A seasoned business strategist and leader, Jeff works closely with executive teams navigating today’s complex environment, where innovation, disciplined strategy, and smart risk-taking are essential. His expertise spans strategic planning, rapid market expansion, and operational scale-up, helping organizations accelerate growth and maximize value.

Under Jeff’s leadership, SynFiny Advisors has been recognized by Inc. Magazine on the Inc. 5000 list for six consecutive years as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States.

Before founding SynFiny, Jeff spent 25 years at Procter & Gamble as a finance executive, leading across multiple geographies and driving large-scale business transformation. Over more than three decades, he has developed game-changing strategies across industries, products, and services, advising both startups and multi-billion-dollar enterprises.

In this candid conversation, Jeff shares lessons on reinvention across continents, saying yes before you feel fully ready, and what it truly takes to move from corporate leadership to entrepreneurial life.

This episode is hosted by Ida Abdalkhani, Change Catalyzer, award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, and P&G Alumni Board Member.

This is a sponsored episode with SynFiny Advisors, a proud sponsor of the P&G Alumni Network.

Interested in featuring your company or executives on the P&G Alumni Podcast? Reach out to jswuest@pgalums.com

This year the P&G Alumni Foundation in partnership with the P&G Women’s Leadership forum are partnering for International Women’s Day March 8th 2026.    This year’s theme Give to Gain, feels deeply personal for all P&G Alums.  

A Story of What “Give to Gain” Really Means

One of our previous P&G Alumni Foundation grant award winners, the Sherbro Foundation Sierra Leone, led by P&G Alum Grant Champion Arlene Golembiewski, shows exactly how powerful this model can be.  Sherbro Foundation Sierra Leone has a clear mission: lifting rural Sierra Leone from subsistence living to self-reliance through education and economic opportunity. They plant seeds of change — believing lasting transformation happens when communities lead it themselves.

Every morning Abibatu Kamara walks to her three-acre farm with confidence she did not always have.  A divorced mother supporting five family members, Abibatu once survived on petty trading, earning barely enough to feed her household day by day. Everything changed when she joined the Let Them Earn program, supported by Sherbro Foundation. Through an interest-free loan and modern farming training, she gained the tools to transform overgrown land into productive farmland.

Today, she:

• Grows peanuts, rice, and cassava for reliable harvest cycles
• Hires local laborers, creating jobs for others
• Covers food, school fees, and farm expansion costs

But the real gain goes beyond income. Abibatu now makes her own farming decisions. She speaks up in village meetings. She is respected. She is secure.  When we give wisely, women gain independence — and entire communities rise.

The Multiplier Effect of Your Gift

This year, the P&G Fund for Gender Equality will match all donations up to $50,000 through the end of April, 

Your gift goes further. And the impact multiplies.

Consider what your generosity can do:

• $50 can help a Sierra Leone woman farmer buy peanut seed that triples her income.
• $100 can help an African woman learn basic business skills — increasing her income from $1.35 to $4.19 per day, moving toward a livable wage.
• $250 can fund a farmer loan that doubles a family’s farm size from 2 to 4 acres.
• $500 can help 50 Sierra Leone farmers learn small business skills they have never had access to — or test the business idea of an aspiring entrepreneur in Colorado.
• $1,000 can help 50 farmers learn modern growing methods that double or triple incomes — or equip at-risk young Italian adults with tools to become future gelato-makers.

These are not abstract numbers. These are women like Abibatu.

A Challenge to Our Alumni Community

Here’s a simple challenge:
Consider giving $100.

For many of us, that is manageable. For a woman entrepreneur in rural Africa, it can change the trajectory of her income, her children’s education, and her long-term stability.

Give to Gain is not just a theme.
It is a principle we lived at P&G.
When someone invested in us, we grew.

Now it’s our turn.

Let’s come together as a global alumni community.
Let’s fully unlock the $50,000 match.
Let’s fund her future.

When she gains, we all do.

We honor Alumni in the following categories:

• Community Service: For an individual who has made a significant contribution of their time, effort, and expertise to the community in which they live. The award can reflect a single event or a lifetime of work.
• John E. Pepper Humanitarian: For an individual who has made a significant contribution to the human condition through their time, effort, or expertise, whether this was a single event or a lifetime of work. This award is intended to recognize actions that go well beyond efforts in a single community or location and serve mankind as a whole.
• Diversity & Inclusion:  For an individual who has delivered exceptional results by leveraging a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. This person is a proven leader and role model who has inspired others to drive equality and to lead inclusively in the workplace and/or in society.
• Early Achievement:  For an individual who, in the early stages of their career, has shown outstanding potential based on early achievements in innovation, entrepreneurship or general management. This awardee empowers those around them and makes a meaningful impact on the markets they serve, representing the best of P&G Alumni.
• Innovation: For an individual who has contributed a significant innovation to the world of business during their career. This is an award to recognize creativity that has been translated into business success.
• John G. Smale General Management: For an individual who has made a significant contribution to the world of business whether the result of a single event or concept or the compilation of a lifetime of achievements.
• McElroy: Procter & Gamble has long been recognized as the preeminent consumer company in the world and it desires to maintain this position. This is specifically not a “Marketer of the Year” award to be focused solely on the marketing function nor on a single time period. Rather, this award is intended to recognize significant contributions to the art and science of satisfying the consumer whether that is the result of a single event or concept or the compilation of a lifetime of achievements.

To nominate an alum or to self-nominate, click here. You will be asked to provide contact information and LinkedIn profiles for you as well as the person you are nominating along with an explanation of the basis for your recommendation (max 500 words). If you are nominating someone other than yourself, please confirm that they want to be considered.

A committee of P&G Alumni peers will review all nominees and make the final selection, to be announced this Fall and recognized at the 2027 P&G Alumni Global Conference.
All recipients must agree to attend the awards ceremony in person.

Application deadline is Wednesday, March 20, 2026.