About me
I am...
CFO - COO - CEO
Interim or Fractional
London & Worldwide
Tech SMEs & Startups
What I'm working on
CFO Netdata
Netdata, an open-source, innovative, network monitoring tool, raised $30 million Series A at pre-revenue from some of the world's most prestigious VCs.
Is the 3rd most starred project in CNCF after Cubernetes and Elastic
https://landscape.cncf.io/format=card-mode&grouping=no&sort=stars
Looking for
The Live Green Co - Advisory
The Live Green Co is accelerating the world's transition to healthy and sustainable food using proprietary technology that can substitute the animal, synthetic and ultra-processed additives in our food with 100% natural compounds. They received several awards & recently raised $7million in USA
Looking for
Experience & achievements
Sourcebits-Turnaround & Sale of a 150 people App Dev agency in SF
An early app dev company in SF who created 20+ Appleshop Top100 apps. As CEO I executed a turnaround for profit and sale play as sales were dropping. With India COO and fast moves we succeeded to get profitable and sell rhe company in 18 months
Net One - Scaling of a Double Play Fixed Telephony Operator in Greece
Net One was the first LLU DSL offering in Greece with automated setup.
In 6 years as CFO raised $60 million and went through a merger with Algonet, taking headcount from 30 to 350 and revenue from $3 to $35million.The project died when sudden regulatory changes irreversibly hit the business model
International implementation - SAP Consolidation & ABC Costing systems
S&B had mining ops in 15 countries.As Head of Costing I put in place ABC (Activity Based Costing systems ) and designed and implemented the first SAP Consolidation system in Greece.When Imerys (a french large corp) bought S&B, they adopted the systems, as they were more sophisticated than their own
Schlumberger - Internal Audit & Projects for CFO - Paris
As the young assistant to the CFO of a 2.5 billion/12,000 people business in 120 countries I participated into audits revealing a $40 million fraud in Carakas and run a project to reduce the worldwide spending of maintenance of tool systems. Learned a lot about how a big corporation is managed
Fugro - The world's deepest offshore rig foundation design study - USA
Although a young engineer, was selected to perform the foundation study of the then world's deepest (3,300ft) offshore rig (Ram Powell) for Shell Oil.Offshore, under extreme conditions running a 7X24 operation, taking soil samples, tests in situ and in lab to determine the soil's foundation behavior