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Neil Portus | CFA, CMA
Freelance Investment 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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Alex Graham, CFA
Freelance Investment Strategist
Alex is a London-based CFA charterholder who has had a global career. He enjoys freelancing to keep abreast of industry trends and to reinforce his experience from venture capital, consulting, and bond/currency trading. With a technical skillset and an engaging communicative touch, he is proficient in valuations and market analysis. His breadth of work has ranged from projects with the Bank of England to helping a jewelry entrepreneur fundraise.
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Evan Fisher
Freelance Investment Strategist
Evan is a former investment bank VP offering a simple value prop: better-than-Wall-Street quality documents and advice at a fraction of the price. His work is responsible for over $1 billion invested in SMEs and has sat in every seat at the boardroom table as a director, shareholder, executive, and advisor. He enjoys helping businesses plan and refine their strategies, prepare for corporate actions, and hone their capital-raising approach.
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Juba Tsuladze
Freelance Investment Strategist
Juba is the founder of angioClast, a Cambridge-based biotech startup focused on cancer research. Before entrepreneurship, Juba was a seasoned CFO with multi-industry experience and has worked on projects ranging from an equity sale of a $150 million telecom company to the turnaround of a $50 million hotel business. He joined the Toptal network to resolve diverse challenges in FP&A, M&A, buyouts, and strategic analysis.
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Raphael Rottgen, CFA FRM
Freelance Investment Strategist
Raphael was the co-founder of a fintech company which he grew to 50 employees and merged with a competitor after four years. He's co-founded two investment firms, including a blockchain one, and worked for 15 years as a global investor and an M&A banker at Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan. He also holds a master's in AI and is a graduate of the International Space University. As a consultant, he's passionate about helping innovative businesses grow.
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Evgeny Vostretsov, CFA, FRM, CAIA
Freelance Investment Strategist
A hedge fund analyst and a former CFO of a startup, Evgeny performed deep-dive research on 15+ public equities and evaluated 30+ private equity and mezzanine debt transactions. Before getting an MBA from Chicago Booth, Evgeny founded an online retailer that sold across 11 time zones. He has advised on $5B+ valuations while at E&Y. He enjoys freelancing to help clients with evaluating investments, financial modeling, capital raising, and M&A.
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Dave Harpur
Freelance Investment Strategist
A chartered accountant with more than 15 years' experience, Dave has directly led double-digit EBITDA growth and over £1 billion in debt, equity, and M&A transactions while at leading private equity and consultancy firms (Global Infrastructure Partners, Octopus, IFM, and Deloitte). As a freelancer, he enjoys advising clients on strategy execution, debt and equity capital fundraising, corporate finance, and complex financial transactions.
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Steve Sprindis
Freelance Investment Strategist
Steve is an experienced financial executive and consultant with a broad range of experience ranging from deep dive financial analysis to M&A and valuation work. He has experience as a CFO, private equity investor, and investment banker. Steve has worked with over fifty companies on preparing business plans and offering memorandums and financial models, and has helped finance early and late stage companies, real estate, and other assets.
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Thorsten Jabas
Freelance Investment Strategist
Thorsten is a corporate finance advisor and interim CFO with an international career in investment banking (Lehman Brothers, Banco Santander) and the experience of launching and advising start-ups. He supports SMEs in the TMT, health care, consumer, and business services sectors with a passion for solving strategic and financial challenges. He is also an expert financial modeler and speaks English, German, and a bit of French.
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Calvin Clark
Freelance Investment Strategist
Calvin has helped raise a total of over $300 million in capital for dozens of VC-backed startups, PE-backed middle market companies, public companies and investment funds. He has run several buy and sell-side M&A processes. As a freelancer, he enjoys exploring strategic opportunities with companies undergoing significant change and growth. He has extensive experience in mobile technology, financial services, edtech, and transaction processing.
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Zachary Elfman
Freelance Investment Strategist
An American now resident in Spain, Zachary continued in London after completing his master's at the LSE, first as an analyst for a PE fund before switching to a global value hedge fund. He's an expert in modeling, fundamental analysis, and valuation. As a freelancer, he's completed the sale of a small business, advised on early-stage funding rounds, and acted as interim CFO for upstart companies. When he is not freelancing, he enjoys making wine.
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