Driving Growth with Financial Expertise.

With over 20 years of experience, Carlo Woods is a CFO and operator known for guiding high-growth companies through scale, complexity, and transformation. From energy and climate tech to marketplaces and manufacturing, Carlo partners with CEOs and boards to identify core value drivers, streamline operations, and architect capital strategies that unlock growth. He brings deep financial rigor, real-world execution, and a proven track record across seed, scale, and IPO stage companies.

Trusted By

Goldman Sachs
Equilibrium Energy
SolarCity
Bosch
AMS
Modsy
Postmates
Elevate Leadership
Academia
Camion
Cruz Foam

My Approach

I work hands-on with clients to craft tailored solutions aligned with their business goals and growth stage. Whether it’s upgrading finance and accounting operations, managing legal, HR, and IT functions, or designing a capital structure for scale, I help teams operate more efficiently and think more strategically.

I also offer access to a trusted network of subject-matter experts across finance, law, talent, and more. Because I have no financial stake in these referrals, my guidance remains unbiased, objective, and always in service of your company’s best interest.

  • “Carlo is the rare CFO who combines deep financial rigor with strategic vision and operational agility. He doesn’t just manage the numbers, he helps shape the business. I’ve worked with him across multiple companies, and he’s consistently been the sharpest mind in the room, the most prepared, and the most trusted.”

    Toby Corey
    CRO SolarCity
    Independent Director AMS
    COO Cruz Foam

  • “Carlo’s breadth of experience from seed stage to public company makes him an invaluable resource to startups of all sizes. At Postmates, he built out the Finance and Accounting functions from the ground up with an eye toward IPO preparation during a time of rapid growth. He laid the foundation for the team to later submit its S-1 before being acquired by Uber.”

    Rob Rieders
    GC Postmates

  • “Carlo joined Modsy at a transitional moment, as we came out of the pandemic and entered a period with heightened focus on profit while simultaneously driving growth. He was an instant and trusted thought partner who worked tirelessly to help drive the business. Despite being new to ecommerce, he brought critical thinking and a deep understanding of marketplace dynamics out of the gates. His innovative and thoughtful analysis of the business helped drive initiatives that were both near term executable and delivered meaningful impact. With a continuous focus on our metrics, he helped deliver higher conversion rates, larger average order values, a better customer experience, more engaged and better compensated service providers, and higher margins.”

    Shanna Tellerman
    CEO of Modsy

  • "Carlo and I worked together during SolarCity's formative years introducing a new business model in a rapidly growing market. The capital-intensive business required a unique and first of a kind financing approach to fuel the accelerating growth. He successfully integrated the data and numbers across the organization working with sales origination, supply chain and installation, operations and long term financing. The resultant financing vehicle provided the capital foundation to manage the growth and eventually its IPO and public market success."

    Bob Kelly
    CFO SolarCity