Howard Lau

Howard Lau, MBA, currently serves as Fractional CFO at COHEZION.ai, providing strategy and operations advisory since April 2024. Prior to this, Howard held the position of Vice President of Finance at Ambient.ai from 2021 to March 2024, focusing on financial leadership in a SaaS AI environment. From 2017 to 2021, Howard was Vice President of Finance at Insightly, overseeing finance, accounting, and operations. Previous roles include Senior Finance Leader at Intuit, Head of Finance at Boardwalktech, Inc., and Senior Finance Deal Lead at Cisco, where expertise in mergers and acquisitions was developed. Earlier in the career, Howard served as Director at Duff & Phelps, leading the M&A Group, and as Senior Consultant at Hemming Morse, Inc., providing strategy consulting on litigation matters. Educational credentials include a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Business Administration in Strategy and Finance from Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management.