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William Yeatts
William has in-depth experience in strategic finance, including M&A, corporate finance advisory, FP&A, treasury, and public company investor relations. His expertise spans small teams working on targeted projects to large teams tackling tactical, enterprise-level processes. William has led teams, managed reviews, and completed multiple acquisitions in digital IT services and cybersecurity. He has a passion for numbers and leverages financial decision-making to guide business leaders.
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Kevin Roberts
Over the last 20+ years, Kevin has closed 46 M&A deals totaling several billion in value. He started his career at leading investment banks—Bank of America and Merrill Lynch—and respected private equity firms—Trinity Hunt—advising clients ranging from $1-billion companies to startups and investment firms to family offices. Kevin joined Toptal mainly to leverage his capabilities in M&A and strategic finance, aiming at helping talented entrepreneurs and investors achieve their growth objectives.
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Curtis H Short
Curt has 30+ years of experience spanning large, mid-size, and small companies—private equity and public, for-profit, and not-for-profit (NFP)—specializing in process improvement. He has successfully led three sell-side M&A transactions and negotiated and implemented a 3-party transitional services agreement. Curt is a CPA with an MBA who loves learning new businesses and looks forward to driving client business success, leveraging his extensive background.
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Davit Gvelesiani
Davit is a 2025 Incoming Investment Banking Associate at Santander in their New York energy, infrastructure, and transition coverage. During his recent summer, he worked on transactions worth $30+ billion, including projects in oil and gas, hydrogen, carbon capture, and solar panels and module manufacturing. Currently, Davit is a second-year MBA candidate at the University of Rochester. He serves as CEO of the local venture fund focusing on early-stage startups across technology and healthcare.
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Azad Ur Rahman
Azad is a former Deloitte strategy and operations consultant with experience leading large strategic and transformational programs for Fortune 500 clients. Upon leaving Deloitte in 2017, Azad founded Alana Consulting. He leads a team there to deliver projects in cost reduction, margin improvement, spend management, supply chain analytics, post-merger integration support, value capture, and program management, including M&A integration, technology implementation, and more.
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Barbara Close
As a former KPMG and PwC consultant and Fortune 1000 executive, Barbara has collaborated with CXOs to solve operational challenges in diverse industries for 20+ years. She has expertise across consumer and industrial products and services, manufacturing, logistics, eCommerce, retail, and technology, where she uses her engineer's mindset to drive business value, minimize costs and risk, and optimize processes. Barbara is a mechanical engineer and Kellogg MBA.
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Luke Skarzynski
A founder of Just In Case Estates, a legal tech startup, Luke has over ten years as a finance veteran. He began his career at L Catterton, the world's largest consumer-focused private equity firm, and served on a senior leadership team at one of its portfolio companies, growing revenue by over four times and leading the finance, operations, merchandise planning, and customer experience teams. Luke wants to connect with other passionate entrepreneurs and solve exciting new business challenges.
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Michael Andrew Hengst
Michael is a finance leader with 17 years of experience in operational finance, VC investing, consulting, and entrepreneurship. He set up a shared services FP&A team of 30+ people at GE, managing $200+ million. As a VC fund manager, he assessed 600+ startups and doubled the portfolio value in two years. Michael is passionate about improving a business's performance and has helped 40+ clients with company valuations, M&A transactions, raising capital, and developing strategic growth plans.
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Whitney Okeke
Whitney, a seasoned finance professional with 10 years of experience, excels as an Anaplan solution architect. Her expertise spans different types of financial modeling across various industries. Whitney's proficiency in leveraging Anaplan optimizes organizational performance, streamlines processes, and automates repetitive tasks and reports while enhancing strategic planning. She is passionate about delivering tailored solutions to drive efficiency and elevate business outcomes.
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Dimitre Krouchev
Dimitre is a financial consultant who has worked with over 50 clients in multiple corporate finance roles, such as interim CFO, VP of finance, and senior associate, helping startups and SMBs raise over 77 million in debt and equity financing. Dimitre was a former senior associate at Triple Enterprises, a top financial advisory firm in Los Angeles, and was the first senior associate to be offered partner there.
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Yvette Kennedy
Yvette has an innovative approach to people processes, focusing on high-value input from managers and employees. She uses talent data and business analytics to understand the employee journey as part of assessing engagement and opportunities to increase employee experience and business outcomes. Yvette stands out as a senior business transformation executive dedicated to driving positive change in organizations through innovative people practices.
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