From Jobsite to Strategy
Our story starts beside a master carpenter, broom in hand, learning how real work gets done. That early construction experience still shapes how we think about planning, risk, and growth.
Engineering Meets Finance
That toolbox grew with a Mechanical Engineering degree and an MBA focused on Accounting and Finance. We combine field sense with boardroom rigor to help business owners make smarter financial decisions.
Guiding Owners Forward
After owning, scaling, and selling companies, we now work beside business owners and their teams. We listen to their concerns: making payroll or buying a company? From there, we study the company and their finances to chart a clear path forward. Together, we help transform their business to one focused on success and growth ... not worry.
Alfred Hughes, Founder and CFO
Alfred Hughes leads CFO Advisory Services and Centric Funding as a seasoned operator who has sat in nearly every seat his clients occupy. He built and ran a highly successful residential design and build construction company and served on the board of a thriving commercial construction firm. That experience is backed by a Mechanical Engineering degree, an MBA with an Accounting and Finance emphasis, and former CPA status, which keeps the numbers side as strong as the field sense.
Alfred has advised restaurants, home service firms, and other businesses, and he has negotiated and sold more than 300 home service companies. Clients work directly with him for straight talk, clear strategy, and future-focused financial direction, but Al can't do it alone.
Operations and Growth
After finishing at Penn State, Tricia (Al's wife) joined NBC. Facing the glass ceiling, she left to start her career's upward climb, ending as the COO for three different communications companies.
That background in fast-moving, service-driven environments keeps our work practical, organized, and focused on real client outcomes. She makes sure plans on paper turn into consistent execution in the business.
From coordinating lending workflows to shaping client communication and follow up, her role is to keep engagements smooth and responsive. Clients feel the benefit through clear expectations, timely answers, and action items that do not get lost.
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