the bench
Meet our trusted bench of CFOs and specialists, on call to offer outsourced support and solutions to your unique business challenges.
meet Meera Dhingra
Finance, strategy and business leader with 20+ years of experience in food and beverage / CPG. She has enthusiasm for taking on new challenges and a deep and diverse skill set. Meera has served as an investor, a strategic and financial advisor and as an operator.
She began her career on Wall Street in investment banking and at a hedge fund. With this foundation, she transitioned to the start-up / high growth entrepreneurship world where she have co-founded a beverage company, raised capital for various venture backed companies both as an inside executive and as an outside advisor, led the financing operations for a CPG company, and most recently served as a Chief Strategy Officer.
In addition to her technical skills, Meera brings a myriad of industry relationships and a commitment to ethical leadership.
She’s currently consulting and is open to consulting opportunities as well as pursuing a longer-term entrepreneurial endeavor.
Specialties: CPG space (food and beverage, health and wellness, beauty and personal care)
Billing: Depends, though predominantly flat rate.
Typical rates: Generally from 3k-10k (the large range is a function of a) whether the engagement is for core strategic CFO work or core strategic CFO + fundraising support and b) how in-depth the fundraising support is.
Favorite type of client: “I enjoy the broader CPG space (food and beverage, health and wellness, beauty and personal care); I like tangible products and have worked across various channels. In terms of scale, I like working with companies as early as pre-revenue and up to $75-100mm in revenue.”
Something personal about Meera: “I live in the WashPark area in Denver with my boxer shepherd, Sadie. I love running (distance), working out, and being outside. I equally love food and wine, traveling and entertaining.”