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Ed Carse
Freelance Interim CFO
Ed is an experienced entrepreneur, growth-company CFO, and investment banker with a background in many industries, including technology, media, finance, and business services. He has launched several companies, raised over $50 million in growth capital, and helped a company expand internationally and scale 5x in three years. Ed enjoys helping fix business, operating, and financial challenges that prevent clients from reaching their potential.
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Scott Hoover
Freelance Interim CFO
Scott is a CPA who brings financial clarity to clients, from small firms using QuickBooks to larger companies on platforms like Dynamics or Viewpoint. An entrepreneur at heart, he became a freelance CFO nine years ago and has assisted clients in a wide range of industries. He has three focus areas: high-level monthly financial oversight, accounting software projects (setup, cleanup, migration, and chart of accounts), and corporate tax planning.
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Patrick Hoogendijk
Freelance Interim CFO
Patrick is a CFA and certified chief compliance officer with 20 years of experience as a CFO or COO. He specializes in working with founders to hone their business models, build out their companies' financial and operational backbones, acquire their senior team to attract VC funding, and scale their companies through a metrics-focused approach. Patrick is comfortable in the inherent creative chaos of fast-moving teams, and his experience is backed by an MBA and MSc in chemical engineering.
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George Mathew
Freelance Interim CFO
George has worked on M&A, IPO, and fixed income transactions with a cumulative deal value of $20+ billion at renowned Wall Street banks including Salomon Brothers and Morgan Stanley. A Fulbright scholar, George is active in the fintech startup sector and was on the management committee of Houston’s largest independent bank. At Toptal, he enjoys refining business models and optimizing financing structures to maximize flexibility and profitability.
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Scott Brown
Freelance Interim CFO
Scott has extensive experience working with high growth businesses in many capacities. He finds that a solid foundation in accounting and operations helps him better guide the financial planning and decision-making process. He has consulted with a number of different service and manufacturing businesses helping with capacity planning, incentive plans, business plan development, and developing driver-based rolling forecast processes.
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Bertrand Laroche
Freelance Interim CFO
Bertrand directly deployed $250 million in private equity and venture capital transactions in energy, infrastructure, and sustainable companies. He has worked on $10 billion worth of M&A, private placements, and structured finance deals at global investment banks (BNP Paribas, Société Générale). While becoming a thought leader on ESG, he enjoys freelancing to help investors and startups with their financial and strategic planning, investment due diligence, capital raising, and ESG strategy.
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Matthew Andrejkovics
Freelance Interim CFO
Matthew has a diverse background that includes accounting, M&A advisory, small business management, and equity research. He joined the Toptal network to more effectively optimize his utilization and due to his interest in working on a variety of client engagements. Given Matthew’s broad professional experience, he has worked at large companies, like Morgan Stanley, and small companies, like his family business where he spent four years in a managerial capacity.
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Bertrand Deleuse
Freelance Interim CFO
Bertrand is a 25-year finance veteran with a true 360 experience, honed as an investment banker, venture advisor, project developer, CFO, and expert witness consultant in international arbitrations. He has advised and partnered on over 100 transactions and investment initiatives totaling over $16 billion. Bertrand is a seasoned problem solver and decision-maker with expert facilitation skills. Bertrand advises on M&A, corporate development, venture growth, project development, and financing.
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Neil Portus | CFA, CMA
Freelance Interim CFO
Neil is a CFO for growth companies and a former equity analyst at Goldman Sachs in NY where he helped lead numerous transactions including Zipcar's $1.1 billion IPO. He was also an equity analyst at Barclays Capital & Lehman Brothers and began his career at a boutique investment bank (M&A, restructuring, debt financings). He's built his operational skills both as a startup founder and as the CFO of an East Africa-focused impact investment firm.
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Jeffrey Fidelman
Freelance Interim CFO
Jeffrey is a Harvard University graduate and currently manages a 40-person management consulting firm parallel to being a freelance CFO, focusing on providing strategic services to early and mid-stage companies. As a consultant, he has acted as an interim CFO for 100+ companies and funds. A few highlights of Jeffrey's career outside of consulting include being a partner at a VC fund, banking with Morgan Stanley and HSBC, and co-founding a real estate brokerage.
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Carole Crawford, CFA
Freelance Interim CFO
At Morgan Stanley, Carole advised eight founders through exits totaling over $750 million and then founded her own practice to manage venture investments for family offices. A former tech CFO, she freelances to leverage her experience with capital raises, strategic pivots, and turnarounds. She enjoys helping innovators and entrepreneurs achieve financial success across many verticals, and has recently focused her efforts on fintech.
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