Susan Stone, MBA

As a Fractional CFO, I help business owners transform financial complexity into clarity. I partner with CEOs and founders across commercial real estate, venture-backed startups, and growing companies to build financial infrastructure, structure capital, execute FP&A and financial reporting, and guide strategic decisions at critical inflection points.

My background spans commercial real estate, PropTech, FinTech, construction, senior living, and healthcare. Before joining Ascent CFO Solutions, I provided Fractional CFO services to venture-backed startups and real estate funds, advising on over $500M in financing transactions. As co-founder and CFO of Ascent Commercial Real Estate, I optimized fund performance and raised $20M in capital in under nine months. I also spent several years managing commercial real estate portfolios for national financial institutions and worked at Lument, structuring financing for senior living and healthcare properties. Earlier in my career, I was an equity analyst at JPMorgan, managing investments across multiple sectors.

I earned my MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and my BSBA from The Ohio State University with a focus on Finance, Economics, and Spanish. Outside of work, I’m a proud boy mom, dog mom, wife, and avid world traveler who enjoys tennis, golf, and (attempting to) learn new languages.