About Us

Fyntra is led by Anthony A. O’Brien, an operator who spent thirty years running sales, lending, and capital-markets organizations before he began rebuilding them for others. Fyntra finds where revenue leaks between a lead and a close and installs the discipline to stop it. Not advice from the sidelines. We rebuild the execution layer with your team until it holds.

Founded Spinnaker Partners in 1989. Member of the PSE, CBOE, and NYSE.

About Us

The Operating System Behind Revenue That Actually Lands

Most companies don’t have a lead problem. They have an execution problem. Fyntra identifies where revenue leaks between lead and close, then installs the discipline to stop it.

Prudential-Bache Securities

Senior Vice President and head of the bond desk, leading 15 traders selling debt to institutional buyers.

Glacial Energy

Built and scaled a 400-person field sales force across 13 deregulated states, driving $30M a month.

RealEstateLender.com

Built a top 10 national commercial lender operating across 40 states.

Spinnaker Partners

Ran a proprietary hedge fund for 16 years, through every market cycle.

Three Decades. Three Industries. The Same Leaks.

Anthony built a 400-rep sales force in the deregulated energy sector, founded a top-10 national lender in real estate finance, and ran a proprietary fund through every market cycle. Three industries, three products, and the same failure every time: not a shortage of demand, but revenue leaking between a lead and a close. That is why Fyntra does not sort companies by industry. The leak is the same wherever deals are dying.

Built for Growth-Stage B2B Companies

We work with companies generating between $5M and $50M in revenue that have established sales teams and complex sales cycles.

Our Approach

How Fyntra Operates

Every engagement starts with the evidence, then moves into execution.

Diagnostic Before Prescription

Understand the problem before recommending a solution.

Built around the five domains of The O’Brien Method.

Numbers Before Narrative

Data drives decisions, not assumptions.

Grounded in 30+ years of operator experience, 400+ salespeople led, and $30M/mo revenue scaled.

Outcomes Before Activity

Focus on measurable results, not busy work.

The 90-Day Capability Build installs the operating rhythm, coaching, and discipline to execute.

Meet the Founder

The Operator Behind the Method

Anthony A. O’Brien

Managing Partner & Chief Strategy Officer

Tony O’Brien is a senior operator with three decades of experience building and scaling sales and operations organizations across complex, regulated markets. At Fyntra, he helps leaders fix the operating system beneath the pipeline, the discipline that determines whether the year hits its number, and embeds AI where it produces verifiable operating leverage.

What I Do

I work with founders, owners, and executive teams who need their organizations to perform more like the business they intend to run. My focus is the operating spine, the place where strategy, sales, and execution either compound or leak.

At Fyntra, that work increasingly involves embedding AI to produce a verifiable outcome: faster lead capture, sharper qualification, more disciplined follow-up, and forecasts that leadership can actually plan against. The tools are new. The operating principles are not.

Built and scaled a 400-person sales organization.
Recruited, trained, and led a national sales force across 13 deregulated energy markets at Glacial Energy. Drove monthly revenue to $30M and institutionalized the qualification and follow-up disciplines that made the growth repeatable.
Founded and ran a proprietary hedge fund for 19 years.
Spinnaker Partners. Capital allocation, risk discipline, and the operational rigor required to survive multiple market cycles.
Built a top 10 commercial lender from scratch.
Established RealEstateLender.com and grew it into one of the country’s leading commercial lending platforms. Designed the channel strategy, the underwriting cadence, and the team to execute it.
Led go-to-market for an energy brand into the C&I segment.
As Managing Director of SFE/FE Energy, a Summitt Energy subsidiary, I positioned the brand into the Commercial & Industrial segment and built a results-driven sales organization from the ground up.
Diagnostic before prescription. Numbers before narrative. Outcomes before activity. I work best with leaders who want a partner willing to challenge assumptions and stress-test the plan, not validate it. My measure of a successful engagement is whether the organization can sustain the gains after I step back.
2026
The O’Brien Method

Why most mid-market B2B companies don’t have a strategy problem — they have a capability problem. And how to fix it.

Build an AI Ready Business: The Transformation Playbook
A practitioner’s framework for operationalizing AI inside organizations that already have customers, revenue, and inertia to manage.
2025
Artificial Intelligence — Navigating the Future of Business and Society

A leadership-level view of where AI creates durable advantage and where it does not.

Comprehensive Guide to Private Money Markets — Second Edition

Updated to reflect current interest-rate dynamics and the evolving private-capital business model.

2021
Comprehensive Guide to Private Money Markets (Bestseller)
The mechanics, risks, and discipline of private capital.

Meet the Founder

The Operator Behind the Method

Anthony A. O’Brien

Managing Partner & Chief Strategy Officer

Anthony A. O’Brien has spent three decades building revenue engines in markets that punish sloppy execution — energy, finance, and real estate — where the sales cycle is complex, the channel is difficult to build, and the regulatory landscape leaves no room for guesswork. At Glacial Energy he recruited, trained, and led a 400-person field sales force across 13 deregulated states, driving monthly revenue past $30 million. He founded Spinnaker Partners, a proprietary hedge fund, and ran it for 19 years, allocating capital across multiple market cycles. He built Real Estate Lender into one of the country’s top commercial lenders, and as Managing Director of SFE/FE Energy led go-to-market for an energy brand in the Commercial & Industrial segment. His career began on the capital side in equities and credit, including Senior Vice President at Prudential-Bache Securities.

Across every one of those businesses — different industry, different decade, different team — the same pattern held: the companies that scaled were the ones who could see what was actually happening inside the machine, measure where it was breaking, and fix it. That conviction is the foundation of Fyntra. He works best with operators who want a partner willing to challenge their assumptions and stress-test the plan, not validate it. He lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Published Books

The O'Brien Method: A Field Guide to the Five Capability Gaps Stalling B2B Growth - Book Cover
The O’Brien Method
The Operator's Edge: Judgment, Risk, and Discipline of Lasting - Book Cover
The Operator’s Edge
AI Won't Fix It - Book Cover
AI Won’t Fix It
Comprehensive Guide to Private Money Markets (Second Edition) - Book Cover
Comprehensive Guide to Private Money Markets

The Team Behind the Work

An operator is only as good as the discipline behind the delivery. Two people keep Fyntra’s engagements on schedule, secure, and reliable.

Sydney Franklin

Director of Operations

Madison Nelson

Head of Technical Operations

Start With a Diagnostic.

A 30-minute strategy call to determine whether the Fyntra Diagnostic is the right starting point for your business. No proposal volley. No pressure.