About Northfield Advisory Group
Northfield Advisory Group works with business owners and leadership teams facing complex challenges that cross traditional functional boundaries.
With experience spanning corporate strategy, finance and accounting, organizational structure, operations, and technology, Northfield brings an independent perspective to understanding where a business has been, where it stands today, and where its owners want to take it.
Current Projects
Great River Capital -Strategic & Business Advisory
Preferred Services - Startup Development & Business Model Strategy
Preferred Services - Startup Development & Business Model Strategy
Northfield is currently providing advisory support to Great River Capital, a Northeast-focused real estate investment firm. Our work brings an independent operating and financial perspective to business strategy, investment evaluation and opportunities for long-term growth.
Preferred Services - Startup Development & Business Model Strategy
Preferred Services - Startup Development & Business Model Strategy
Preferred Services - Startup Development & Business Model Strategy
Northfield is working alongside the founders of Preferred Services, an early-stage technology-enabled business focused on improving utilization in the professional trades.
Leadership
Derek Paruolo | Managing Principal
Derek brings more than two decades of executive experience across corporate strategy, finance, operations, M&A, and enterprise management within complex, asset-intensive international businesses.
Over the course of his career, Derek has held senior executive roles including Chief Financial Officer and President, as well as global leadership responsibility for corporate strategy. His responsibilities have spanned corporate finance and treasury, operations, technology, organizational development, human resources, risk, and corporate services.
Derek has also played a leadership role in major transactions and periods of organizational change, including acquisitions, business integration, corporate restructuring, capital investment, and asset financing. His experience includes working across multiple international markets with executive leadership, boards, financial institutions, and other stakeholders.
His approach to advisory work reflects that experience: understand how the business actually operates, ask the difficult questions, bring the right people and information together, and turn strategy into practical action.
Education & Professional Credentials
Derek’s professional foundation combines business education with hands-on operational experience. He completed executive education at Columbia Business School and earned his Master of Business Administration from the University of Connecticut. He also holds both Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees from the State University New York Maritime College. Earlier in his career, Derek earned a U.S. Coast Guard Third Mate, Unlimited Tonnage license, reflecting the operational maritime foundation that preceded his progression into finance, strategy, and executive leadership.
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Northfield Advisory Group
Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
