Our Experience
Experience Behind the Advice.
Luki Consulting is a network of professionals with backgrounds in corporate finance, enterprise systems, technology, software development, manufacturing and operations.
Our experience comes from two places: senior roles inside large corporate environments, and building and operating businesses ourselves.
Inside the enterprise
Finance, reporting & enterprise systems
Hands on the code
Software built and run for real users
On the factory floor
Manufacturing & operations
Owners, not just advisors
Businesses we built ourselves
Founder
Eric Caldwell
A career that moved from writing the software to leading the teams and budgets behind it — with a business of his own along the way. That mix is why our advice holds up in the boardroom and in production.
A professional progression
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Software entrepreneurship
Building software for real users
Designed, developed, launched and operated a custom PHP-based SaaS platform for college recruiting — the full cycle of putting an application in front of real users and keeping it running.
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Business ownership & development
Building and running a business
Helped establish and operate a family-owned machine-tool business, and built the technology behind it: a custom PHP website with database-driven machinery listings, administrative tools for managing inventory, and integrated WordPress publishing. An early adopter of Google AdWords to market the business.
camachinetools.comEarly Google AdWords adopter -
Enterprise software development
Enterprise software in production
At Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits, developed a production PHP-based financial planning and analysis application used across multiple business teams — doing the hands-on frontend development and, in the system’s earlier stages, establishing and managing its Apache server infrastructure.
FP&A application in productionMultiple business teams served -
Technology & analytics leadership
Leading technology and analytics
Progressed into leadership of corporate reporting, business systems and technology — accountable for budgets, vendor decisions, strategy and enterprise-wide initiatives, across SQL, BI, ERP, finance and operational reporting.
5 direct reports12-person team oversightBudgets · vendors · strategy
Experience across industries
The sectors our network knows from the inside.
Experience gained by the people in our professional network, across some of the most demanding operating environments there are.
Enterprise distribution
Planning, reporting and BI at multi-billion-dollar scale.
Corporate finance
FP&A, forecasting and decision support for leadership.
Aerospace & defense
Mission-critical backend systems built to exacting standards.
Global manufacturing
ERP, data and integration through growth and acquisition.
Supply chain & logistics
Operations and visibility across borders.
Enterprise software & business systems
Applications and platforms used by real business teams.
Our experts have worked for and alongside
Our professional network
The right specialists, brought in when they matter.
Every engagement is led by a senior partner. When the work calls for deeper expertise — corporate finance, supply chain, enterprise systems or software engineering — we bring experienced specialists from our network onto the team, and only for as long as they add value.
Put Our Experience to Work.
Tell us the decision or project in front of you. A partner replies within 72 hours.