Insights from the Architect's Desk

If you have posted a C-level finance role on LinkedIn in 2025, you have likely experienced the chaos of executive candidate screening . You have posted a C-level finance role, and you have likely experienced: The Flood. Within 48 hours, your inbox is inundated with 300+ applications. On the surface, it looks like a rich talent pool. But as you begin to sift through, the reality sets in. You are not looking at a shortlist of potential CFOs. You are looking at a long queue of

It may start with waking nightmares at 3:00 AM. You have built a successful business from nothing. You remember when the "office" was your kitchen table. You know the name of every client, every driver, and every invoice. But today, the whole machinery has grown to be your prison. You are the Chief Executive, the Chief Sales Officer, and the Chief Firefighter. You are exhausted. You know, logically , that you need to hire a professional CEO or a strategic CFO to take the re

You spent years building your reputation, but… you can burn it in ten minutes. In the high-stakes world of C Level Finance, we obsess over the "onboarding"—the first 90 days. But in my 30+ years of corporate banking and executive search, I have observed a dangerous paradox:  executives are hired for their competence.  but they are remembered for their exit. If you are a CFO in Bucharest facing the new 2026 fiscal reality, your resignation is not an administrative event. It is