Performance Optimization
Identify opportunities to grow revenue, reduce costs, and improve the bottom line through detailed financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and performance strategies built around informed business decisions.
Make stronger financial decisions with advisory services built for privately owned, family-run, and growing businesses. Magnified Consulting helps leaders improve cash flow, control costs, evaluate investments, plan capital decisions, and build lasting business value. With decades of real-world experience and measurable success in complex transactions, our team turns financial insight into practical strategies for profitable growth.

Financial advisory solutions that improve cash flow, profitability, investment decisions, valuation, and long-term business value.
Identify opportunities to grow revenue, reduce costs, and improve the bottom line through detailed financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and performance strategies built around informed business decisions.
Strengthen financial stability with practical cash flow management, budgeting support, and forward-looking planning that helps leadership anticipate needs, reduce pressure, and make confident operating decisions.
Assess financial health, uncover cost-saving opportunities, and create strategies to maximize profitability while building a stronger foundation for sustainable growth and successful scaling.
Evaluate investment opportunities, capital structures, and funding decisions with experienced guidance designed to help businesses engage investors, stakeholders, and lenders with confidence.
Understand company value before investor partnerships, ownership transitions, mergers, or acquisitions with advisory support that clarifies financial position and strengthens negotiation readiness.
Navigate expansion, acquisition, partnership, and exit opportunities with strategic guidance on valuation, deal structure, capital planning, and smooth business transitions.

We begin by learning your ownership goals, financial pressures, operating model, and growth plans. This creates a practical advisory foundation tied to your company’s stage, industry, family priorities, and long-term business value.
Our advisory work is built around measurable performance, stronger decisions, and lasting business value.
Magnified Consulting combines financial insight, real-world transaction experience, and personal advisory support.
Decades of hands-on experience guide practical decisions for complex business and financial challenges.
Strategies are customized for your goals, industry, ownership structure, and financial realities.
The team understands privately owned and family-run businesses across the Carolinas and Southeast markets.
Support continues beyond recommendations, helping leaders implement decisions and stay accountable over time.
Experienced partners advising ambitious business owners.

Partner
Mark Elender is a seasoned business consulting Partner at Magnified Consulting, bringing decades of diverse, real-world experience to privately owned and family-run businesses across the Carolinas and beyond. With a proven track record that includes involvement in over $2.5 billion in mergers and acquisitions and advising on $300 million in large capital purchasing decisions, Mark specializes in helping businesses achieve sustainable growth, improved efficiency, and successful transitions. Serving clients in Charlotte, Columbia, Greenville, and surrounding regions, he takes a personalized approach to every engagement, crafting tailored strategies that address each client's unique challenges and goals. Mark is deeply committed to delivering measurable results and providing the long-term mentorship that empowers business owners to build lasting value and achieve new levels of profitability.

Partner
Amanda Gurski is a dynamic Partner at Magnified Consulting with extensive experience helping small and medium-sized businesses across the Southeast thrive in competitive markets. She brings a client-focused mindset and a deep understanding of the unique challenges faced by privately owned and family-run businesses in industries such as Manufacturing, Retail, Professional Services, and Real Estate. Amanda is instrumental in delivering tailored consulting solutions that drive efficiency, reduce operational costs, and increase profitability. Her commitment to long-term mentorship ensures that clients receive ongoing support well beyond the initial engagement. Serving businesses in Charlotte, Charleston SC, Savannah, Myrtle Beach, and surrounding areas, Amanda is dedicated to helping business owners amplify performance and build sustainable, lasting success.

Partner
Brian Elender is an accomplished Partner at Magnified Consulting, leveraging decades of diverse business experience to guide privately owned and family-run businesses toward exceptional growth and operational excellence. With deep expertise in capital strategy, Brian has contributed to facilitating $12 million in capital spending for high-growth startups and advising on major financial decisions that drive long-term value. He works closely with businesses generating over $10 million in revenue across industries including Construction, Technology, and Transportation, serving clients throughout Charlotte, Columbia, Greenville, and the greater Southeast. Brian is passionate about crafting innovative, customized solutions that help clients reduce risks, optimize performance, and achieve successful business transitions — ensuring every strategy is aligned with both immediate goals and long-term vision.
A financial advisory company helps business owners understand financial performance, improve cash flow, control costs, evaluate investment decisions, and plan for growth or transition. Magnified Consulting focuses on practical business outcomes, including budgeting, forecasting, profitability improvement, capital strategy, valuation support, and risk reduction. The goal is to turn financial data into clear decisions that strengthen long-term business value.
Connect with our team for tailored financial guidance.
Magnified Consulting advises growing businesses across key Southeast markets and surrounding regions.
6 Markets
Service Area
$10M+ Revenue
Client Profile
Decades
Experience
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Involvement in major business transactions.
Guidance for high-value purchasing decisions.
Practical experience across diverse industries.
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