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What I offer

Fractional CFO for seed to Series B stage businesses.

Fractional CFO for seed to Series B stage businesses.

Hands-on leader and strategic partner who works to ensure a collaborative & purpose-led environment and achieve busniess growth.

Drive business performance

Drive business performance

I enable you and the wider team to define KPIs, assess financial viability, and benchmark the business against its competitors to drive sustainable business growth.

Strategic partner to Founders

Strategic partner to Founders

A true business partner that Founders or C-suite can lean on to ask the what-if & so-what and identify the optimal path to revenues.

Better financial control

Better financial control

I bring rigour & contribute significantly to realise optimal financial control for businesses to make informed decisions, optimise financial strategy, and achieve their financial objectives.

Experiences

CFO at AMPLYFI Ltd

CFO at AMPLYFI Ltd

A portfolio role that evolved into an operational role. Key impacts so far:
# £4.5m pre-Series B raise, opex reduced by over £900k annually, and capitalised £2m IP asset.
# lead US and UK finance team.
# a strategic partner to the CEO to drive the business to profitability.

Financial Controller at KAUL-Medizintechnik GmbH

Financial Controller at KAUL-Medizintechnik GmbH

A supervisory role for all financial and tax reporting & related activities. Duties include:
# maintain internal controls over financial reporting in the business
# review & present financial reports to the Board
# compliance with relevant German fiscal authorities

Board Director at RCG Group Ltd

Board Director at RCG Group Ltd

Key impacts so far:
# Negotiated £2m asset-backed credit line.
# Oversaw setting up of finance systems & MI reporting, and implemented cost controls.

Founder CFO at Brisk Ltd

Founder CFO at Brisk Ltd

A Founders Factory incubated startup, the business has since exited to a larger fintech.
# Led finance, operations, compliance and investor reporting aspects for the business.
# Raised £1m seed fundraiser pitching to angel syndicates & EIS funds.

CFO & Head of Strategy at Generali Jeniot

CFO & Head of Strategy at Generali Jeniot

Delivered a build-exit strategy for a £12m scale-up.
# trade sale & integration to Generali Italia.
# transformed finance and business processes enabling scale business growth by 3x in customers, 5x in users, and from 20 people to 100+ people organisation operating across 10 countries.

Consultant at Everything Everywhere

Consultant at Everything Everywhere

Delivered business cases to leverage enterprise messaging infra & monetise OTT services. Two notables were:
# Lease IoT-based devices to large shipping cos & 3PL providers for assets tracking proposition
# Digital-wallet proposition to give consumers a simple & secure shopping experience

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  • i.e. Marketing director
  • i.e. Mentor
  • CFO, Board Member,
  • CFO
  • Fractional CFO
  • Finance Director
  • Strategic Finance Director
  • Interim Finance Director
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Industries (/)
  • i.e. Tech
  • i.e. Education
  • B2b SaaS
  • Fintech
  • D2C
  • Insurtec
  • Finance
  • Financial services, payments, ID technology, consumer retail
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Skills (/)
  • i.e. Research
  • i.e. Branding
  • empathy
  • Strategic Collaboration
  • Business sense
  • Articulate communicator
  • Attitude Change
  • Commercial negotiation
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Keywords (/)
  • i.e. Digital nomad
  • i.e. Ex-Google
  • CFO, finance expert,
  • Strategic Partner
  • Board Advisor
  • Operator
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • Fundraising
  • Finance team upgrading
  • Financial Control
  • Financial Planning & Analysis
  • Business Planning and Cashflow
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