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Zeid Alsharif
Zeid is a strategic finance and growth advisor who helps SMEs and mid-market leaders secure capital, strengthen cash flow, and scale with confidence. With 20+ years of experience in corporate banking and advisory, Zeid brings institutional insight, commercial judgment, and hands-on execution to support growth, recovery, and long-term value creation.
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Swapnil Manish
Swapnil is a finance expert with 16 years of experience and an MBA in finance. He has advised on M&A transactions, fundraising, and valuations worth $13 billion at bulge bracket investment banks (BNP Paribas and SMTB). He is also the co-founder of two startups, and he has advised other SME entrepreneurs at the intersection of business planning, fundraising, and scaling up through M&A and organic growth. Swapnil enjoys interacting with entrepreneurs and helping them maximize business value.
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Monica Ioannidou Polemitis
Monica specializes in data analytics, enterprise data architecture, digital transformation, and data-driven strategies. With a background at Deloitte, she brings expertise in leveraging AI-powered solutions to optimize business performance. Currently, she leads projects on augmented analytics, data architecture design, and AI agents. As a passionate advocate for innovation, Monica works to empower organizations to unlock the potential of their data for strategic growth and transformation.
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Dhruv Tandan
Dhruv is a global fractional CFO and FP&A expert who plugs into scaling companies globally, often as their 1st finance hire, and builds the finance function from the ground up. He specializes in FP&A, fundraising, fin-ops, and M&A. He has helped his clients raise over $100 million across 20 rounds, spanning Seed through Series C. With 16+ years across technology, SaaS, and energy markets in the USA, Canada, and APAC, Dhruv co-founded and scaled a boutique consulting firm from zero to 40 people.
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Suresh Kumar Jandhyala
Suresh is a Chartered Accountant with 25+ years of experience as a group CFO, a CEO, and a senior vice president investment banker at Morgan Stanley for 13 years. He has executed complex M&A transactions and debt and equity capital raising mandates for large corporates, aggregating to $10 billion+. His sector experience includes energy, petrochemicals, oil and gas, telecom, mining, and infrastructure. Suresh is known for integrity, strategy, and creativity.
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Pawan Kesarwani
Pawan is an experienced finance professional with expertise in financial modeling, scenario building, fundraising, and financial management. He has helped multiple startups to raise over $250 million in the form of equity/debt capital, built and managed their finance function from scratch, and has strategized and executed 30 M&A deals. Pawan likes to freelance for Toptal as it allows him to work on challenging projects with incredible global clients.
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Venkatraman Jaishankar
Venky is a seasoned corporate finance and strategy professional with over 13 years of experience with global banks such as Morgan Stanley and Standard Chartered. He has led the execution of some of India's largest M&A transactions, such as Diageo-United Spirits, Sembcorp-Green Infra, Lafarge Holcim-Siam City, and Ultratech-Jaypee. His choice to freelance is motivated by the variety of opportunities and situations it provides while offering the flexibility to pursue other passions and hobbies.
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Abdullah Karayumak, CFA
As a former KPMG consultant, Abdullah has collaborated with investors, lenders, and developers on complex investment decisions for 13+ years. He brings experience across infrastructure, renewable energy, and healthcare, including PPPs and large-scale investments. He applies a rigorous, model-driven approach to support value creation, risk assessment, and capital allocation. Abdullah is a CFA charterholder and combines technical depth with a practical, execution-focused mindset.
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Gabriel Simion
Gabriel has extensive experience working in the strategy and operations teams of the two largest consulting firms in the world, Deloitte and PwC. He was involved in many challenging projects, including the elaboration of an important governmental strategy regarding the transition from coal.
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Sameer Bakhru, CFA
Sameer has led a $100 million franchise partnership. He is a blockchain expert, having worked with crypto startups from social media apps to NFT platforms and P2E games. His experience includes fundraising, tokenomics, whitepapers business strategy, asset sales, corporate finance, and M&A. Sameer has worked with billionaires, private equity firms, and family offices, providing unique insights into investor mindsets. Sameer joined Toptal to add value to a variety of businesses creatively.
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Majed A. Rahim
Majed is a former CFO at Commercial Bank of Qatar, Deputy CEO at Housing Bank Jordan, and Global CIO at Arab Bank, with over 25 years of experience across banking, M&A advisory, and corporate restructuring in the GCC and Asia. He has led over 20 M&A and restructuring mandates across eight countries, working with family groups, holding companies, and institutional investors. Today, Majed operates as a fractional CFO, COO, or CIO during periods of transition, restructuring, or growth.
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