Meet our advisory group members

John Kasian is Senior Vice President of Strategic Operations at Sayva Solutions, a professional services firm that provides fractional CFO, accounting, and HR support, along with consulting and executive recruiting. At Sayva he focuses on growth strategy for the firm’s managed services. He holds a master’s degree in accounting and is a CPA, and before joining Sayva he served as director of operations for an outsourced accounting and finance group.

For owners in the network, John is a practical voice on how finance and back-office operations can scale with a growing company.

Chris Van Den Elzen is with Apotheosis, a Milwaukee-area firm that provides fractional CFO services to businesses that need senior financial leadership without a full-time hire. He has been one of the hosts behind the network’s gatherings.

Chris brings a finance leader’s perspective to the advisory group, helping owners think through cash, planning, and when part-time executive help makes sense.

Ngosong Fonkem is a partner in the Milwaukee office of Amundsen Davis, a Midwest business and litigation law firm, where he works in the firm’s International Trade, Corporate & Securities, and Agribusiness groups. His practice covers international business transactions, tariffs and import compliance, export controls, and geopolitical risk.

He earned a J.D. and an MBA from West Virginia University, an LL.M. in maritime law from Tulane Law School, and undergraduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. He is admitted to practice in Wisconsin and Washington, D.C., and before the U.S. Court of International Trade, and he serves on the Wisconsin District Export Council.

For Wisconsin companies that buy from or sell to other countries, Ngosong helps the network connect day-to-day decisions to the legal rules behind them.

John Huber is a vice president and commercial banking officer at Waukesha State Bank, a community bank headquartered in Waukesha.

In the advisory group, John brings a lender’s view of growth: what a business needs to have in place to finance its next step, and how banking relationships fit alongside legal, accounting, and operational planning.

Mathew Breselow is a co-founder of Blue Sky Business Acquisitions, a business brokerage and M&A advisory firm that helps owners buy and sell companies and plan their exits. He is a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA).

Mathew helps owners in the network think early about transitions, whether that means preparing a company for sale someday or evaluating a business to acquire.

Robert Orozco is an Executive in Residence at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater and an independent advisor on AI strategy and governance.

He gives owners in the network a grounded way to think about artificial intelligence: where it can help a business, where it introduces risk, and how to set sensible rules before adopting new tools.

Rose Mandap represents Hexis Consulting in the advisory group. Hexis Consulting is a West Bend, Wisconsin firm that provides managed IT, cybersecurity, and fractional technology leadership for small and mid-sized businesses.

Through Rose, the network can bring technology and security questions into the same conversation as finance, legal, and operations.

Russell Rapant is president and chief engineer of Arrow Engineered Systems, a Menomonee Falls company that provides contract engineering, design, and system integration, including custom-engineered parts and equipment for industrial processes, manufacturing, and inspection.

Russell brings an engineer’s perspective to the advisory group, which helps owners who make physical products or run equipment-heavy operations work through process and equipment decisions.

Sean Bailey is a shareholder at Vesta, a CPA-led advisory firm with Wisconsin offices that provides accounting, tax, assurance, wealth, and advisory services. He leads Vesta’s North Shore market and its tax planning service line.

Sean helps owners in the network plan ahead on taxes, so that growth, investment, and transition decisions are made with the tax picture in view.