Adam Tzagournis, CPA

Stealth AI Startup

Founder

FlowCog

Business finance simplified. FlowCog Canvas is a free tool to help you understand your company's past and future financial health.

Founder & CEO

Stack Overflow

Financial Analyst (Nov 2014 - Jan 2016)
Financial Manager (Jan 2016 - Nov 2017)

Stack Overflow is the largest, most trusted online developer community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. More than 50 million professional and aspiring programmers visit Stack Overflow each month to help solve coding problems, develop new skills, and find job opportunities.

Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow partners with businesses to help them understand, hire, engage, and enable the world's developers. To learn more about Stack Overflow's business solutions - technical recruiting, advertising, market research, and enterprise knowledge sharing visit stackoverflowbusiness.com.

Director of Finance

Hailo

Hailo is the evolution of the hail - a free smartphone app which puts people just two taps away from a licensed taxi, and lets cabbies get more passengers when they want them.

Senior Accountant/Financial Analyst

Brilliant Transportation

Brilliant is a revolutionary ground transportation firm focused on creating a travel experience that allows executives and companies to maximize their time.

Financial Analyst

PwC is a multinational professional services firm that provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders.

Experienced Associate

• Founder of a new AI stealth startup

• I'm a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and a full-stack software developer

• I built AI financial projections software

• I've worked with companies for over 10 years to help them raise money (and not run out of it)

• I write about business finance, cash runway, modeling, metrics, FP&A, equity ownership, programming, and more.

North Pole Security

North Pole Security is tackling one of the hardest problems in cybersecurity: making proactive endpoint protection usable at scale. Most tools rely on detection and response — reacting after malware is already on the system. Workshop, North Pole’s flagship platform, flips that model by helping companies control what software can run in the first place.

Built by the creators of Santa, Google’s widely-adopted open source allowlisting tool, Workshop turns proven prevention techniques into a scalable, intuitive platform. With automation, smart approvals, and enterprise-ready features, North Pole Security makes it possible for any organization to stay a step ahead of threats.

Fractional Strategic CFO

The Growth-Minded CFO Podcast

Growth-Minded CFO is a podcast that uncovers what the most effective, growth-focused CFOs do differently to drive businesses forward. 

Together with my co-host, Alex Louisy (CEO of Upflow), we interview top finance leaders to learn how they’re breaking out of the traditional mold and leading from the front as strategic partners. We’re exploring how today’s best CFOs are using financial insights to make big decisions, fuel growth, and guide their companies to new heights.

Subscribe to learn what makes these CFOs stand out and how they’re transforming the role into a key engine for business success!

Podcast Host

James Equities LLC

James Equities is a New York City real estate development firm specializing in transitional, permanent supportive, and affordable housing for formerly homeless and low-income New Yorkers. 

Founded in 2023 by Douglas James, previously COO of The New York Center for Urban Community Services, Senior Advisor to the NYC Comissioner of Consumer Affairs, Deputy Comissioner and General Counsel for the NYC Department if Homeless Services, and Researcher for the US Department of Treasury.

Lauren Pearl Consulting

I started LPC as a side-project while founding a different company. But it turns out, help from an ex-CEO with 13+ years training as COO, CFO, and Chief of Staff is something a lot of folks need! Growing this business is now my full-time mission!

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LPC is the solution for when it feels like your startup has gone off the rails.

They say you fake it until you make it as a founder. But for some founders, it might feel like you’re faking it a little too often.

Making mistakes is par for the course when you’re just starting out.

But what happens once you have a staff to pay? Are you willing to bet everything you’ve built on winging it? In this hostile financial environment, the stakes are even higher!

My clients don’t worry about faking anything.

They have an experienced expert on staff who clears blockers, sets a clear path, connects them to the most trusted tech and partners, and ensures everything is set up to scale according to best practices.

Want proof? 

Only 18% of first-time founders succeed. Since LPC's inception, 75% of paying clients have closed funding or become more profitable.

For a stage where most VC firms and accelerators are satisfied with 1/10 startups making it, 8/10 is unprecedented. I was honestly a little shocked to discover this stat...

The numbers speak for themselves: This works.

CFO Advisor, Teacher & Author

NYU Stern School of Business

Lead consultant on the first cohort of the NYU Stern AI Innovation Accelerator Program.

An 8-week program led by NYU Stern School of Business, providing mentorship, tailored consulting, networking opportunities, and other tools to 10 award-winning post-Series A Korean AI startups seeking market entry and/or growth in the United States.

https://www.nyu.edu/research/research-centers-and-institutes/global-ai-frontier-lab/ai-innovation-accelerator-program.html

Lead Consultant

Pearl & Elmore

Is your remote or hybrid team thinking about doing an Offsite this year?

How do you make sure it's: 🚀 The Offsite That Changed Everything 🚀
And not: 😱 The Offsite That Wasted Everyone's Time? 😱

Pearl & Elmore offers tailored offsite programming for businesses that really need their offsite to count. A power team - an Organizational Psychology PhD from Columbia and a Big 4 Consultant and MBA from NYU - has joined forces to build a new playbook for offsites that transform teams. Whether you need to hype people up, work on challenges in team dynamics, co-create a new company strategy, or simply get everyone on the same page, Pearl & Elmore's data-driven techniques are designed to ensure that this will be the best offsite conversation your team's ever had.

DM me or reach out via the Pearl & Elmore website on our company page to learn more!

Co-Founder

Ship Essential

Ship Essential is a low-climate impact logistics startup based in NYC that offers ground-breaking last mile delivery solutions, especially for ecommerce brands. They leverage an advantage in real estate and partnering with urban delivery providers to unlock services other 3PLs cannot: faster delivery, omnichannel capabilities (pop-up stores, pick up, etc), and a premium customer experience. 

I joined Ship Essential as their Fractional CFO, helping them optimize operations, reporting, and pricing. In a market where few retailers are getting ANY investment, I also created their pitch deck, data room, and investor outreach plan, resulting in $1M+ in seed capital.

Roost Homes

Now owned and operated by acquirer, Wake Design & Development.

Roost Home sells innovative and beautiful carbon-neutral prefab homes via a seamless buying experience that saves home-buyers time & risk, creating a healthier home and planet. 

Winner of the 2021 NYU Stern Venture Fellowship

Check out available homes and find your Roost! buildaroost.com/models

CEO & Co-Founder

Trail of Bits

Notorious worldwide in the infosec community, Trail of Bits is the most famous security company that you’ve probably never heard of (hackers hate Linkedin).

Started in 2012 by a group of prestigious hackers, ToB now partners with DARPA, the majority of Big Tech, and many of the other Fortune 100 to solve novel security challenges no others are capable of addressing.

I joined ToB as their first full time non-engineer in 2017 when they were just 10 hackers doing $1M in annual. Over 4 years, I worked alongside the CEO to grow the company into the dominant industry giant they are today.

Director of Strategy & Finance

Head of Strategy & Operations

Deloitte

Based in the Retail Practice, I specialized in tech transformation projects for large apparel retailers.

Senior Consultant in Strategy and Operations

Numbers-Driven Business Strategist & CFO Creating "Aha" Moments for Growing Teams

TESTIMONIALS:
"Lauren has been so amazing to work with. She takes a wonderful approach to consulting where I feel like I have a true partner in the business."
David Sitt, CEO @Ship Essential

"Lauren is superb at what she does. She has the ability to teach and show founders of any type what they need in a way that is easily understood. I would highly recommend Lauren to any startup needing to get a better handle of the company they are building."
Andrew Hendela, Co-Founder @ Karambit.AI

"Lauren’s consulting has acted as a backbone towards creating a sustainable company. The biggest result has been a clear plan towards earning new business—knowing how much outreach needs to be made in order to close deals."
JT. Green, Founder & Executive Producer @moltenheart

MY CREDENTIALS:
13+ years working in startup leadership, 3X startup founder, 2 years with Deloitte strategy, an MBA from NYU, and I’m the resident startup Finance expert at the New York Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship

MY WHY:
I watched my family's 184-year-old small business go bankrupt. 
It remains my most valuable business lesson to date. 
I've been on a mission to save other amazing companies from the same fate ever since.

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