Zach Fine, Finance Expert in New York City, United States
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Zach Fine

Verified Expert  in Finance

Management Consulting Expert

New York City, United States

Toptal member since March 7, 2022

Bio

Zach is a go-to-market and scaling consultant with over five years of experience. He has led $160+ million fundraises, managed sales operations over $140 million, and brought clients from zero to $1+ million in revenue in under a quarter. Zach accelerates growth for clients by managing projects, optimizing sales, marketing, and back-office activities, staffing and directing fundraising activities, leading LEAN management, and implementing KPIs, OKRs, and SOPs.

Case Studies

Expertise

  • Competitor Analysis & Profiling
  • Lean Startups
  • Market Sizing
  • Objectives & Key Results (OKRs)
  • Operations
  • Startup Consulting
  • Startup Funding
  • Startups

Work Experience

Head of Research

2021 - PRESENT
Spark Mobile
  • Built and maintained market forecasts, including legislation, compliance, revenue, and unit economic forecasts.
  • Created due diligence decks that were used to raise $3.5 million. The decks included complex market sizing and forecasting methodologies.
  • Built and maintained cannabis payment and banking compliance and a technologies tracker.
  • Owned Lean experiments to solve user acquisition, fundraising, and operations problems and validate key business components.
Focus areas: Startups, Startup Consulting, Startup Growth Strategy Development, Lean Startups, Startup Funding, Enterprise Startups, Salesforce, HubSpot, Business Strategy, Business Process Modeling, Operating Models, Omnichannel Marketing

Marketing Director

2020 - PRESENT
Acanto, LLC
  • Developed a low-volatility, quantitative, and autonomous futures trading strategy with IRR exceeding 25%.
  • Generated high-quality new business by performing early through final stage due diligence on 250+ prospective funds.
  • Boosted revenue by 23% and net margin by 5% by creating and selecting 12 profitable products.
Focus areas: Hedge Fund Consultant, Quantitative Finance, Salesforce, HubSpot, Business Strategy, Business Process Modeling, Operating Models, Omnichannel Marketing

Director of Communications

2020 - PRESENT
ELITE Opportunity Fund
  • Led a $150 million fundraise, managing three fundraisers in the opportunity zone and oil and gas space.
  • Created investor communication materials, explaining complex regulatory and scientific concepts in easily understandable diagrams and materials.
  • Coached the chief scientist and chief acquisition officer on how to communicate scientific oil and gas concepts to a non-scientific audience.
Focus areas: Hedge Fund Consultant, Hedge Funds, Fundraising, Upstream Oil & Gas Management, Salesforce, HubSpot, Business Strategy, Business Process Modeling, Operating Models, Omnichannel Marketing

Senior Venture Consultant

2020 - PRESENT
Blue Phi Capital
  • Led $160 million fundraising campaigns in venture capital and other alternative investment raises as the vice president of communications.
  • Built CRM pipelines, metrics, and KPIs tailored to meet C-suite goals for increased transparency and accountability.
  • Managed three fundraisers and investor and competitor due diligence, ensuring FINRA, SEC, and CFTC compliance.
  • Acted as the investor relations director at Toke, presenting investor research to C-suite and board members.
Focus areas: Startups, Lean Startups, Operations, Product Owner, Hedge Funds, Process Improvement, Process Mapping, Process Optimization, Process Management, Business Process Optimization, Business Processes, Business Process Analysis, HubSpot, Business Strategy, Business Process Modeling, Operating Models, Omnichannel Marketing

VP of Investor Relations

2020 - 2021
Toke
  • Led a multimillion-dollar fundraise targeting angel investors and organizations and VCs.
  • Built CRM pipelines, metrics, and KPIs tailored to C-suite goals for increased transparency and accountability.
  • Created and executed a cold investor outreach campaign from the ground up, resulting in several successful pitches.
  • Advised founders and executives on the best fundraising methodologies to pursue.
Focus areas: Fundraising, Seed Fundraising, Startup Funding, Salesforce, HubSpot, Business Strategy, Business Process Modeling

VP of Operations

2020 - 2021
Edgy.io
  • Increased revenues from zero to over $1 million by working with executives on OKR goal-setting, implementing SOPs, and streamlining back-office operations.
  • Leveraged FCC geographic data to segment the market and deliver a market penetration execution plan spanning multiple sales cycles.
  • Recruited top technical leaders in cutting-edge technologies.
Focus areas: Lean Startups, Startup Consulting, Consulting, Operations, Product Owner, Salesforce, HubSpot, Business Strategy, Business Process Modeling

Product Manager

2019 - 2020
Touchstone Security
  • Designed, owned, and marketed B2B cybersecurity packages in an Agile framework, from concept to the first iteration.
  • Generated 10,000+ leads for GaaS and CaaS products by leveraging a SWOT analysis on 90+ competitor companies.
  • Increased the absolute conversion rate to 1.96% by designing A/B tests for SaaS products using Google and Salesforce.
Focus areas: Cybersecurity, Product Owner, Product Management, Salesforce, HubSpot, Business Strategy, Business Process Modeling
MAY 2022 - PRESENT

Salesforce Sales Operations Professional

Coursera

MAY 2022 - PRESENT

Project Management Professional

Google

Finance

Startup Funding, Due Diligence, Fund of Funds, Market Research, Fundraising, Seed Fundraising

Data & Analysis Software

Salesforce

Industry Expertise

Software

Other

Lean Startups, Startup Consulting, Consulting, Operations, Startups, Startup Growth Strategy Development, Enterprise Startups, Lean Canvas, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Market Sizing, Competitor Analysis & Profiling, Management Consulting, Process Improvement, Process Mapping, Process Optimization, Process Management, Business Process Optimization, Business Processes, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Analysis, Business Transformation, Sales Operations, HubSpot, Business Strategy, Operating Models, Product Owner, Hedge Funds, Product Forecasts, Sales Forecasting, Market Entry, Company Research, Omnichannel Marketing, Commodity Markets, Hedge Fund Consultant, Investor Relations, User Research, Lean, Project Management, Upstream Oil & Gas Management, Quantitative Finance, Cybersecurity, Product Management, Lean Project Management, Agile, Scrum, Salesforce Sales Cloud

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