Elevating Small Business
Beyond Numbers!
We specialize in small business leadership and personalized financial programs
WHERE PEOPLE, NUMBERS AND TECHNOLOGY MEET
Our Why
We believe that businesses of all sizes deserve access to strong, financial leadership throughout their entrepreneurial journey.
Our How
Growth Beyond Numbers
A Holistic Approach to Financial Leadership
Finance
Provide financial clarity and control, ensuring that your numbers tell the right story. From cashflow management to profitability analysis, we help you make informed decisions with confidence.
Strategy
We align your financial operations with strategic objectives, helping you scale efficiently and navigate critical business phases, whether it's growth, restructuring or acquisition.
Leadership
As a part-time CFO with a full-time commitment, we provide the financial leadership needed to guide the team, improve decision-making, and ensure sustainable success.
Technology
We implement tools to support efficient operations and true scaling of your business. From basic digitization, automations to AI, leveraging technology keeps all focused on what matters most.
Our Team
Drawing on decades of small business finance, leadership and operations – we guide you in start-up, scaling and exit.
Derek Picard
Strategic Advisor and Coach
Partner
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Derek is a professional business and leadership coach, advisor and consultant. He brings a passion for helping business owners, leaders and their teams define, measure and reach success. Over 20-years he supported everyday business owners via work in consulting, public policy, advocacy, advisory and mentorship. An entrepreneur himself, he is co-founder of PowerBooks, a digital and people driven platform that facilitates client service in small business accounting.
A founding partner of aha! Fractional, one of Derek’s secret pleasures remains to this day financial modelling.
Gonzalo Coloma
Fractional CFO
Partner
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Gonzalo Coloma is a master of balance—both on stage and in the boardroom. An engineer who once captivated global audiences with Cirque du Soleil, he now brings that same poise, precision, and adaptability to the business world. As a Fractional CFO, Gonzalo is a strategic thinker, trusted advisor, and truth leader, known for his ability to see the big picture and connect the dots across disciplines. With a keen ear for listening and a talent for distilling complexity into clear, actionable insights, he helps businesses navigate high-stakes challenges, optimize financial performance, and orchestrate sustainable growth with confidence and clarity.
Originally from Peru, Gonzalo travelled the world in his work and has called Montreal home for nearly 20 years. He is a founding partner of aha! Fractional.
Jacky Wong
Reporting Director
Partner
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Jacky brings over 15 years of experience in accounting, financial planning and bookkeeping.
He helps small business owners and start-ups stay focused on what they do best as well as get the most from their numbers. He achieves success for clients by applying consistency, simplicity and a “human” approach to bookkeeping. Jacky is co-founder of PowerBooks, a digital and people driven platform that facilitates client service in small business accounting.
Jacky graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts and is a certified Quickbooks Advance ProAdvisor.
A founding partner of aha! Fractional, Jacky’s passions are sports and family.
Bill Parsons
Senior Advisor and Coach
Mr. Chairman
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Founder
IT MSP (Canada/USA)