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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.
Show MoreScott 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.
Show MorePatrick 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.
Show MoreGeorge 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.
Show MoreScott 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.
Show MoreTory Green
Freelance Interim CFO
Tory is a Stanford graduate and Partner at Tiller Partners, a US-based VC with over 20 investments and $100+ million AUM. He enjoys freelancing to reinforce his nearly 20 years of experience in strategy (Disney, Fox) and finance (Oaktree, Merrill Lynch). Tory also has a deep background in entrepreneurship and operations, as the COO and CFO of a venture-backed fintech startup and co-founder of a digital publishing firm with a Top 50 iTunes ranking podcast and over 2 million downloads per month.
Show MoreMatthew Lo
Freelance Interim CFO
An MIT and UPenn alumnus, Matthew has 15 years of experience at top finance firms and startups (Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, etc.), working on over $10 billion of capital-raising, M&A, and investment projects. He has worked with clients such as PE firms KKR and The Carlyle Group and worked at three startups, including a unicorn funded by Softbank. He is currently working on a new startup and is always eager to help fellow entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Show MoreJeffrey 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. He focuses on providing strategic services to early and mid-stage companies. As a consultant, he has acted as an interim CFO for 300+ companies and funds. A few highlights of Jeffrey's career outside consulting include being a partner at a VC fund, banking with Morgan Stanley and HSBC, and co-founding a real estate brokerage.
Show MorePrashant Sharma
Freelance Interim CFO
Prashant is a Georgetown graduate and a seasoned financial consultant who has helped clients grow their businesses and successfully executed over 10 M&A transactions. He has advised startups and Fortune 500 corporations while working at Wall Street investment banks like Citigroup and private equity firms like Arlington Capital Partners. Prashant has also led corporate strategy for a division of UnitedHealth. He joined Toptal to work on challenging projects with interesting clients.
Show MoreBertrand 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.
Show MoreNeil 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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