MEET THE TEAM
GROWCFO TEAM
At GrowCFO, our team is a dynamic blend of diverse skills and backgrounds, united by a common goal: to create meaningful impact for people, planet, and profit. Each member brings unique expertise, enabling us to tackle challenges from multiple angles and drive sustainable growth for our clients. Together, we're committed to making a difference.
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Jeremy is the Co-Founder and Lead CFO of Grow CFO. He is a strategic dynamo, providing high level financial strategy for fast growth companies. He has 25 years of tax accounting experience and also played a key role in listing Genius Group on the New York Stock Exchange in 2022. He holds multiple awards and industry credentials including profitability leader and Bx Business xCellence Awards Accounting Business of the Year for 2023. He co-founded Grow CFO because he no longer wanted to focus time and attention on producing numbers to look backwards, he wanted to change lives by using those numbers to forecast the next steps for a business.
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Current Role
Co-Founder and Lead CFO
Ultimate Goal
Jeremy’s main goal is to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses. He is best at analyzing and interpreting numbers using unique dashboards, which can also be used in developing strategies to help businesses reach their goals.
As a strategic dynamo, Jeremy provides high level financial strategy for fast growth companies.
For 25 years, Jeremy was a tax accountant with his own practice until he re-focussed and re-purposed. He co-founded Grow CFO because he no longer wanted to focus time and attention on producing numbers to look backwards, he wanted to change lives by using those numbers to forecast the next steps for a business.
As CFO of Genius Group Limited, Jeremy was part of the team that successfully executed a listing on the New York Stock Exchange in April 2022 (GNS). He brings that experience to guide small and medium enterprise business owners on growing their businesses.
Biggest Career Achievement to Date
Standing on the podium of the New York Stock Exchange to ring the bell as the CFO for the listing company.
Reaching the satisfaction of helping businesses win awards and excel more in the industry.
Awards
Winner - Bx Business xCellence Awards Accounting Business of the Year - 2023
Winner - Abundance Global Profitability Leader - 2023
Finalist - Abundance Global Profitability Leader - 2022
Nominated Australian CFO Awards - Finance Team of the Year (SME) - 2022
Winner - Abundance Global Abundance Community Spirit 2020
Winner - Entrepreneur’s Institute Crystal Circle Entrepreneur Award - Tempo Award 2018
Credentials
Bachelor of Business - Accountancy 1991 Queensland University of Technology
Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia 1994
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia Certificate of Public Practice 2000
BAS Agent Qualificiations 2023
A Quirky Fact
Keeps a ‘Stay Focused’ photo and uses this when doing challenging tasks
Jeremy - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-harris-a5705926/
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Deborah, CEO of Grow Group Global, is a strategist, philanthropist, and entrepreneur with over 30 years of business experience. She co-founded Grow CFO and scaled it during the pandemic. A mentor and investor, she has won multiple awards, including Entrepreneur of the Year 2023. Deborah is passionate about improving businesses and communities through financial support and innovation. She believes people with the courage to start their own business and provide opportunities for others around them deserve to have the very best advice and support.
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Current Role
CEO of Grow Group Global, parent company to brands Grow CFO Co., Direct Management, and My Plan Plus. Deborah is also an awesome strategist, passionate philanthropist, speaker/educator and entrepreneur. She has been an angel investor for more than a dozen years and is an active member of Brisbane Angels. Together, Deborah and her husband, Jeremy, have owned and operated successful businesses for over 30 years and are proud parents of five young adults.
Ultimate Goal
Deborah’s ultimate goal is to influence people in the financial industry to be able to better support the businesses in their care so that they have the best chance to succeed. When this is achieved, Deborah believes you don’t just help that one person who owns the business; you also impact their employees, their families, and the community beyond. Deborah can also communicate in the language of the entrepreneur so that together they can solve their business challenges.
She does this not just for their families but to improve the world for her own family.
The Biggest Career Achievements to Date
Deborah co-founded Grow CFO first as a side hustle, then committed to making it work and grow. This was six months before COVID hit and when many businesses were starting to go under. During this time, Deborah and her team scaled by more than 10 times with the first acquisition of Grow Group in March 2023.
Of her many attributes, her role as mentor is one of the most invaluable to her team, community, and family, and she has mentored business owners and entrepreneurs across the globe.
The Grow Group’s most significant achievements are the results of our clients, such as:
Health-Tech Acceleration: From monthly revenues of $30K to nearly $2M in 24 months
Ed-Tech Triumph: led the finance team of a global ed-tech company to list on the New York Stock Exchange.
Innovative Health Solutions: Scaled a client's annual revenue from $850K to a weekly revenue of $950K in just a few years.
Awards
Winner - Bx Business xCellence Awards Accounting Business of the Year - 2023
Winner - Abundance Global Profitability Leader - 2023
Winner - Entrepreneur’s Institute Crystal Circle Entrepreneur Award - Entrepreneur of the Year 2023
Winner - Entrepreneur’s Institute Crystal Circle Entrepreneur Award - Steel Award 2022
Finalist - Entrepreneur’s Institute Crystal Circle Entrepreneur Award - Spirit Award 2022
Finalist - Abundance Global Profitability Leader - 2022
Nominated Australian CFO Awards - Finance Team of the Year (SME) - 2022
Finalist - Wealth Dynamics Masters Global - 2021
Winner - Wealth Dynamics Masters Asia Pacific Region - 2021
Winner - Abundance Global Abundance Community Spirit 2020
Awarded - B1G1 Business For Good Legacy Maker 2019
Winner - Entrepreneur’s Institute Crystal Circle Entrepreneur Award - Tempo Award 2018
Credentials and Affiliations
Effective Director Certificate by Governance Institute of Australia Ltd
Master Trainer in Wealth Dynamics (one of just a handful in the world)
Bachelor of Business - Management (HRM)
A Quirky Fact
Deborah loves tech and built her own machine learning engine for her group of businesses, which she refers to as her digital twin.
Deborah - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahharris-investedcfo/
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Rache is an indispensable member of our CFO team, taking on the roles of Workflow Manager and fractional CFO. She specialises in finance, accounting, and financial reporting. She is a CPA with a Master’s in Business Administration focusing on Entrepreneurship and Lean Six Sigma. Rache loves to explore how technology can help in finance and she is an expert in designing custom financial reports for clients so they can make better financial decisions. Fun facts, she is also a Google Data Analytics scholar and a registered Yoga Instructor.
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Current Role
As a CFO, Rache best understands the clients’ finance and reporting process and ensures that their needs are delivered, such as, but not limited to, weekly cash flow reports and management reports, to help them understand their financial data. She also helps clients design financial reports in Fathom tailor-fit to the needs of the users. Also a CPA, Rache knows the ins and outs of accounting, bookkeeping, and financial reporting. Having earned a Master’s degree, her skills will definitely help any establishment make better and wiser financial decisions in the workplace.
Ultimate Goal (What gets you out of bed in the morning)
She always believed that giving back to the community, to the society, to the environment, is part of having and developing a growth mindset.
Biggest Career Achievement to Date
On going training for Data Analytics
Masters in Business Administration, focusing on Entrepreneurship and Lean Six Sigma
Any awards
Earned a scholarship with Google on Data Analytics.
Credentials
Masters in Business Administration, focusing on Entrepreneurship and Lean Six Sigma
Certified Public Accountant
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
A Quirky Fact
The flexy elasto-girl of our team, Rache, is a registered Yoga Instructor. She always makes sure to improve her strength, flexibility and balance, not only with her mind and body, but also with numbers!
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Jo Wise is our bookkeeping workflow specialist, bringing structure, consistency and care to how work moves through our bookkeeping team. As a team leader and registered BAS agent, Jo combines practical bookkeeping knowledge with a focus on clear processes, quality and accountability. She helps the team stay organised, meet deadlines and deliver reliable outcomes for clients, while continually looking for ways to make the work flow more smoothly.
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Marlon Jansz
Current Role
Dashboarding and Reporting Specialist
Ultimate Goal (What gets you up in the mornings?
Be the best in what I do
Biggest Career Achievement to Date
Been the Head of Finance for multi million dollar Revenue USA based company
Credentials
ACMA
CGMA
A Quirky Fact About You
I'm a spider man fan
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Leah is a Cultural Ambassador and Executive Assistant to the CEO and CFO, focused on supporting team members and championing team culture. A former English professor with a Master's in ESL, she also manages our learning platform. Her biggest career achievement to date was helping over a hundred families achieve immigration status in English speaking countries through training for English examinations. Leah is dedicated to education and leaving a lasting legacy of service.
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Current Role
Cultural Ambassador - ensuring all team members are supported and cared for and adopt the attitudes, behaviours and beliefs of a world class caring business. Leah also manages the learning platform and is the Executive Assistant to the CEO.
Ultimate Goal
Leah strives to be in the right place at the right time to leave a legacy for her family and community - passing on a life of service for generations to come.
Biggest Career Achievement to Date
As an English Professor, Leah worked with nearly a hundred families over 15 years supporting them to learn English and achieve immigration status so they could improve their lives.
Leah is committed to education and continues this role within Grow CFO ensuring our learning management platform has courses designed to teach our customers how to manage their business and cash flow well.
Credentials
Masters in English as a Second Language
Bachelor of Psychology
A Quirky Fact
Leah could be a police dog as she has a really keen sense of smell…
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Our AI Team | Human Ingenuity Meets Digital Enthusiasm
Our AI developers work alongside our resident digital teammates, Claude and Auri, to make the work smarter and give our people more time for the things that matter: thinking, solving problems and looking after clients.
The developers build the connections and bring ideas to life. Claude and Auri help untangle information, draft, analyse and ask surprisingly useful questions. They’re very much part of the team—just unusually available and suspiciously quiet about whose turn it is to clean the kitchen.
Our humans bring the judgement, care and final say. Our digital colleagues bring tireless enthusiasm, the occasional confident wrong answer and absolutely no interest in the office biscuits.
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Current Role
As a Workflow Manager, Rache best understands the clients’ finance and reporting process and ensures that their needs are delivered, such as, but not limited to, weekly cash flow reports and management reports, to help them understand their financial data. She also helps clients design financial reports in Fathom tailor-fit to the needs of the users. Also a CPA, Rache knows the ins and outs of accounting, bookkeeping, and financial reporting. Having earned a Master’s degree, her skills will definitely help any establishment make better and wiser financial decisions in the workplace.
Ultimate Goal (What gets you out of bed in the morning)
She always believed that giving back to the community, to the society, to the environment, is part of having and developing a growth mindset.
Biggest Career Achievement to Date
On going training for Data Analytics
Masters in Business Administration, focusing on Entrepreneurship and Lean Six Sigma
Any awards
Earned a scholarship with Google on Data Analytics.
Credentials
Masters in Business Administration, focusing on Entrepreneurship and Lean Six Sigma
Certified Public Accountant
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
A Quirky Fact
The flexy elasto-girl of our team, Rache, is a registered Yoga Instructor. She always makes sure to improve her strength, flexibility and balance, not only with her mind and body, but also with numbers!
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Our AI development team brings together AI assistants and agents to streamline operations and drive innovation across our products and services. Their mandate is to build practical AI and technology applications that connect our systems, simplify workflows and free our people to focus on higher-value work, while creating smarter ways to serve our clients.
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Current Role
As a Workflow Manager, Rache best understands the clients’ finance and reporting process and ensures that their needs are delivered, such as, but not limited to, weekly cash flow reports and management reports, to help them understand their financial data. She also helps clients design financial reports in Fathom tailor-fit to the needs of the users. Also a CPA, Rache knows the ins and outs of accounting, bookkeeping, and financial reporting. Having earned a Master’s degree, her skills will definitely help any establishment make better and wiser financial decisions in the workplace.
Ultimate Goal (What gets you out of bed in the morning)
She always believed that giving back to the community, to the society, to the environment, is part of having and developing a growth mindset.
Biggest Career Achievement to Date
On going training for Data Analytics
Masters in Business Administration, focusing on Entrepreneurship and Lean Six Sigma
Any awards
Earned a scholarship with Google on Data Analytics.
Credentials
Masters in Business Administration, focusing on Entrepreneurship and Lean Six Sigma
Certified Public Accountant
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
A Quirky Fact
The flexy elasto-girl of our team, Rache, is a registered Yoga Instructor. She always makes sure to improve her strength, flexibility and balance, not only with her mind and body, but also with numbers!
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Mae is a valued member of our bookkeeping team, bringing care, accuracy and attention to detail to keeping our clients’ financial records in order. She takes pride in getting the day-to-day bookkeeping right, helping clients stay organised and giving our wider team reliable information to work with. Her thorough approach and commitment to quality make her a trusted part of the service we deliver.
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Current Role
As a Workflow Manager, Rache best understands the clients’ finance and reporting process and ensures that their needs are delivered, such as, but not limited to, weekly cash flow reports and management reports, to help them understand their financial data. She also helps clients design financial reports in Fathom tailor-fit to the needs of the users. Also a CPA, Rache knows the ins and outs of accounting, bookkeeping, and financial reporting. Having earned a Master’s degree, her skills will definitely help any establishment make better and wiser financial decisions in the workplace.
Ultimate Goal (What gets you out of bed in the morning)
She always believed that giving back to the community, to the society, to the environment, is part of having and developing a growth mindset.
Biggest Career Achievement to Date
On going training for Data Analytics
Masters in Business Administration, focusing on Entrepreneurship and Lean Six Sigma
Any awards
Earned a scholarship with Google on Data Analytics.
Credentials
Masters in Business Administration, focusing on Entrepreneurship and Lean Six Sigma
Certified Public Accountant
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
A Quirky Fact
The flexy elasto-girl of our team, Rache, is a registered Yoga Instructor. She always makes sure to improve her strength, flexibility and balance, not only with her mind and body, but also with numbers!
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Chan is a management accountant in our CFO team, bringing a focus on financial analysis, reporting and turning the numbers into practical business insights. She supports client onboarding, quality reviews and the documentation of clear, repeatable processes that strengthen how we deliver our services. With a role that embraces AI and smarter ways of working, Marchan helps give our CFO team greater capacity to support clients and their business decisions.
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Current Role
Marchan supports our CFO and bookkeeping teams with management reporting, financial analysis and client onboarding. She helps turn financial data into useful insights and documents the processes that keep delivery consistent.
Her work helps business owners understand their numbers and gives our team more time to focus on helping clients grow profitably.
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Dan works alongside our team as a contract Senior Bookkeeper, helping keep clients’ financial records accurate, organised and up to date. He supports reliable bookkeeping and reporting, giving business owners clearer visibility over their finances and confidence in the numbers behind their decisions.
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Current Role
Dan works alongside our team as a contract Senior Bookkeeper, helping keep clients’ financial records accurate, organised and up to date. He supports reliable bookkeeping and reporting, giving business owners clearer visibility over their finances and confidence in the numbers behind their decisions.
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Dan is a highly skilled senior bookkeeper who works with us as a contractor, bringing valuable expertise and practical know-how to our bookkeeping team. His depth of knowledge helps us work through complex bookkeeping matters, maintain quality financial records and deliver reliable outcomes for our clients.
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Current Role
As a Workflow Manager, Rache best understands the clients’ finance and reporting process and ensures that their needs are delivered, such as, but not limited to, weekly cash flow reports and management reports, to help them understand their financial data. She also helps clients design financial reports in Fathom tailor-fit to the needs of the users. Also a CPA, Rache knows the ins and outs of accounting, bookkeeping, and financial reporting. Having earned a Master’s degree, her skills will definitely help any establishment make better and wiser financial decisions in the workplace.
Ultimate Goal (What gets you out of bed in the morning)
She always believed that giving back to the community, to the society, to the environment, is part of having and developing a growth mindset.
Biggest Career Achievement to Date
On going training for Data Analytics
Masters in Business Administration, focusing on Entrepreneurship and Lean Six Sigma
Any awards
Earned a scholarship with Google on Data Analytics.
Credentials
Masters in Business Administration, focusing on Entrepreneurship and Lean Six Sigma
Certified Public Accountant
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
A Quirky Fact
The flexy elasto-girl of our team, Rache, is a registered Yoga Instructor. She always makes sure to improve her strength, flexibility and balance, not only with her mind and body, but also with numbers!
Join Our Team
Join our team at GrowCFO and be part of a dynamic group dedicated to making a positive impact! We’re always on the lookout for passionate individuals who share our vision for people, planet, and profit. If you’re ready to take the next step in your career, please fill out the form below and submit your resume. We can’t wait to hear from you!