Take a listed-co CFO seat or lead a successful IPO/secondary in the next 3 years — public-market seat is the OVR delta between 78 and 84 for finance careers and roughly 3–5× the transfer fee.

Add one independent audit-committee board seat now while still operating — pre-loads the post-CFO board-portfolio income and signals 'directorship caliber' which most CFOs only earn after they exit the seat.

Pick up one provable specialism (M&A integrator, treasury for a regulated industry, or capital-markets practitioner) and publish on it — generic CFO with mba_top sits in a pool of hundreds, named specialist sits in a pool of dozens.