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Patrick Souris, CPA

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Finance at Fundamental
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Patrick Souris is an active CPA and finance leader with 15 years of experience helping high-growth, VC-backed startups scale. As an early Controller, he has guided companies from Series A to F through IPO readiness and significant revenue growth. He holds an MBA from Northern Arizona University.

His professional life is deeply embedded in the tech startup ecosystem, particularly with companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Patrick has served on advisory boards and is an active member of professional communities like the Operators Guild, focusing on financial leadership and innovation.

Unique fact: He specializes in being the first finance hire, building accounting functions from the ground up and taking them from "scrappy to scalable. "

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Experience
2 Years
Current Role
Finance
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Scaling Finance Teams
His career focuses on building scalable processes and reporting for high-growth, VC-backed startups, taking them from approximately $10M to over $500M in revenue.
AI in Finance
He has spoken at conferences on leveraging AI for finance team scalability and was the Controller at an AI video editing company, Descript.
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Career

Work history

3-2026
Finance
Fundamental
1-2026
Member
Operators Guild
9-2025
Finance Advisory Board Member
Sequence
8-2025 - 3-2026
Controller
Descript
4-2023 - 7-2025
Controller
Forma
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Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Northern Arizona University
Bachelors
Northern Arizona University
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