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Board · Finance · Deals · Strategy

Advice for Indonesian businesses built to last.

FinEngine works with owners, boards and investors of established, offline businesses in Indonesia — healthcare in particular — on the decisions that compound: governance, capital, transactions, and the slow work of building a position competitors can’t easily copy.

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What we do

Four kinds of work, one standard: decisions that hold up.

Board advisory & governance

Independent board seats, board facilitation, investor relations and board-pack preparation. Governance that fits founder-led and family businesses rather than a template.

Deals & transactions

Buy- and sell-side support for SMB acquisitions and divestments. Deal structures built around what the buyer and seller actually need, including cross-border tax considerations.

Financial leadership

Fractional or interim CFO work, fundraising, budgeting and operational planning, capital project modelling, and rebuilding a finance function that has outgrown itself.

Strategy & regulatory positioning

Growth strategy for businesses with real operations, positioning within Indonesia’s regulatory landscape, and putting technology — AI included — to work on actual operating problems.

What we’re not

  • Online marketing or growth-hacking specialists.
  • A route to 10× revenue by next quarter.
  • Advisors who need you to sell to get paid.

We prefer the boring, valuable work: governance that holds up, economics that hold up, and defensible positions built over years. We have operated in the Indonesian market for more than a decade, and that is the lens we bring.

Engagement

How we engage

Scope follows the problem. Most work starts small and grows only if it should.

  1. Single deliverable

    Board-meeting preparation, a capital project model, a deal-structure review.

  2. Project

    Strategy projects, fundraising, an acquisition or divestment from start to close.

  3. Part-time

    Fractional CFO, budgeting and operational planning, internal audit process.

  4. Interim

    Interim CFO through a transition, or a remap of the finance function.

Who you work with

Alex Knecht

Founder & Principal

“I back founders I like and spend time with. I try to be useful when they face hard decisions, otherwise stay out of their way — and I never push to sell unless they want an exit.”

  • Co-owner and operator of Padma Medical Group, Kalpa Health and Narawangsa Villas, through PT Fin Engine Indonesia and US holding company Fin Engine Holdings.
  • More than ten years as CFO, at Bali Seafood and North Atlantic Inc. Trained at Nestlé USA, with earlier work in renewable-energy project development and consumer goods in Indonesia.
  • Board seats at six privately held companies, two of them current.
  • Board roles at three non-profits.
  • Has closed transactions as both advisor and principal, with particular depth in cross-border tax structuring, Indonesian regulatory positioning, and deal structures built for a specific buyer and seller.
  • Angel investor in more than twenty companies across several countries.

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A short note on the business and the decision in front of you is the best place to start.

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