Fractional & Full-Time Executive Leadership
Executive leadership that starts producing in weeks, not quarters.
Ruh Industries takes the CFO, COO, or Chief Supply Chain Officer seat inside retail, technology, and transportation companies. We build the financial and operational infrastructure your growth already outran, and we build it to keep running after we hand it off.
- Fractional
- Interim
- Full-time placement
Led by Ben Ruh. Over fifteen years in finance, operations, and supply chain, including senior roles on the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the FIFA World Cup 26. Background
What We Do
Three executive seats. One operator’s point of view.
Finance, operations, and supply chain are usually treated as three separate problems. In a growing company they are almost always the same problem, seen from three chairs. We sit in all three.
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Financial Leadership
Chief Financial Officer
Know your numbers before you need them.
- 13-week cash flow and rolling forecast
- Month-end close discipline and clean reporting
- Unit economics and margin analysis
- Board, lender, and investor reporting packages
- Fundraise, credit facility, and diligence readiness
- Budgeting, variance review, and capital allocation
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Operations Leadership
Chief Operating Officer
Turn heroics into process.
- Operating cadence: goals, KPIs, weekly business review
- Org design, role clarity, and accountability mapping
- Process design and documentation people actually follow
- Workflow automation across finance, sales, and ops handoffs
- Practical AI adoption: where it earns its keep, and where it does not
- Systems selection and implementation oversight (ERP, CRM, planning)
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Supply Chain Leadership
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Inventory is strategy, not a spreadsheet.
- Sales & operations planning (S&OP) stand-up and cadence
- Demand planning and forecast accuracy
- Inventory planning, safety stock, and working-capital release
- Sourcing strategy and category management
- Supplier negotiation, contracts, and scorecards
- Procurement process, approvals, and spend visibility
Where We Work
Sectors where operating detail decides the outcome.
Retail & Consumer
Multi-channel margin, inventory turns, seasonal cash swings, and the real economics of a store, a wholesale account, or a DTC channel.
Technology
Recurring-revenue reporting, burn discipline, gross-margin architecture, and the transition out of founder-led operations into a company that runs on systems.
Transportation
Asset utilization, lane and load profitability, driver and fleet cost structure, capacity planning, and the reporting to see all of it weekly instead of quarterly.
Why Ruh Industries
Speed to value, then a clean exit.
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You get the operator, not a pyramid
Whoever you meet on the intro call is who does the work. No engagement manager, no analyst tier producing the deliverable, no partner who disappears after the sale.
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We start in the work
Week one is spent in your systems and your numbers, not in kickoff meetings. You should have something you can use by week two.
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Built to be handed off
Every process we design is documented, owned by a named person on your team, and still running a year after we leave. Dependence on us is a failure mode.
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Sustainable, not heroic
We design for the team you actually have. A process that only works when the smartest person in the building is watching it is not a process.
Common Questions
Before you book a call.
What does “fractional” actually mean?
You get a senior executive for a defined slice of their week, commonly one to three days, on an ongoing basis. They attend your leadership meetings, own real deliverables, and are accountable for outcomes, exactly as a full-time hire would be. You are not buying advice by the hour; you are buying a seat.
How quickly can you start?
Most engagements begin within one to two weeks of a signed scope. Week one is spent inside your systems and your numbers rather than in kickoff meetings, and the first concrete deliverable (usually a cash model, a close calendar, or an inventory picture) lands inside week two.
What size company do you work with?
Typically companies from roughly $1M to $50M in revenue, though the better filter is complexity rather than size. If you have multiple channels, real inventory, meaningful headcount, or outside capital, there is usually enough operational surface area for this to pay for itself.
Who actually does the work?
The person you meet on the intro call. Ruh Industries is deliberately structured so that the operator who sells the engagement is the operator who runs it. There is no analyst tier producing the deliverable and no partner who hands you off after the sale. Where an engagement needs a specialist we do not have, we say so and help you find one rather than stretching to cover it.
Do you replace our bookkeeper, accountant, or CPA?
No. Those roles record and report what happened. A CFO decides what should happen next and makes sure the company can see far enough ahead to act. We work alongside your existing accounting team and, frequently, make their job easier by fixing the process feeding them.
How is pricing structured?
Fractional engagements are a flat monthly fee tied to a committed number of days per month. Interim coverage is priced as a full-time equivalent for the length of the window. We do not bill hourly, and we do not invoice for surprises.
Can a fractional engagement turn into a full-time hire?
Often, and we plan for it. Part of the work is defining what the permanent role should look like once the company has grown into it. When you are ready, we help write the role, evaluate candidates, and transition the work, whether the person who lands in the seat comes through us or through you.
Do you work remotely or on-site?
Both. Most of the recurring work is remote, but operations and supply chain engagements in particular usually require time in the facility and with suppliers. We scope travel explicitly up front so it is never a surprise line item.
What happens when the engagement ends?
You keep everything: the models, the documentation, the reporting package, the vendor contracts, the training materials. Every process is assigned to a named owner on your team before we step back. A successful exit means nothing breaks when we stop showing up.