largest network of senior financial professionals in the world.

MBA in Finance, New York University. B.S. in Finance, Indiana University.

1999–present

Managing Partner, The Financial Executives Consulting Group

1996–present

Chairman, The Financial Executives Networking Group

9 years

CFO, Levine, Huntley, Schmidt & Beaver

9 years

Finance, CBS, Inc.

6 years

Finance, The Thomson Corporation

2 years

Retails, B. Altman & Company

"The more you help other people, the more you help yourself."

Matt Bud— a lesson learned on the water, and the reason he answers the phone.