Kyle Swist

Kyle Swist is a business and advisory executive with more than 25 years of experience helping organizations drive revenue growth by building and scaling the talent, leadership, and organizational capabilities needed to grow. His career spans consulting, executive search, business development, workforce strategy, and organizational development. He currently leads Synova’s Interim CFO & Controller Practice, partnering with companies to provide experienced financial leadership and flexible executive solutions during periods of growth, transformation, and transition.

Kyle began his career in technology consulting, selling and delivering technology solutions to Fortune 500 organizations before moving into executive search and professional services. Over the next decade, he held leadership roles with firms including Robert Half International, Hudson Global, and Eliassen Group, where he built and led technology consulting and executive search practices, developed enterprise client relationships, managed P&Ls, built delivery teams, and grew multimillion-dollar books of business.

Kyle then spent more than a decade with Granite Telecommunications, where he served as Vice President of Talent Management and Talent Acquisition and worked closely with executive leadership during a period of significant expansion. He helped build the talent, leadership, and organizational infrastructure that supported Granite’s growth from approximately $500 million to $2 billion in revenue and from 500 to 2,500 employees.

His role extended beyond talent acquisition. Kyle advised senior leadership on organizational design, workforce strategy, succession planning, outsourcing, leadership development, compensation, and retention. He also partnered with sales leadership to help scale the sales organization from approximately 60 to 500 professionals, building the hiring, onboarding, development, and retention strategies needed to support rapid growth.

Following Granite, Kyle returned to the consulting and advisory side of the business, working with growth companies and executive teams to build leadership capabilities, execute executive search and consulting engagements, and develop scalable talent strategies. His experience spans technology, telecommunications, SaaS, and professional services.

At Synova, Kyle brings together more than two decades of practice building, business development, executive advisory, and internal operating experience to lead and scale the firm’s Interim CFO & Controller Practice.