Matthew Sisken, MBA

Interim Chief Financial Officer

New York, NY matthew.sisken@gmail.com +1 (859) 469-1159 matthewsisken.com LinkedIn

Interim CFO with 11+ years across FP&A, strategic finance, corporate development, and investment banking. Leads finance for a multi-brand media and live-events company, owning budgeting, rolling forecasts, board reporting, fundraising, and M&A. Stands up and restructures finance functions and drives multimillion-dollar EBITDA gains through lean, AI-enabled teams.

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Experience Bustle Digital Group NBCUniversal Morgan Stanley Schneider Electric Ford Motor Company
Education University of Oxford — MBA University of Kentucky — BBA
-$13M → $10M
EBITDA turnaround led at BDG (2025 → 2026E)
22% → 30%
Margin expansion on large-scale live events
$60M
M&A ($50M) + capital raise ($10M) executed with Lazard
$700M+
Technology & AI P&L owned at NBCUniversal across 15+ units

Experience

Bustle Digital Group (BDG)
Interim Chief Financial Officer · Aug 2026 – Present
Executive Director, Finance · 2025 – 2026
Senior Director, Finance · 2025
  • Drove an EBITDA turnaround from -$13M to $3M in 2025 and a projected $10M in 2026 as interim CFO, rebuilding the FP&A org and expanding margins on large-scale live events from 22% to 30%.
  • Executed a $10M capital raise and $50M of buy- and sell-side M&A with Lazard, owning investor communications, modeling, and diligence.
  • Manage an 8-person finance and revenue-operations division, building scalable processes and automating models, billing, and AP through the AI transition ($400K+ in ongoing savings).
  • Ran GAAP close, audit, and transaction accounting; recommended and transitioned to a new audit firm, saving $300K per year.
  • Led a tender offer to restructure the cap table and refinanced debt, cutting the loan interest rate by 2.3%.
  • Rebuilt the cash forecast and liquidity plan after a near shortfall, restoring a $3.5M cash balance.
NBCUniversal
FP&A Director, AI, SaaS & Tech Ops Org · 2023 – 2025
  • Owned a $700M Technology Ops & SaaS P&L across 15+ business units (revenue, gross costs, capex), driving $3M in cost savings.
  • Built the $200M AI-organization P&L from scratch (200+ headcount), including forecasting, budgeting, and reporting.
  • Built KPI reporting and a forecasting cadence for senior leadership to improve investment decision-making and cost visibility.
  • Reported to the CFO of Technology & AI; managed two direct reports, owning long-range planning and month-end close.
Morgan Stanley
Assistant Vice President, Global Capital Markets · 2021 – 2022
Associate, Global Capital Markets · 2019 – 2021
  • Worked with C-suite teams on the UiPath IPO and supported the Roblox and Warby Parker listings, partnering on pricing and structuring.
  • Managed 20+ global private-market clients through IPO readiness and equity strategy across media and consumer companies.
  • Built valuation models, offering analyses, and pitch materials for tender offers and follow-on equity raises.
  • Modeled cap structures, dilution scenarios, and offering size to inform pricing, deal sizing, and use of proceeds.
Schneider Electric
Senior Financial Analyst, Strategy · 2017 – 2019
  • Managed a $25M strategy P&L and drove $2M in annual cost savings through modeling-led restructuring initiatives.
Ford Motor Company
International Financial Analyst · 2015 – 2017
  • Supported budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis for the company's international operations.

Additional Experience

Homefield
Board Member & Financial Consultant · 2025 – Present
  • Serve as financial consultant to the board, helping drive financial decisions, pricing, and strategy.
  • Healthcare company bringing family medicine to professional sports teams, including the New York Mets and NBA pilot teams.
TrueHold
Finance Consultant · 2022
  • Finance lead on the company's $40M Series B (Bain Capital, Era Ventures); built the valuation model and investor materials and modeled unit economics (ARR, LTV/CAC).
  • Stood up the finance org and FP&A function; owned board materials for investors including Oaktree Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners.

Awards & Activities

J.P. Morgan Prize

Highest grades in Finance coursework, Oxford MBA cohort

Kentucky Colonel Award

Awarded by the Kentucky Governor to <300 Kentuckians annually

Finance Lecturer — University of Kentucky

Corporate Finance courses, Gatton School of Business

Education

University of Oxford

Full-Time MBA · 2022 – 2023

University of Kentucky

BBA, Finance · 2011 – 2015

Skills & Tools

Finance & Leadership

FP&AStrategic FinanceLong-Range PlanningBudgeting & ForecastingScenario & Sensitivity AnalysisBoard & Investor ReportingM&A & DiligenceCapital RaisesCorporate DevelopmentCapital AllocationASC 606 / GAAPTeam Leadership

Systems & Tools

NetSuiteSAPLookerTableauSQLCartaRampExcel (VBA)AI workflow automation (Claude)

Interests

SwimmingRunningTennisUltimate FrisbeePickleballCollege Football