Wednesday / People
People
Two operators. One firm. A national network behind them.
Opening
Who we are
Wednesday is a small firm by design. Two principals, each one of whom has built, run, and sold businesses — and who worked with their hands before they ever wrote a strategy. A network of specialists, brokers, and advisors behind them, brought in when the work calls for it.
You won't be handed off to an associate. You won't be working through a project manager who reports to a partner you never meet. The people you talk to on your ninety-minute call are the people who will be in your shop, in your numbers, at your table through every phase of the engagement.
That's not how most consulting firms work. It's how this one does.
Nic Mattson
Chief Executive Officer
LinkedInNic Mattson spent his late teens and early twenties with his boots on the ground. He climbed towers for AT&T — the ones that communications and broadcasting depend on, the ones that go up when the weather's bad and come down when it's worse. He installed cabinets for a year, learning what it takes to deliver work that a customer will look at every day for a decade. He ran an electrical crew as foreman for two years, which is the job where you stop being responsible only for your own work and start being responsible for the work, safety, and livelihood of the men alongside you.
Then he built a media company. Over fifteen years as CEO, he grew a print and digital publishing business ten times over — from humble beginnings to three and a half million dollars in annual revenue, across multiple cities and counties in California. He personally managed seven mergers and acquisitions in the first five years of his leadership, which is a different kind of education than any business school offers: the kind where you learn what makes an operator's business worth buying, what makes one worth walking away from, and what makes one worth fighting for.
Nic serves on boards of local nonprofits and chambers of commerce. He spent a career learning that sales, marketing, negotiation, operations, and systems all come down to understanding people — that we are, all of us, in the people business at the end of the day.
At Wednesday, Nic is the operator lens.** He's sat in the chair your owner sits in. He knows what the weight feels like. He knows what makes a business worth continuing, and what has to change before it can be handed off well.
Patrick Kilts
Chief Financial Officer
LinkedInBefore the MBA, before the CFO roles, before the capital raises and ERP integrations, Patrick Kilts worked general contracting and remodels. He was on jobsites. He managed subs. He dealt with change orders and the gap between what the customer wanted and what the crew actually built.
He's also a former U.S. Marine platoon leader. The discipline shows up in how he runs engagements — mission-focused, clear on what has to be done, unwilling to leave work half-finished.
After the Marines and the jobsites came the finance career. Patrick has been the CFO or senior financial leader at companies ranging from twenty-five-million-dollar niche manufacturers to six-hundred-million-dollar multi-location operators. At Carlisle Brake & Friction, he cut month-end close from twelve days to four. At Concord Road Equipment he cut direct labor costs by twenty-five percent. At NSL Analytical Services, he boosted EBITDA margin by ten points.
As Managing Partner of Northshore Consulting, Patrick raised more than fifty million dollars in capital, led multiple ERP implementations, and conducted due diligence for acquisitions. He holds an MBA and a BBA in finance from Cleveland State University.
At Wednesday, Patrick is the numbers lens.** He can sit across from a set of books and tell the owner what they actually say — what the balance sheet is hiding, which controls will hold up in due diligence eighteen months from now.
Together
How we work together
Nic reads the owner. Patrick reads the business. Together they see it whole.
Nic is the operator-CEO who has sat in your chair and knows what the weight of the business feels like. He spent a career in sales and operations and understands that every business decision is finally a people decision. Patrick is the financial and process discipline — the former Marine, the MBA, the CFO who has turned around companies ten times the size of most of Wednesday's clients — who can tell an owner what the numbers actually say and what the systems actually need.
On an engagement, Nic and Patrick walk the shop on day one, either on site or virtually. Together, they listen to the owner talk about the business the way it lives in his head. Patrick leads the financial diagnosis, assisting in the design of the operational dashboard metrics, structuring Phase Two's knowledge base around what a future buyer or successor will actually need to see, and quarterbacking the financial side of any Phase Three transaction.
Our two lenses are complementary. An owner gets both, on every engagement, by design, with our team of specialists and experts in their fields to ensure nothing is ignored or wasted.
The network
Who else is on the team
Wednesday is a small firm that runs large engagements by bringing in specialists when the work calls for them. Our network includes:
- Trusted national brokers who handle Phase Three transactions when the business is ready to sell.
- HR consultants and operational specialists who lead deep-dive work in Phase Two — workforce assessment, compensation structures, organizational design.
- Tax and accounting partners who coordinate with the client's existing CPA and bring specialized expertise when the transaction requires it (ESOPs, complex succession, multi-state operations).
- Legal counsel for transaction structuring, regulatory review, and succession architecture.
- Sector specialists — in manufacturing, trades, specialty retail, professional services — brought in for engagements where their specific knowledge adds leverage.
We don't bill for specialists we don't use. When they're needed, we coordinate them. You work with Wednesday. Wednesday works with the network. Nothing falls through the seams.
Geography
Where we are
Wednesday is based in Wyoming, with principals in California and Ohio. The firm is structured for national reach by design — we travel to clients, we meet on their floors, and we pull specialists from wherever the best fit is. Not because we have to, but because the best advisor for your business is rarely the one closest to your zip code.
The three-phase assessment always begins in person when possible. After that, the engagement runs in whatever rhythm serves the work — on-site visits when the work benefits from presence, remote collaboration when it doesn't, and the cadence of a partnership that respects your time as much as the work demands ours.
Begin Here
Every Wednesday engagement starts with a ninety-minute conversation with Nic or Patrick. Directly. No intake coordinator, no screening call.