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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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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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Joseph Valentic
Joe has 30+ years of middle-market financial services experience as an investment banker, CFO/COO, strategy consultant, public accountant, banker, and board leader. He excels with strategic planning, fractional CFO, pitch deck creation, fundraising, FP&A, M&A due diligence, and research. Joe helps businesses achieve their growth goals by integrating strategy, fractional executive services, financial planning, and capital placement services.
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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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Aleksey N. Krylov, CFA
Aleksey served in CFO roles of public and VC-backed private companies. As an investor, he contributed to 25+ private equity deals that have deployed $500 million. He has advised 50+ clients on raising $1.6 billion in equity in the healthcare, consumer, media, software, energy, and industrial sectors. Aleksey enjoys working with officers of early-stage and mature small-cap firms, and he freelances because it exposes him to a wide range of companies.
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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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Ravi Ramanujam
Ravi has a 25-year GE executive experience driving financial, operational, and strategic initiatives across industries and geographical sectors, covering FP&A, treasury, risk management, audits, controllership, investor relations, and capital markets. He has global joint venture experience and is astute at managing boards. Ravi has also turned multiple business units around to profitability and cash generation and is skilled at navigating economic cycles: growth, liquidity crises, and COVID-19.
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Mohamed Zarrugh
Mohamed has held executive internal consulting roles for JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, transforming operations with annualized expense reductions of up to $180 million. He is a finance expert who perfectly blends the academic knowledge of an Industrial Engineering degree and MBA with deep business acumen and technical know-how. Specializing in strategic planning, performance management, and process improvement initiatives, Mohamed is willing to leverage his experience with other clients.
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Akshay Sharma
Akshay is an entrepreneur, executive, and management consultant focused on solving key business problems. As a technology strategy executive, he has worked with Fortune 500 organizations on data platforms, AI, machine learning, and launching data products. Akshay has a proven track record in bringing products to market and managing technical, operational, and financial risks.
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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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Niloufer Afzal, MBA, CM
A growth strategy expert with tier 1 companies, Niloufer led the transformation of a $300 million pet business that was acquired for two times EBITDA. Her areas of expertise are strategic planning, innovation, customer strategy, and eCommerce transformation. She is an award-winning architect of iconic brands across North America, Europe, and Asia; J.M. Smucker, Reckitt, Philips, Kraft-Heinz, McCain, GSK, Tetra Pak, and Mars. Nilo joined Toptal to help organizations unlock and accelerate growth.
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