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Jimmy Stone
Freelance Financial Strategist
Jimmy's executed and evaluated more than $1 billion in debt, equity, and M&A transactions at an investment bank (JP Morgan), private equity firm (Warwick Group) and as a consultant. He's advised businesses ranging from pre-revenue startups to $1+ billion public companies in a broad range of industries. Jimmy holds an MBA with honors from Wharton, and he joined Toptal to help clients create tangible value while learning about new business models.
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Gary Calnan
Freelance Financial Strategist
Gary is a serial entrepreneur with CEO and CFO experience. Before co-founding an aerospace startup in 2017, Gary was the director of finance at a $120 million revenue SaaS company, where he was responsible for the financial management of multiple departments and supported three mergers. Gary leverages his unique blend of finance and entrepreneurial experience across early and growth-stage businesses to add value to Toptal clients.
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Patrick Yeghnazar
Freelance Financial Strategist
Patrick is an investor and operator who managed a $2+ billion portfolio at Highbridge, a hedge fund purchased by JP Morgan. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Patrick served as a CEO in the advertising and energy sectors, a chief investment officer for a family foundation, a partner in a capital raising consultancy, and as a CFO for a racetrack development. He freelances to help with fundraising, M&A execution, and financial execution.
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Andy Li
Freelance Financial Strategist
Andy is a seasoned finance executive who has completed over $50 billion of venture capital, private equity, and M&A transactions for leading Wall Street firms (KKR and Centerview). He has worked on landmark transactions in the consumer, TMT, and healthcare sectors such as News Corp's spin-off of Fox. He is passionate about helping clients achieve their full potential and enjoys freelancing on fundraising, M&A, and corporate finance projects.
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Neil Portus | CFA, CMA
Freelance Financial Strategist
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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Aleksey N. Krylov, CFA
Freelance Financial Strategist
Aleksey served in CFO roles of public and VC-backed private companies. As 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. He enjoys working with officers of early stage and mature small-cap firms. He freelances because it exposes him to a wide range of companies.
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Carole Crawford, CFA
Freelance Financial Strategist
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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Marc Howland
Freelance Financial Strategist
Marc is a Harvard Business School graduate with honors, a former investment banker from Goldman Sachs, and private equity investor at The Carlyle Group. He has helped execute more than $70 billion worth of global M&A and financing transactions in the tech, media, telecom, infrastructure and sports facility finance markets. Marc enjoys freelancing to contribute his knowledge and skills to others while working on his own early-stage ventures.
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Amit Thakur
Freelance Financial Strategist
Amit is a highly successful, and sought-out financial advisor in M&A, debt and equity raising, and strategic finance deals totaling $35 billion. He established Standard Chartered's U.S. M&A business, and led Morgan Stanley's Indian FIG group, advising and mentoring companies, ranging from startups to MNCs, globally. Amit now independently advises a broad spectrum of clients on critical financial and business development initiatives.
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Jason Seldon
Freelance Financial Strategist
Jason is an operational leader with 20+ years of experience working at both large enterprises (PwC, Disney) and startups (Business.com, Coin-In). His experience includes raising ~$150 million in funding for various startups with multiple successful exits. He has a top-tier education as a Wharton undergraduate, a UCLA MBA, and as a CPA. He enjoys freelancing as it helps him to continue to develop his various skills as he works with new clients.
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Brent Dial
Freelance Financial Strategist
Brent's led Anheuser-Busch's craft beer growth strategy serving as the CFO of their $1 billion high-end division and completed over $12 billion in M&A and capital raising transactions as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank. As a freelancer, Brent seeks to help clients build their strategy backed by rigorous analytics, and tell their story. He enjoys working with clients across different industries and levels of maturity.
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