Our Team

Meet the Phobos Finance Team

Phobos Finance provides outsourced accounting and controller services for U.S. founder-led companies that have outgrown basic bookkeeping but aren't ready to build a full in-house finance team. The firm combines disciplined monthly bookkeeping and close with controller-level review and CFO-caliber reporting — bookkeeping to CFO-level guidance, without the overhead.

Our Team

The team behind Phobos Finance

Founder-led, operator-run — the people responsible for your books answer to you directly.

Portrait of Jonathan Caras, Chief Executive Officer at Phobos Finance

Jonathan Caras

Chief Executive Officer

Jonathan is a technologist and operator with 18+ years building and scaling companies. He co-founded Glide, a video-messaging platform that reached over 20 million devices worldwide, serving in both CTO and COO roles leading its Jerusalem-based team. He has since worked across blockchain and financial technology ventures. At Phobos Finance, Jonathan sets strategic direction and leads capital and growth.

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Portrait of Carla Hamoy, Chief Operating Officer at Phobos Finance

Carla Hamoy

Chief Operating Officer

Carla brings an operations background from Glide and Wristcam, where she built support systems and processes from the ground up and is Zendesk Admin certified. At Phobos Finance, she leads day-to-day operations, client onboarding, and delivery coordination.

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Portrait of Michael Belote, Managing Director at Phobos Finance

Michael Belote

Managing Director

Michael holds a Master's in Accounting and brings experience across public accounting, private equity, and financial analysis. He leads client delivery, controller review, and financial advisory at Phobos Finance — including work that helped a growing business reduce monthly cash burn from approximately $650,000 to approximately $290,000 while managing over $5 million in treasury activity.

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Why Work With Us?

A few differences that define how we work with founder-led businesses.

  • Controller-level review on every engagement, not just software-generated reports
  • A finance function built around founder-led businesses — not enterprise or VC-only playbooks
  • One team owns the full process: bookkeeping, close, controller review, and advisory
  • Direct access to the people doing the work, not a rotating support queue

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