About CMG Financial Solutions

We've sat in the chair. We know what broken looks like from the inside.

CMG Financial Solutions is an outcome-focused strategic advisory firm, working as your fractional CFO and M&A advisor. Behind it is thirty years of running, fixing, and selling owner-led companies, and a simple belief: an owner deserves honest counsel and a partner who stays until the outcome is real.

Why CMG exists

Accounting and financial services with a purpose.

Smaller businesses face issues as complex as large companies, but rarely have the processes and tools to identify and address them. CMG was built to close that gap. We help leadership understand the financials and the financial impact of the decisions they are making, and we build the foundation that lets the business manage operations, working capital, costs, and capital investment with clarity.

We work with owner-led companies doing $5M to $100M in construction, manufacturing, distribution, trades, and landscape. The symptoms surface in the financials. The real issues usually live somewhere else. Our job is to find the cause, value it, prioritize it, and fix it.

We go deep, not broad. We execute, not just advise. We stay engaged until the outcomes are realized.

The principal

Meet Don King.

Don King, CPA, CMA

Partner & CEO

donking@cmgfinancialsolutions.net

30+

years as CFO & CEO

$350M+

in M&A enterprise value

CPA · CMA

Certified Exit Advisor

Don is a transformational CFO with over 30 years of experience driving operational excellence and measurable value creation across public and private companies. He specializes in establishing scalable financial infrastructure that enables strategic growth, improves profitability by 15-25%, and creates substantial shareholder value.

Don's expertise spans distressed company turnarounds, M&A execution, and building world-class finance organizations that support both organic expansion and acquisition strategies across manufacturing, construction, and service industries. His proven track record includes negotiating multi-million dollar credit facilities while reducing borrowing costs, leading M&A transactions totaling $350M+ in enterprise value, and implementing operational improvements that have generated 25%+ EBITDA margin improvements.

Don consistently delivers results that matter: reducing working capital requirements by $3M+ through cash conversion cycle optimization, cutting workforce costs by 16% while improving gross margins, increasing new business margins by over 20% through strategic pricing models, and reducing operational risks by 44% while cutting insurance premiums by 31%.

Whether partnering with early-stage companies, underperforming businesses, or growth-oriented organizations, Don creates professional environments where owners receive the strategic financial leadership and actionable insights needed to successfully scale their operations and maximize enterprise value.

Operations Partner

Meet Jim Edmondson.

Jim Edmondson

Operations Partner

jimedmondson@cmgfinancialsolutions.net

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CMG 360™
Certified Advisor

30+

years in operations

2 exits

from the operating seat

COO

fractional or interim

Jim Edmondson is a seasoned operations executive with more than 30 years of experience helping private company founders and CEOs build the infrastructure that lets their businesses grow without breaking. As Operations Partner at CMG Financial Solutions™, he extends the firm's capabilities into the operational domains that drive or constrain enterprise value, including organizational design, planning, systems, and process execution.

Jim has been through two exits from the operating seat: Medical Doctor Associates, acquired by Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ: CCRN) for $200 million, and Sy.Med Development, a management buyout and sale for $7 million. He has been on both sides of M&A, including the UHC/MetraHealth integration, the largest healthcare transaction in U.S. history at the time. That depth of experience, spanning the operating room, the boardroom, and the deal table, gives his clients a rare combination of operational perspective and execution discipline.

Jim works as a fractional or interim COO, depending on what the situation calls for, and stays engaged until the outcome is realized. His industry experience spans healthcare, staffing, benefits, managed care, and insurance, industries where the operational complexity runs deep and the margin for execution error runs thin.

As a CMG 360™ Certified Advisor, Jim uses the CMG 360™ Assessment to identify where a business stands across seven operational domains through COMPASS™ and how it is positioned in its market through BEACON™. When the assessment surfaces gaps in organizational design, planning, or systems, Jim steps in to close them. The diagnostic finds it. Jim fixes it.

How we work

Four principles we don't bend on.

Honest counsel

We tell owners the truth, even when it is hard to hear. Agreeable voices are easy to find. Honest counsel is the whole job.

Deep, not broad

We go deep on the issues that actually move the business instead of spreading thin across everything at once.

Execute, not just advise

We do the work, not just write the recommendation and hand it back. The deliverable is a better business.

Stay until it's real

We stay engaged until the outcome is realized and you can measure it. The score is never the point.

The book

Finding True North™

Don distilled three decades of hard-won lessons into a guide for owners navigating complex decisions with limited information. It is the thinking behind COMPASS™ and the CMG 360™ Assessment, written for the person in the chair.

100% of the proceeds go to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

Finding
True North

Don King