About
Hey! I'm Tristan Kemitzis, and in the summer of 2023, I decided to become a strategic finance partner for early-stage companies. Why? I believe in data-driven decisions 📊, and my experience running FP&A at Eataly has shown me the power of using dynamic, scenario-based modeling frameworks to accelerate decision-making based on objective, iterative, and data-grounded approaches. Every hour you optimize gives you an advantage over your competitors to strategize, execute, and build. And with shifting tides in the fundraising climate, financial prudence and clarity is fundamental for survival.
Some Context on Me
I'm a first-generation San Francisco native with a Spanish background, and am fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian (albeit broken 🤌🏻). I graduated from UCLA with honors in Business Economics and Entrepreneurship, and spent the next 5 years at Eataly where I combined my love for food and business. After time in NYC & LA, I began to drive the growth and profitability strategy for the company’s highest-grossing region in North America (West Coast), pioneered a successful new mold for our in-store finance team structures, and templatized a scalable financial framework for new store openings, ultimately leading to an offer to formalize a corporate strategic finance team for the company's development arm. These successes and more culminated in the company’s PE acquisition towards the end of 2022, priming Eataly for further comprehensive global growth.
UCLA
Honors, Business Economics & Entrepreneurship
Eataly
Jr. Analyst | NYC
Analyst | NYC
Regional Analyst | LA & Vegas
FP&A Manager | West Coast
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Founder
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Continued growth at Eataly was tempting, but I was looking for a new challenge and had the risk appetite to take a shot on goal. So, in May 2023 I started my own independent strategic finance consulting. Time and time again I see companies sitting on a wealth of data that lays idle - I wake up excited to build tools that harvest impact from this data, that turn this data into decisions. The fundraising climate is an immense challenge for the foreseeable future, but building a financial backbone to weather the storm doesn't have to be. Whatever industry you may be in, let’s find ways to build together 🤝.