About
Cody Duane-McGlashan
I help subscription, media, and growth-stage companies make better financial decisions. My work sits at the intersection of financial modeling, strategy, analytics, and executive storytelling, helping leadership teams understand the drivers of the business, evaluate trade-offs, and decide what to do next.
Before starting Kite Hill Consulting, I spent four years at Disney+, building global subscriber forecasts, analyzing content ROI, and working cross-functionally across data, product, and marketing. I specialized in The Disney Bundle with Hulu and ESPN+, supporting initiatives from Black Friday promotions to the ad-tier launch. Before that, I was a strategy consultant at Altman Solon, focused on corporate strategy and buy-side diligence across tech, media, and telecom.
I founded Kite Hill Consulting in 2024 and have since worked on high-impact projects with more than a dozen clients, from major streaming platforms to early-stage AI startups.
Background
Altman Solon
Strategy consulting / PE due diligence / Tech, media & telecom
Disney+
Global subscriber forecasting / Ad-tier launch / LTV & pricing analysis
Kite Hill Consulting
Strategic finance advisory / Financial modeling / Content & growth strategy
How I work
Every engagement starts with understanding the mechanics of your business, not applying a template. I work directly with founders, CFOs, and leadership teams to build financial models that are clear enough to present to a board and robust enough to stress-test real decisions and drive daily operations.
The model is rarely the whole answer. I work with data teams to understand churn, conversion, engagement, and customer behavior; with marketing teams to evaluate CAC, channel efficiency, and payback; and with product and leadership teams to understand how pricing, packaging, and roadmap decisions flow through the P&L. The result is not just a forecast, but a clearer view of how the business creates value.
I'm hands-on by design. You won't get a junior analyst or a recycled framework. You get me, working alongside your team.
I also use modern AI-assisted workflows to move faster and go deeper: cleaning messy datasets, pressure-testing assumptions, accelerating research, and exploring scenarios that would otherwise be too time-consuming to test. I built PopuLens, a demographic mapping tool, from scratch using these tools and am currently developing FilmIntel, a tool to measure a movie's ROI across theatrical and streaming releases. The result is more leverage: faster analysis, broader scenario testing, and more room for strategic thinking.
Beyond the spreadsheet
The firm is named after a poppy-covered hillside I grew up exploring and hiking on in Mill Valley in Northern California. Since graduating from Brown, I've made Brooklyn my home. When I'm not working with clients, you'll find me running or biking in Prospect Park, producing an independent film, skiing fresh powder, or scuba diving somewhere warm.