Expert in corporate finance, financial forecasting, company valuation.
Experience at:
Investment bank, Goldman Sachs: covered multi-billion dollar companies
Venture capital, ABLT: invested in brands, incl. exit to Estée Lauder
CFO, Velocity Black: Exited to Capital One in 2023
What I offer
Financing support
I help early stage businesses understand effective ways to finance - and help them prepare for that whether that be debt, fund raise, sale, or IPO.
Worked with founders from financial and non-financial backgrounds - I keep it simple.
Link below on successful sale of Velocity Black to Capital One.
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Business Mentoring
Levelling up your business and need a sounding board for your complex problems?
I love helping ambitious entrepreneurs define what they want and realising it – whether that’s steering clear of pitfalls, capitalising on opportunities and providing broader perspectives.
Fractional CFO
Want greater clarity and handle on your financials?
I can help bring a strategic, founder-aligned perspective. From profit to cash flow - a consistent ability to align finance with broader business goals to support sustainable, scalable growth and set the right objectives.
Experiences
CFO - Velocity Black
I ran the finance department of technology start-up, joining pre-pandemic and help grow it into a global digital concierge business.
Within this role, I worked on the successful sale of Velocity Black to Capital One in a 9-figure deal.
Senior Principal - ABLT
I supported investments into ABLT's ESG focussed fund, reporting into the investment review committee.
Key partner between the businesses and the fund providing support to portfolio companies, and being an active Board Observer.
Worked with a myriad of brands through ABLT advisory business.
Investment Research Analyst - Goldman Sachs
Identified investment opportunities and made investment recommendations using analysis to value companies.
Clients included the world's largest hedge funds, asset managers and sovereign wealth funds.
Specialised in Consumer brands and involved in IPOs of Prada, Technogym, Zalando and many more.
Football Finance Expert (of sorts)
Living proof that anyone can podcast.
Writing and recently podcasting on the economics and financials of sport (mainly football at the moment).
Substack: https://substack.com/@spgoals
X: https://x.com/thePoS_007
United, Inc.: https://www.nqatpod.com
BSc, University of Bath
I studied Economics (what a surprise) and played a bit of sport (well, tried).
Wannabe athlete
I'm more effective when I'm active. I'll try any sport, no matter how bad I am at it. I even finished a Half Ironman once (I know my limits).
