Meet Lou Perugini
Lou Perugini is a former CFO with deep expertise in cloud economics, FinOps, and business transformation. Lou spent six years at AWS helping Fortune 500 CFOs and CIOs align cloud strategy with business outcomes, build high-confidence business cases, and govern cloud as a business asset.
He now works with scaling tech companies on cloud cost optimization, business case
validation, and executive advisory or fractional CFO/COO roles.
Projects
Business Case Validation
FinOps Advisory
Cloud Strategy & Governance
Interim or Fractional CFO/COO Support
Explore the Solutions
I’d welcome the chance to explore how I could help accelerate outcomes, improve cloud cost efficiency, and provide additional executive capacity where needed.
Strategic Deal Advisory
Clients
We believe every client is a valuable, long-term partner.
Financial Services & Insurance
Global Asset Manager: Designed a FinOps and governance framework, identified $25M in potential savings, and delivered a roadmap to strengthen cost accountability.
Global Insurer: Built the business case and migration plan for an all-in cloud strategy, advised on sequencing to reduce disruption, and supported board-level presentations. Conducted a FinOps maturity assessment and guided resource planning.
Global Capital Finance Company: Created a business case to migrate a proprietary software platform to cloud, aligning with long-term cost and agility objectives.
Large Enterprise Technology Provider (Financial Division): Collaborated with the CFO team to close data centers, migrate workloads to cloud, and modernize finance operations.
Transportation, Energy & Industrials
Global Logistics Leader: Designed an IT chargeback model leveraging the TBM framework, enhanced cloud tagging standards, and supported the CTO’s vendor RFI process.
Energy Supermajor: Built the business case and execution plan for an all-in migration to cloud.
Integrated Oil & Gas Company: Completed an on-premises VMware assessment with cloud cost comparisons for presentation to the board of directors.
Global Industrial & Technology Conglomerate: Partnered with the CFO to evaluate balance sheet write-offs, cash flow, and EBITDA impacts of cloud migration, and prepared board-ready financial models.
Technology & Software
Cloud-Native SaaS Company: Established project accounting and FinOps practices to improve visibility into product profitability.
Enterprise SaaS Software Provider: Modeled the financial impact of cloud cost optimization initiatives on revenue, cash flow, and EBITDA.
Global Software & Analytics Company: Built the case to migrate multiple data centers, designed a cloud-based disaster recovery solution, and ran a proof of concept for big data clusters using spot instances.
Enterprise Technology Vendor: Partnered with the CFO team on data center closure planning, migration to cloud, and finance transformation opportunities.
Media & Telecommunications
Global Telecom Provider: Created a business case and migration plan to move all back-office systems to cloud.
International Media Group: Conducted a five-year post-mortem on an original cloud business case, then built a forward-looking plan to capture new value.
The Perfect Customer Experience
"Lou is a Rosetta stone, enabling the translation of cloud technologies to financial value."
Joe Daly
The FinOps
Foundation
"Lou built out the global CFO engagement strategy for AWS, and coached hundreds of Sales leaders across the globe on how to tap into the CFO room of the house. He helped numerous teams identify key account entry points, helped develop communication and executive relationship management strategy, and dived deep with key customers to drive wins for AWS in competitive scenarios."
Zehra SyedaSarwat
Global Head CX Strategy
and Insights
"Lou is certainly one of the best all around business and financial people that I have worked with in my career."
Rick Hawkins
ConvergeOne