Fractional CFO, COO, and institutional advisory for visionary founders, emerging companies, and new investment offices. We bridge capital with world-changing innovation, and build the future with clarity, precision, and purpose.
This practice was founded on a simple but powerful insight: the gap between what investors expect and what most emerging firms can operationally deliver is where deals stall, confidence erodes, and momentum dies.
We exist to close that gap. With direct experience on the principal side of venture capital and private equity, we understand not just how funds are administered, but how they are perceived, evaluated, and trusted by the capital they are trying to attract and retain.
The work is rooted in the belief that for-profit business can be a vehicle for consciousness, purpose, and meaningful change when the right systems, financial strategy, and leadership are in place. Ambitious ideas become investable, scalable, and operationally sound businesses.
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Years across VC, PE, and fund operations
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Fractional mandates: CFO, COO, CIO
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Seed rounds modeled, packaged, and closed
Tailored consulting across three mandates, engaged individually or together, depending on where the pressure is greatest in your business right now.
Financial strategy and capital formation
Financial strategy, capital formation, and operational execution across the business, architecting the long-term growth trajectory and the foundational infrastructure investors expect to find.
Operating systems and scale
The operating layer beneath the vision: organizational design, process, and performance tracking that let leadership scale without the structure buckling underneath them.
Funds, family offices, and emerging managers
Built for emerging managers and new investment offices: fund structure, offering documents, LP materials, and the reporting discipline that turns a first-time manager into an institutional counterparty.
Built by a practitioner who has sat on both sides of the table. We do not just administer, we stabilize direction and align capital with the story your investors need to hear.
When the vision is bold but the structure is still forming, we step in. Ambition is translated into a coherent operational blueprint your investors and your team can execute against.
Capital meets chaos, and we bring order. From entity formation to fund operations, we build the institutional infrastructure that turns direction into momentum.
Your operational reality has to match the story you are telling investors. Financial reporting, LP communications, and fund structure are aligned with your capital strategy.
High-impact ventures need a steady operational core. We build the systems and accountability structures that give leadership the stability to focus on what matters most.
“My mission is to bridge capital with world-changing innovation and build the future with clarity, precision, and purpose.”
Mary Genevieve Chelini
Founder, Fractional Consulting
Engagements are scoped to your stage and the depth of support required. Every package begins with a consultation, where we confirm fit and shape the mandate together before anything is committed.
For founders raising capital and building the financial spine of the company.
Starting at $6,000per month
Starting at $12,000per month
Everything in Startup Package
When a full retainer is not the right fit, these are the focused formats: a few weeks of concentrated work, a single working session, or a specialist project scoped on its own terms.
Starting at $10,000per sprint
For founders who need clarity on financial strategy or want to become investor-ready. A focused deep dive over a few weeks that produces a custom action plan.
Sprint options
Starting at $10,000per sprint
For teams looking to streamline operations and scale. We identify the bottlenecks holding growth back and build a roadmap to resolve them.
Sprint options
$1,500per session
A 90-minute working session on a single question, with direct guidance and clear next steps you can act on immediately.
Topics
Custombased on scope and duration
Specialist engagements scoped individually, available alongside or independent of a retainer.
Schedule a consultationAll engagements begin with a consultation. Nothing is purchased directly through this site.
Founder and Principal
Mary Genevieve Chelini is a venture capital and private equity executive with over 15 years of experience across alternative investments, life sciences, and technology. With deep expertise in financial modeling, fundraising, and LP/GP relations, Mary brings an operator-to-investor perspective that helps emerging managers build institutional-grade foundations.
A Dean's List graduate of NYU and a USC Marshall MBA Forté Fellow, Mary's career has spanned leadership roles at Wilshire Associates and Blue Ox Healthcare Partners, and as co-founder of CerraCap North and Director of Investment Operations at CerraCap Impact Venture Capital.
As a fractional CFO, she led the seed round for a D2C mail-order pharmacy business, building investor-grade projection models and data rooms, and helped franchise a single-family office and foundation.
Mary walked into a company that was moving faster than its own structure and left us with a financial model, a data room, and a raise we could actually defend in front of investors.
She understands both sides of the table. Our LP reporting went from a scramble every quarter to something we are genuinely proud to send.
The operational clarity was immediate. Within a quarter we had the dashboards, the hiring plan, and the process discipline we had been putting off for two years.
Every engagement begins with a consultation. We confirm fit, size the work honestly, and outline what the first ninety days will look like.
Schedule a consultationEvery engagement begins with a consultation. We confirm fit, size the work honestly, and outline what the first ninety days would look like before anything is committed.
Anything you share stays confidential and is used only to prepare for our conversation.
Tell us about the company or fund and what you are trying to reach.