ROSE FaaS 2025 Conference

Navigating Policy Shifts and Scaling Your Business with Confidence

Our 2025 event brought together government contractors, nonprofits, and growth-focused businesses for an afternoon packed with insights on financial strategy, industry trends, and AI-driven solutions. Held on May 19, 2025, at the Canopy by Hilton in Pike & Rose, it was a powerful gathering of decision-makers and innovators.


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Content Sessions


1:00 PM - 4:30 PM


Session 1


The Strategic CFO Playbook: Scaling Financial Leadership from Start-up to $100M+

Speaker:Ted Rose, President, CEO, Founder, Rose Financial Solutions


  • Why is a Modern Finance Department Required to Support Corporate Growth?
  • What are the Five Pillars of Modern Finance?
  • How Will the Worldwide Shift from Labor Arbitrage to Automation Arbitrage Change How We Work?
  • What are the Best AI Use Cases Today and How Do I Get to 85% Automation?
  • What Expertise is Required to Run a Modern Finance Organization?
  • Keep the Trains Running On Time While Driving Business Growth
  • What Data Does Leadership Need to Scale to $100M+?


Harnessing the Power of LinkedIn for Contractors…and others! 

Speaker:Mark Amtower, Consultant, GovCon Influencer, Strategist, Founder, Amtower & Company

  • Utilizing LinkedIn to Build Your Thought Leadership
  • Refining Your Marketing Strategy to Win Federal Contracts
  • Impact of the Trump Administration, DOGE, and AI on Your Marketing


Navigating M&A Trends in Government Contracting

Moderator:
  • Wallace Angel, VP, Finance and Accounting, Client CFO, Rose Financial Solutions

Featured Panelists:
  • Cedric A. Powell, Partner, Private Equity, M&A, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • Matthew Brom, Investment Banker, G Squared Capital Partners


Topics:

  • SBA Rules Changes
  • Trump Administration’s Focus
  • Hot Areas for M&A
  • Positioning for Sale in the Next Few Years
  • Emerging Trends in 2025


AI and Automation Technologies Available Today

Speaker: Kimberly A. Kuchman, VP, Transformations and Product, Rose Financial Solutions


Topics:

  • AI Enabling Your Finance and Accounting Information Securely
  • Financial Management Made Easy
  • Building and Maintaining Complete Datasets
  • New System of Engagement Benefits


Session 2


Impact of the Trump Administration on Growing Businesses

Speaker: Eric Coffie, The GovCon Giant, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, GovCon Giants


Topics:

  • Proposal Strategies in the Current Administration
  • Impact of the Trump Administration
  • Landing and Expanding Within Federal Agencies
  • Opportunities for Small to Mid-Sized Businesses


Scaling Finance & Accounting Infrastructure

Moderator:


Featured Panelists:

  • Jeffrey F. Brown, President, Founder, XCAL Shooting Sports and Fitness
  • Wilson Geong, Vice President, Finance and Administration, Prison Fellowship International


Topics:

  • How Has Your Use of Data and KPIs Evolved As You've Scaled?
  • How Has Your Tech Stack, Systems and Technical Expertise Changed Based On Growth?
  • How Has Your Industry Impacted Your Financial System Design?
  • How Has the CFO's Role Changed Over Time?


The Pillars of Financial Management Are the Pillars of Corporate Growth 

Speaker: Ted Rose, President, CEO, Founder, Rose Financial Solutions
  • Which of the Financial Pillars Do You Currently Prioritize?
  • People, Process, Technology, Organization, and Data
  • How to Build Capabilities Related to the Remaining Financial Pillars?
  • Who's Driving Your Change Management?
  • How to Guarantee a Steady Flow of Financial Information to Leadership to Support Decision Making?


Reception and Networking


4:30 PM - 6:30 PM


  • Connect with Executives and Industry Experts



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The next five years will bring more change than we’ve witnessed in the last 20 years. Companies are searching for ways to prepare for this change while future proofing their back offices. Finance as a Service and Easby, your CFO Co-Pilot, can support your growth and success from startup to exit.

Why Attend?

✔ Unlock the Strategic CFO Playbook

✔ Discover the Five Pillars of Modern Finance

✔ Expand Data-Driven Decision-Making Capabilities

✔ Build a Finance Infrastructure That Scales

✔ Hear from Real Growth Leaders

✔ Discover Real AI and Automation Capabilities

✔ Prepare for the Shift from Labor Arbitrage to Automation Arbitrage

✔ Leverage the Latest in Finance Technology

✔ Position Your Company for a Lucrative Exit

✔ Navigate the Trump Administration’s Impact

✔ Capitalize on LinkedIn for Growth

✔ Expand Your Network


Thank You to Our Business Partners

By Ted Rose September 2, 2026
By TED ROSE , ROSE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS
By Ted Rose September 1, 2026
Single-source approach brings contract administration, project controls and billing, indirect rate management, and DCAA/GovCon audit readiness under one operating model NORTH BETHESDA, MD — September 1, 2026 — ROSE Financial Solutions (“ROSE”) today announced the launch of its GovCon Financial Advisory solution , an integrated offering designed to help government contractors manage critical financial and contract administration functions as they grow. The solution brings contract administration, project controls and billing, indirect rate management, and DCAA/GovCon audit readiness under one relationship, backed by 30 years of GovCon experience and supported by the company's Easby platform. ROSE will demonstrate how government contractors can evaluate their financial readiness during its September 18 webinar, “ Are You Ready for Your Next Government Contract? ” The session will feature Ted Rose, Kimberly Kuchman, and Wally Angel and will explore the financial and operational capabilities contractors should evaluate as they prepare for larger and more complex government contracts. In government contracting, compliance is not a business preference. It is a condition of holding the contract. Indirect rate management, DCAA-compliant timekeeping, incurred cost submissions, and audit readiness are the price of doing the work. Yet in most contractors, the functions that carry that compliance live in separate hands. Contract administration sits with one person, project controls and billing with another, the accounting system with a third. The cost of that fragmentation is rarely the software. It is the gaps between the pieces: the reconciliation work, the indirect rate surprises, the audit scramble when the pieces do not line up. ROSE now closes those gaps with one source. The GovCon Financial Advisory solution includes: Contract administration Project controls and billing Indirect rate management and modeling DCAA/GovCon audit readiness All of it is supported by Easby , ROSE's enterprise-grade, AI-enabled platform. Easby is an agentic AI control layer that sits above your accounting system and enforces the workflows that keep a GovCon compliant and scalable. It integrates with the accounting systems GovCon finance teams already run, including QuickBooks Online, PROCAS, Unanet, and Deltek Costpoint. Your accounting software remains your system of record. Easby has followed a 20-year path of proven automation: rules-based workflow since 2005, machine learning since 2014, generative AI in 2025, and agentic AI in 2026 , added to workflows that already work rather than built from scratch. The solution is designed to meet a contractor where it is, from a company's first federal contract through significant scale. It produces structured financial intelligence and improves financial infrastructure maturity as the business grows, at 30 to 60 percent less cost than building the same capability internally. "In government contracting, compliance is not a project you finish. It is a posture you operate in," said Ted Rose, Founder and CEO of ROSE Financial Solutions. "For 30 years our GovCon clients haven’t worried about failing an audit, and that record comes from infrastructure, not luck. What we are giving contractors now is a single source for work that used to be spread across separate people, separate tools, and separate budget line. That is how you scale a GovCon without your finance function becoming the constraint that slows you down." About ROSE Financial Solutions ROSE Financial Solutions is a Finance as a Service (FaaS) firm that builds and operates financial infrastructure for growing organizations, including founder-led companies, government contractors, nonprofits, and project-based professional services firms. ROSE's proprietary platform, Easby, is an agentic AI operating and intelligence layer built on Appian. Learn more at rosefinancial.com .

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