Jim McClintock is a seasoned business leader with 30 years of executive-level financial, strategic, and operational management experience. Jim has served as CFO for eight businesses — from startups to a $75 million revenue company. As a TechCXO Partner, he brings his clients a balance of both Fortune 50 (Citibank, BellSouth) and entrepreneurial perspectives, including expertise in: M&A, strategic planning, corporate development, CFO services, financial reporting, accounting, internal controls, information technology, risk management, banking, venture capital and private equity.
His career spans multiple industry segments within financial services and information technology, across multiple functional roles. He worked in business development for Citibank’s LBO financing unit, as a partner at North Riverside Ventures, an Atlanta-based venture capital arm of Sam Zell’s Equity Group, and as COO/CFO for an Atlanta-based broker-dealer for independent financial planners.
Jim was a senior corporate development executive at BellSouth, where he led strategy and deal teams for BellSouth’s Broadband Entertainment and Internet groups, including the completion of a $500 million digital cable TV programming partnership. He also led a BellSouth International team in developing strategic plans for its Latin American affiliates to enter the Internet services business in six Latin American countries.
Jim subsequently headed the startup of a broadband communications service provider in Canada (Cypress Communications), served in fractional CFO roles for an information security software company, a telecom billing software company, and an INC 500 digital marketing agency, and served as a Partner at Pace Capital Advisors for eight years, where he provided M&A advisory and exit planning services to the firm’s clients.
Jim is currently a CFO Partner at TechCXO Partners, LLC, an on-demand provider of fractional, part-time, and interim executives, where he serves as a fractional CFO for multiple companies. In addition, he serves as a Trusted Advisor to Pace Capital Advisors.
Jim earned his MBA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BA in Economics at Washington and Lee University. He lives near Canton, GA and has a son and a daughter who reside in Atlanta, GA.