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Brian Faust
Freelance Business Improvement Consultant
Brian co-founded a family of privately held global technology and media companies with 180 employees and offices in NYC, Ohio, LA, and Tel Aviv—serving as its board member and CFO. He is also an experienced corporate development executive having led more than $500 million of transactions, integrations, and capital raises. Brian joined Toptal because he enjoys working with leading companies and teams on interesting and dynamic challenges.
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Petar Jordan Zivkovic
Freelance Business Improvement Consultant
Petar has been regional CFO for a Forbes 100 company over the last five years, leading a multinational company's controlling and strategy division with €250 p.a. of local revenue. He held mid and senior positions in Deloitte and PwC, working on 20+ M&As, various audit, valuations, and restructuring engagements in Europe, serving IT, distribution, aviation, pharmaceuticals, and trade industries. Petar enjoys advising clients on complex financial modeling linking both business and finance worlds.
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Forbes 500 Company
Mike Helde
Freelance Business Improvement Consultant
Mike has worked 16 years in Asia in senior finance positions, including helping Metro Group (a major European retailer) expand its Japanese business from two to nine stores and assisting Imerys (a leading industrial company) to establish a profitable JV. He later became an entrepreneur in ERP and outsourced accounting fields in southeast Asia. Mike enjoys freelancing to help clients with complex financial modeling and corporate finance projects.
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BlueFox
John Lee
Freelance Business Improvement Consultant
John is a highly commercial, entrepreneurial, culturally intelligent leader who speaks six languages. His proudest achievement was founding his own travel technology startup, CultureMee, which won global awards in business and leisure travel. He is also proud to have led a Europe-wide, cross-functional supply chain project, which drove to a €40 million reduction in working capital in CRH Plc, one of the largest construction companies in the world.
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Rolf Andersen
Freelance Business Improvement Consultant
Rolf is an international finance executive with hands-on experience in large-scale global companies and start-ups. He's confident leading remote teams, strong in process optimization, completes thorough deep dives, and provides solid solutions. He uses robust strategic and analytical approaches to optimize and turn companies around. Rolf has built organizations and investment pipelines, set up reporting structures, and designed and executed turn-around plans to create winning client solutions.
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Trilogy - ESW Capital
Jonathan Tipton
Freelance Business Improvement Consultant
Jonathan is a 15+ year seasoned finance executive and deal professional. He has completed 50+ transactions for an aggregate transaction value of over $300 million. His involvement has included conducting due diligence, negotiating legal documents, preparing financial models, budgets, and cash forecasts, developing investment committee and board of director materials, and serving as interim CFO, among many other results-oriented projects.
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Tennally Corporation
Alexander Hanrath
Freelance Business Improvement Consultant
After raising $3 billion to fund acquisitions for blue-chip businesses while at J.P. Morgan, Alexander moved into venture capital, investing in clean technologies. As CFO of an LED technology startup, he raised profitability by 50%, and now, he enjoys helping other businesses grow strategically and sustainably. Working as a freelancer gives him flexibility with location and frees up his time to pursue social and environmental impact projects.
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Nualight Ltd
Raman Brar
Freelance Business Improvement Consultant
Raman has 12 years of experience leading over 30 M&A transactions and raising $500 million+ in debt and equity capital, with varying degrees of involvement as an operating executive or an active board member. He enjoys helping businesses and working with fascinating entrepreneurs and investors to solve complex problems and maximize value.
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Hoolime
Paul Ainsworth
Freelance Business Improvement Consultant
Paul is an international CFO with experience across multinational companies ranging from $250-$900 million in turnover. After roles of increasing responsibility with General Electric and Orica, he now freelances to help companies with his operational finance and transformation experience. He has led simplification projects across geographically disparate finance teams and has worked in the UK, Germany, Belgium, and Hungary.
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Orica
David Berlin
Freelance Business Improvement Consultant
David has served as a CFO at multiple private equity portfolio companies in the SaaS, manufacturing, and service sectors where he optimized revenue growth, profitability, and led acquisition initiatives. He has been a consultant since 2014 and leverages his skills in financial modeling, analysis, forecasting, M&A, and process enhancements to deliver value to his Toptal clients. He has an MBA from UCLA's Anderson School and is a CPA.
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Brookseed Partners
Peter Jacobson
Freelance Business Improvement Consultant
A Harvard grad with an MBA from Stanford, Peter has served as CFO of three successful companies, led several acquisitions, obtained growth capital, led recapitalization efforts, and led a successful exit for the shareholders. He's also raised $500 million+ for clients as a VP at KeyBanc Capital Markets, a commercial and investment bank. Peter enjoys freelancing to help clients with capital raising, M&A, FP&A, and various CFO-related functions.
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BridgeHealth
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