Leandro D'Elia is a Senior Partner and fractional CFO at Eightx. He joined in 2022 as one of the firm's first three people, originally as VP of Finance, when, as he puts it, "I was the entire team. I was the financial analyst, the VP, and the CFO." Today he runs CFO engagements for ecommerce and CPG brands doing $5M to $100M a year.
What he is known for is turnarounds. Founders come to him when the business is bleeding, and they leave the engagement profitable. His own framing: "In some cases we have to go a step backwards and say, okay, first we need to be profitable, because we're not making money. Then it's all about creating a roadmap to the final goal." He has helped clients reach 2.3x revenue, multiply net income 5x, and, most often, get a company that was losing money to start making it.
Before Eightx, Leandro ran FP&A at Galileo Technologies, an Argentine industrial group. He built the finance function essentially from scratch (starting as just himself and the CFO, ending with a team running consolidated and entity-level reporting across more than five operating companies, including subsidiaries in Brazil and the United States) and prepared the group for a Wall Street IPO. He was the main point of contact with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, and moved the audit from KPMG to BDO. The IPO was shelved when the pandemic hit, but the deck was ready to go.
Earlier, he spent years at YPF, Argentina's NYSE-listed oil and gas major, as a market and economy analyst in the downstream division's operational-planning department. He managed the company's entire pricing basket (import and export parity, domestic prices) and tracked the global energy market through Bloomberg and Reuters. He started there as a refinery intern, working on plant commissioning, and even pitched in during a major fire and a city flood. Before that he interned at Tenaris, the global seamless-pipe maker, and taught financial administration and marketing as a university assistant professor.
He holds an MBA from a leading Argentinian business school (with partnerships across MIT, Northwestern and Europe) and an Industrial Engineering degree from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. In 2026 he became a co-author of Results on Repeat, a collaborative book on building businesses that deliver predictable results through systems, delegation and structure.
He was born in Argentina and has lived there his whole life. The prizes he is proudest of were not for grades. They were for being the best teammate, mostly in sport.
