About Optimum Service Solutions
Optimum Service Solutions exists to bring institutional-grade financial discipline to the commercial transportation and equipment finance sectors. We are not a generalist consulting firm. Our work is concentrated where our experience runs deepest: heavy and medium-duty trucking, fleet finance, equipment leasing, captive finance programs, and the private-equity-backed platforms operating across these markets.
Clients engage us when the stakes are high and the margin for error is narrow — during growth, transition, regulatory scrutiny, restructuring, or executive gaps. We deliver the controls, governance, and operational rigor that ownership groups and boards expect, drawn from careers spent inside the institutions our clients aspire to operate like.
Christopher Petersen
President
Christopher Petersen is a senior finance and operations executive with 25+ years of experience owning P&L, financial controls, risk governance, and operational performance — with commercial transportation as the consistent thread through his entire career. Heavy and medium-duty trucking, fleet finance, and transportation equipment have represented more than half of the portfolios under his management across every major role, including senior leadership positions at Citigroup, GE Capital, and Hitachi Capital America.
His career combines deep sector fluency with the financial infrastructure, cost discipline, and reporting rigor that private-equity-backed organizations require. He has designed and implemented financial performance dashboards, SLA frameworks, and KPI reporting systems that provide real-time visibility into operational costs, revenue drivers, and risk exposure — translating complex data into executive and board-level insight.
Christopher brings rare cross-border restructuring experience, having led a US entity through Chapter 15 proceedings arising from a Canadian parent’s CCAA filing. The engagement required direct fluency in creditor relations, cash management under constraint, and multi-jurisdictional legal coordination — a credential few advisors in the commercial finance space can offer.
Across his career he has held senior roles spanning credit risk, collections and loss mitigation, asset recovery, credit and risk transformation, and operations — serving as a strategic partner to CEOs, boards, and ownership groups across complex, multi-entity environments.
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“The firms that win in this sector aren’t the ones with the flashiest decks. They’re the ones with disciplined controls, honest reporting, and operators who understand what a portfolio actually does when conditions change. That’s the work we do.”
— Christopher Petersen, President
How We Work
Experts in Financial Risk Management
Optimum Service Solutions is a consulting firm that helps financial institutions and lenders strengthen risk management, improve operational effectiveness, and maintain regulatory and audit readiness.
With over two decades of industry expertise, we support clients in reducing delinquency, improving portfolio performance, and meeting compliance expectations. Our team has led large-scale risk transformations, managed multi-billion-dollar portfolios, and delivered measurable results across credit, compliance, and operational functions.
Senior-Level Expertise. Practical Results. Real Experience.
We’re not consultants who study your industry from the outside. We’ve worked inside it, at scale.
Optimum Service Solutions is a consulting firm headquartered in Southlake, Texas. We help organizations strengthen risk management, improve operational performance, and navigate regulatory and financial complexity, before problems arise.
Our team brings 27+ years of direct, hands-on experience managing multi-billion-dollar portfolios, building compliance programs, leading collections organizations, structuring capital markets transactions, and executing M&A. We’ve worked across financial services, specialty finance, captive finance, and complex operating businesses.
Our clients don’t get a consultant with a binder. They get experienced operators who have held the roles, managed the risk, and delivered results under pressure. That’s the difference.
Our Mission
To deliver senior-level advisory that helps organizations identify and solve risk, compliance, and operational challenges, before they become crises.
Our Vision
To be the first call any organization makes when the complexity of their operations exceeds their internal capacity to manage it alone.
Our Value
Directness. Accountability. Expertise that transfers. We bring real answers, not frameworks and we measure success by what actually changes.