About Northstar
We run the finance function for growing businesses. That's all we do.
Northstar deploys a complete finance team, bookkeeper, controller, CFO, and tax strategist, for businesses doing $2M-$50M across cannabis, construction, healthcare, and e-commerce. One team. Every level of financial expertise. So you can stop managing the numbers and start running your company.
500+
Clients Served
15+
Years in Business
70+
Finance Professionals
$7B+
In Transactions Advised
What Makes Us Different
Not another accounting firm. A different model entirely.
We run it, we don’t just advise on it.
Most firms give you reports and recommendations. We take ownership of your entire finance function: the bookkeeping, the reporting, the strategy, the tax planning. One team, under one roof, working as an extension of your business.
Your industry is our specialty.
We don’t serve everyone. We go deep in cannabis, construction, healthcare, and e-commerce, industries where financial complexity is highest and generic accountants fail most often. Our team speaks your language because it’s all they do.
Backed by a national network.
Northstar is part of Crete Professionals Alliance, a network of 46 premier accounting firms doing nearly $1B in combined revenue. You get boutique attention with institutional depth. We’re the leading fractional CFO and accounting arm in the alliance.
Why Northstar Exists
The gap Lorenzo saw. The firm he built to fill it.
Before founding Northstar, Lorenzo spent years as a CFO managing large in-house finance teams at companies like International Rectifier and Entertainment One. He saw two problems that every growing business faced, and neither had a good solution.
The first problem was in-house teams. Hiring, recruiting, training, and replacing financial staff was expensive and time-consuming. Finding the right talent to handle everything from daily bookkeeping to strategic financial planning was nearly impossible, especially for businesses doing under $50M.
The second problem was outsourcing. It was cheap, but the results were cheap too. Outsourced providers were so disconnected from day-to-day operations that there was no way they could do the job well. They filed reports without context and gave advice without understanding the business.
Lorenzo started Northstar to create the bridge between those two broken models: a fully integrated financial partner that works as an extension of your team, but on a fractional basis. Your bookkeeper is a bookkeeper. Your controller is a controller. Your CFO is a CFO. Each person does what they do best, which means you get maximum output at a fraction of the cost of building it yourself.
That model, the finance pod, has now served over 500 businesses across four industries. It works because it solves the problem Lorenzo lived firsthand.
“Growing companies deserve the same caliber of financial leadership that public companies take for granted.”
Meet the Team
The people behind your finance pod.
Lorenzo Nourafchan
Founder & CEO
Over the past 15 years, Lorenzo has shepherded more than 500 clients from launch to scale to success. He built Northstar on a simple observation: growing businesses were stuck choosing between expensive in-house teams they couldn't afford and disconnected outsourced providers who didn't understand their operations. Neither worked. So he built something that did.
Prior to founding Northstar, Lorenzo was an integral member of T3, a technology transfer company behind some of the world's most innovative companies. He later joined the financial team of International Rectifier (NYSE: IRF), where he assisted the company through a $3 billion sale to Infineon, before joining Entertainment One (LSE: ETO), where he helped engineer the company's $4 billion sale to Hasbro.
That corporate finance pedigree, combined with 15 years of hands-on work with founders and CEOs, is the foundation of everything Northstar delivers today. The firm now serves businesses across cannabis, construction, healthcare, and e-commerce with a team of 70+ financial professionals, backed by Crete Professionals Alliance, one of the nation's largest networks of premier accounting firms.
Lorenzo holds a B.A. from Yeshiva University and an MBA in Finance from the Technion Institute of Technology. He's married with four children, fascinated by AI and its applications in financial services, and runs a community center for young professionals. When he's not building finance pods, you'll find him on the tennis court or the ski slopes.
Luigi Gonzalez
COO & Head of Client Delivery
Luigi oversees Northstar’s pod operations and client delivery. Before joining Northstar, he spent 10 years at PwC and 9 years at Accenture, building the operational infrastructure and client service standards that define how Northstar’s finance pods operate. He’s the person who makes sure every pod runs like a machine.
Libby Horn
Senior CFO, Healthcare Practice
Libby leads Northstar’s healthcare engagements, bringing deep expertise in medical practice finance, provider compensation modeling, and practice valuation. She’s the CFO sitting across the table from practice owners once a month, translating complex financial data into decisions that make sense.
What Our Clients Say
Don't take our word for it.
“When I had my own in-house accounting team, I always used to look over their shoulders to make sure they were doing their job. Now that I have Northstar, your customer service is on such a high level that that's never a question anymore. I'm getting so much better visibility and insight into the business. I would never work anywhere else.”
Sam Seltzer
CEO, AutoMotion
“As a fractional CFO, I always need to scale up my services and ensure my clients have the proper accounting supporting them. Northstar has excelled in supporting us on every front. I recommend Northstar as your one-stop shop for anything accounting and finance.”
Tyson McDonald
Fractional CFO
“Northstar stepped in as our full controller solution during a period of rapid growth. They cleaned up our books, guided us through two annual audits, and built the reporting infrastructure we needed to plan our expansion with confidence.”
Dov Weisman
VP of Finance, Libertana Home Health
“If you’re looking for the best company to both strategize and implement self-sustaining financial systems, Northstar is it. From idea to execution, they put heart and energy into their work.”
Alex Lidow
CEO, Efficient Power Conversion
Track Record
The track record speaks.
We took a pre-revenue startup in Michigan from zero to $100M in revenue, served as their finance team through two audits, helped them go public, and supported a nine-figure exit.
We've had auditors ask if they could refer us to their other clients because they'd never seen books that clean. We've helped companies raise capital at every stage, from seed rounds to institutional financing.
And with every engagement, we try to make every client feel like they're our only client. That's not a tagline. It's the operational standard that Luigi and the pod leaders enforce every day.
Let's figure out what your business needs.
Every engagement starts with a conversation. We'll learn about your business, your industry, and your financial pain points, then tell you exactly how we can help.
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