17 Aug Fortify Restoration Appoints Candace Debo, CPA, as Chief Financial Officer
Veteran construction and industrial-services finance leader joins the structural restoration platform to support its next phase of growth.
Fortify Restoration, a leading provider of structural restoration services throughout Florida, today announced the appointment of Candace Debo, CPA, as Chief Financial Officer. Debo brings more than two decades of progressive accounting and finance leadership across the construction, industrial services, engineering-procurement-construction (EPC), and manufacturing sectors, and will lead Fortify’s finance, accounting, treasury, and capital functions as the company scales.
Debo joins Fortify from InPwr Inc., a design-build electrical contractor serving commercial, industrial, and data center markets, where she served as Chief Financial Officer. During her tenure the business experienced significant growth, and professionalization.
Earlier in her career, Debo spent more than 17 years at Zachry Holdings, Inc., a $5 billion EPC contractor serving the energy sector, where she rose to Senior Director of Financial Accounting and owned full consolidation and GAAP reporting across the organization’s five operating companies. Her background spans percentage-of-completion and project accounting, balance-sheet management, banking and surety relationships, M&A due diligence and integration, audit readiness, and forecasting — a skill set closely aligned with the demands of a fast-growing, project-based restoration business.
“In addition to Candace’s finance skillset, she is exactly the kind of leader Fortify needs at this stage,” said Mike Rosen, Chief Executive Officer of Fortify Restoration. “She has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to successfully lead change management through established trust, built the financial discipline, systems, and banking relationships that let a construction-driven business scale with confidence. As we continue to grow across Florida and the Southeast — organically and through acquisition — her experience professionalizing finance functions and integrating acquisitions will be invaluable.”
“I’m thrilled to join Fortify Restoration at such an exciting point in its growth,” said Candace Debo, CPA, Chief Financial Officer of Fortify Restoration. “There is a tremendous opportunity to build a best-in-class finance organization that supports the operations team, strengthens our banking and surety capacity, and gives leadership the visibility to make disciplined, strategic decisions. I look forward to partnering with Mike and the entire team to help build the preeminent structural restoration platform in the region.”
Debo is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.S. in Accounting and a B.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Central Oklahoma.
About Fortify Restoration
Fortify Restoration is a leading provider of structural restoration services. The company’s focus includes concrete restoration, building re-certification assistance, waterproofing, weatherproofing, painting, and window, railing, and roof replacement services, predominantly in high-rise condominiums and other commercial properties. Fortify Restoration is a portfolio company of Osceola Capital, a lower-middle-market private equity firm headquartered in Tampa, Florida.