CEO Speaker Series — "Nobody Talks About the Messy Middle" with Jon Allen, President of Amplēo

Jon Allen came into Amplēo in 2021 as a fractional CFO. He is now its President and sits on its board, and he runs the team that buys other companies. Amplēo places fractional CFOs, CMOs and CHROs into growing businesses, took on private equity backing from Unity Partners in June 2025, and has announced seven acquisitions in under two years. That is the tidy version. Jon's answer, when we asked what a room of CEOs and owners actually needs to hear, was the opposite: nobody talks about the messy