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Brandon Pearlman
Brandon is a technology executive with 19 years of experience, including working as a management consultant for the Global 1000. He has successfully founded and exited his startup and executed a GTM strategy that yielded an ARR of $20 million in year 1—and a projected $200 million in year 2. Brandon expertly helps accelerate early and growth-stage companies, identifying sustainable growth opportunities and enabling informed decisions with in-depth analysis.
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Lori Moser
Lori is an experienced finance expert who led and managed entire M&A processes for acquisitions, divestitures, and carve-outs. Specializing in strategy development, targets identification, market research, financial plan preparation and valuation, due diligence, LOI negotiation and agreement, and plan execution, Lori has worked at a Fortune 500 business, a startup, and an investment bank, dealing with SaaS, manufacturing, consumer products, and industrial automation.
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Jason McClain
A Wharton MBA and former CFO, Jason has executed over $3 billion in transactions as a Goldman Sachs and boutique investment banker. He joined Toptal because of the variety of challenging finance and accounting projects. He has worked with Fortune 500, middle-market, early-stage, and non-profit organizations across a wide range of industries. Previously, Jason was a Marine Corps aviator operating the F/A-18 fighter aircraft and holding a Top Secret security clearance.
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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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Sanjay Jajoo
Sanjay is a finance executive and operating partner focused on value creation and sustainability. He has 20+ years of CFO and finance leadership experience with companies like General Electric, Kraton, G-CON (Summa PE), Revive (PE), and Star—driving P&L, cash, M&A, due diligence, strategy, and audits. Sanjay has led and grown businesses across diverse segments, including oil and gas, power generation, manufacturing, industrial, and distribution.
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Carol Kraemer
Carol advised in the sale of a global multi-billion dollar energy company and served as a sub-segment controller/CFO for Siemens. She helps companies grow through acquisitions, fundraising, and strategic advisory. Carol has built some of the most sophisticated financial models for high-tech startups as well as large corporations and infrastructure projects. Freelancing allows her to broaden her industry focus while working with very driven CEOs.
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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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Haseeb A Chowdhry
Haseeb has 10+ years of experience in investment banking, strategy and corporate development, and operational experience at a founder-led startup. He has been involved in transactions with a cumulative value of $10 billion. His experience spans multiple industries including transportation, financial services, fintech, franchising, retail, hospitality/real estate, food-tech, edtech, health-tech, and digital payments.
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