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William H. White
Freelance Start-up CFO
Will is an executive consultant with a wealth of experience supporting startups and mid-sized business growth. He has successfully led M&A transactions for $350 million, developed pricing and GTM strategies for emerging-technology startups, and supported clients through VC pitches. Will has a genuine passion for helping businesses navigate volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) to fundraise, refine their strategy, and ultimately accelerate growth.
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VUCA Strategies
Patrick Hoogendijk
Freelance Start-up 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.
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Blue Phi Capital
Jordan MacKenzie
Freelance Start-up CFO
A CPA and MBA, Jordan has created an impact in a diverse range of senior finance roles. He's built financial and operating processes for alternative funds with around $52 billion of assets, executed four investments at a travel scale-up, developed a $250,000 micro-lending fund in East Africa, and raised a £600,000 seed round for a digital health startup. Jordan freelances because he enjoys helping innovative clients to obtain capital, improve their back-office, and scale effectively.
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MacKenzie Advisory
Gary Traynor
Freelance Start-up CFO
Gary is an experienced finance expert specializing in cash forecasting and capital raising with over 18 years of experience working with dozens of startups, managing investor relations, startup operations, and all core finance functions such as FP&A. His financial background in technology investment banking includes raising over $9 billion in public offerings. Gary leverages his financial expertise by working with early-stage technology startups, for which he has raised over $140 million.
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Zags
Ed Carse
Freelance Start-up 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.
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EquiX, Inc.
Pedro I Bustillo
Freelance Start-up CFO
Pedro is a senior manager with 20+ years of international business and finance experience. He has led finance operations for Fortune 500 companies (Gillette, P&G, and Ideal Standard) and private enterprises in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Latin America, and he has executed numerous business valuations, strategic plans, and end-to-end product pricing analyses. Pedro enjoys consulting and freelancing as a way to help each client take their business to a sustainable path of value creation.
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Thomas Ruland
Freelance Start-up CFO
Thomas is an experienced finance professional with over 15 years of in-depth knowledge in M&A, finance, and business operations. He has executed multiple M&A processes, capital raising deals, and acted as (interim) CFO/COO in startup environments. Thomas has expertise both on the advisory side as well as in operational roles. His work-style follows an analytical management approach in combination with a hands-on mentality.
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Ralph Bohmer
Freelance Start-up CFO
A fellow of the ACCA, Ralph is a natural leader and strategic thinker, having helped grow businesses in the services, investment, and property sector from the ground up. He has excelled in executing complex equity, debt, and property deals to suit individual projects and entities. An expert in the automation of processes, he enjoys consulting with clients worldwide to help develop their accounting function so it provides clear, concise data for efficient decision-making.
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buuda Business Management
Carole Crawford, CFA
Freelance Start-up CFO
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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fincap360, LLC
Neil Portus | CFA, CMA
Freelance Start-up 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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Unity Development Group
Aleksey N. Krylov, CFA
Freelance Start-up CFO
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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Ftera Advisors
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