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Henry Yoon

Freelance Interim COO
UTC-08:00
Canada
Toptal Member Since June 8, 2022

After spending his last five years as a C-level executive with a 17-year corporate career on his belt, Henry decided to be in management consulting to help clients make tough business decisions in any given business setting, minimizing risks yet maximizing values. Henry enjoys freelancing because it allows him to assist clients more creatively, not limited by only a few schools of thought.

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Josh Bornstein

Freelance Interim COO
UTC-07:00
United States
Toptal Member Since July 1, 2022

Josh is an experienced early-stage venture investor, having sat on boards of SaaS and consumer startups in the US and India over the past 15 years. Josh worked closely with founders in multiple sectors, including vertical SaaS platforms, healthtech, fintech, audio infrastructure, no-code data science platforms, and consumer brands. Josh is willing to continue helping companies with hiring, product roadmap strategy, product-market fit, and growth.

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Pravin Raj

Freelance Interim COO
UTC-06:00
United States
Toptal Member Since February 15, 2023

Pravin excels at empowering strategic ambitions with the minimum of surprises. With 30+ years of experience, including AWS and Cisco, he has been a COO, professional services leader, management consultant, portfolio manager, software engineer, evangelist, marketer, and author. Pravin has led distributed teams on every continent, built teams of 15-1,500+, managed multi-hundred-million-dollar P&Ls, and delivered customer outcomes with a CSAT of 9.4/10 across 1,000+ clients.

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Joseph Valentic

Freelance Interim COO
UTC-05:00
United States
Toptal Member Since November 9, 2018

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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Peer Hackman

Freelance Interim COO
UTC+00:00
United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since August 24, 2022

Peer is a strategy consultant and executive with experience at McKinsey, PwC, Capgemini, and C-suite roles (COO, CCO, CMO, CSO). He specializes in growth strategies, transformation, and scaling for enterprises and startups. With success in TMT, retail, and fintech, Peer excels at strategic planning and cross-functional leadership. He drives operational excellence, implements solutions, and ensures strategy execution. Peer optimizes operations and delivers results in dynamic environments.

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Thomas Ruland

Freelance Interim COO
UTC+01:00
Germany
Toptal Member Since January 6, 2021

Thomas has nearly two decades of experience in finance, specializing in M&A, finance operations, and strategic leadership in startup settings. His expertise includes executing M&A transactions, leading capital-raising efforts, and serving as interim CFO/COO. Proficient in both advisory and operational roles, Thomas integrates analytical depth with a pragmatic, hands-on leadership style, making him a versatile and effective finance professional.

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Gavin Glick

Freelance Interim COO
UTC+02:00
Israel
Toptal Member Since June 7, 2017

Gavin has spent 15 years building and growing companies from scratch to profitability. At Peregrine, he successfully established new hedge funds and raised R1 billion in new assets. As a freelance financial expert, Gavin specializes in advising B2C and B2B mobile commerce and mobile app businesses to maximize cost per acquisition, ROI and sales via data-driven analysis, business modeling, and building customized KPI dashboards.

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Mohammad Reda

Freelance Interim COO
UTC+04:00
United Arab Emirates
Toptal Member Since May 18, 2022

Mohammad has over two decades of diversified experience in emerging markets and holds an MBA. As a business excellence advisor, he's helped SMEs and startups build their business models and structures to achieve remarkable growth and advised on funding needs. He also has extensive experience in digital transformation through post-graduate studies and reengineering processes and teams to penetrate new markets. Mohammad joined Toptal to help clients to create global success stories.

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Pratik Malladi

Freelance Interim COO
UTC+05:00
India
Toptal Member Since September 9, 2021

Pratik has 14 years of experience in accounting, tax, corporate finance, M&A, due diligence, entrepreneurship, and pre-investment appraisals for corporate M&As, and private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) transactions. As an associate VP, he executed advisory assignments for some of the largest corporates, PE, and VC houses across sectors. Pratik advised on more than 50 domestic and global transactions with deal sizes up to several billion US dollars.

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Kenny Jackel

Freelance Interim COO
UTC+07:00
Australia
Toptal Member Since October 5, 2022

Kenny has been helping companies expand over the past 20 years while working as a CEO, COO, and managing director. He has been instrumental in finding creative solutions to advance company objectives and has singlehandedly secured over $300 million in new business since 2015. Kenny has worked with WGC International, Ninety Plus Coffee, and InBEV Thailand on financial structure and strategy, technical consulting, retail franchising, and distribution. He enjoys freelancing for select companies.

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Michael Ang

Freelance Interim COO
UTC+08:00
Singapore
Toptal Member Since August 18, 2016

An MIT MBA graduate, Michael served large corporations at Bain and helped build new businesses at firms backed by top-tier VCs (Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, Softbank). He's led pricing work at a Silicon Valley firm acquired for $185 million and joined Toptal to work on challenging business problems. His work has led to the discovery of multimillion-dollar business optimization opportunities and contributed to a client’s multi-fold revenue increase.

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Erik has been an extremely valuable member of our team who has tremendous breath of experience with start ups in our lifecycle phase. What makes his contribution unique and highly effective is not only his excellent financial modeling skills and knowledge, but also the emotional intelligence with which he manages each relationship at Vault, understands our team dynamics, and helps us tackle start up challenges effectively. It is rare to find a part-time consultant who makes you feel like he/she is genuinely invested in the success of your company.

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Toptal has been an incredible key partner for Sidekick. As an early-stage start-up, we’ve leveraged both design and financial talent. The experience has been incredible, with those professionals bringing creativity, expertise, and advice to ensure Sidekick succeeds. My Toptal financial expert helped steer Sidekick’s business model, which resulted in an initial ROI of 650x! My experience with Toptal has given me great confidence in the future.

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Founder / CEO

Chris was great to work with and was always available on my schedule. His communication skills and personality were a 10/10. His outputs on the project were top notch and allowed us to develop more efficient forecasting and initiative prioritization frameworks. I would definitely use Chris again.

Chris Pozek

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What really sets Toptal apart is the caliber of finance talent available in their network. I had a very specific and pressing need, and Toptal quickly matched me with the perfect person for the job. The expert produced a thoughtful and robust financial analysis that has ultimately allowed us to forecast and prioritize initiatives much more efficiently.

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  • How quickly can you hire with Toptal?

    Typically, you can hire an Interim COO with Toptal in about 48 hours. For larger teams of talent or Managed Delivery, timelines may vary. Our talent matchers are highly skilled in the same fields they’re matching in—they’re not recruiters or HR reps. They’ll work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics, and match you with ideal candidates from our vetted global talent network.

    Once you select your Interim COO, you’ll have a no-risk trial period to ensure they’re the perfect fit. Our matching process has a 98% trial-to-hire rate, so you can rest assured that you’re getting the best fit every time.

  • To hire the right Interim COO, it’s important to evaluate a candidate’s experience, technical skills, and communication skills. You’ll also want to consider the fit with your particular industry, company, and project. Toptal’s rigorous screening process ensures that every member of our network has excellent experience and skills, and our team will match you with the perfect Interim COOs for your project.

  • At Toptal, we thoroughly screen our Interim COOs to ensure we only match you with the highest caliber of talent. Of the more than 200,000 people who apply to join the Toptal network each year, fewer than 3% make the cut.

    In addition to screening for industry-leading expertise, we also assess candidates’ language and interpersonal skills to ensure that you have a smooth working relationship.

    When you hire with Toptal, you’ll always work with world-class, custom-matched Interim COOs ready to help you achieve your goals.

  • You can hire Interim COOs on an hourly, part-time, or full-time basis. Toptal can also manage the entire project from end-to-end with our Managed Delivery offering. Whether you hire an expert for a full- or part-time position, you’ll have the control and flexibility to scale your team up or down as your needs evolve. Our Interim COOs can fully integrate into your existing team for a seamless working experience.

  • We make sure that each engagement between you and your Interim COO begins with a trial period of up to two weeks. This means that you have time to confirm the engagement will be successful. If you’re completely satisfied with the results, we’ll bill you for the time and continue the engagement for as long as you’d like. If you’re not completely satisfied, you won’t be billed. From there, we can either part ways, or we can provide you with another expert who may be a better fit and with whom we will begin a second, no-risk trial.

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