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Laurie Harvey

Freelance Business Analyst

United StatesToptal Member Since October 3, 2018

Laurie is a skilled manager who drives unprecedented results. Starting from the ground up, she's a strong leader. She leverages her ability to inspire results with a focus on prioritizing high-impact efforts. Laurie has delivered B2B and B2C offerings for startups and enterprises—exceeding customer expectations, solving their most pressing challenges, and fulfilling new market opportunities.

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Hanzel Corella

Freelance Business Analyst

United StatesToptal Member Since September 19, 2019

For over ten years, Hanzel has been launching new products to market for both startups and Fortune 500 companies. He’s worked in retail, energy, healthcare, online payments, ride-sharing, IoT (internet of things), and solar power industries. As a product consultant, corporate innovation manager, and director of a creative agency, Hanzel is well versed in brand, UX/UI, web and mobile development, and digital marketing.

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Eric Nowak

Freelance Business Analyst

United StatesToptal Member Since September 13, 2019

Eric is a seasoned product leader—passionate about improving businesses at every stage. A former software engineer and analytics junkie, Eric built a $1.2 billion network/security business from scratch. He has created market leaders in new technology fields, revamped services in decline, and executed successful exit strategies for long-term underperformers. He excels at focusing a talented team's efforts to create amazing experiences.

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Rana Mumtaz

Freelance Business Analyst

United StatesToptal Member Since August 28, 2019

Rana is a growth product leader experienced in growing KPIs to triple digits. She has over 15 years of experience in technology and over a decade of experience in product growth, strategy, and analytics. Her experience includes B2C, B2B, SaaS, and AI/machine-learning products. Rana also holds an MBA from Wharton and has worked companies such as AOL, GoDaddy, NYSE, Pendo, Mimeo.com, BMO Capital Markets, and Ask.com.

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Whitney Kimmel

Freelance Business Analyst

United StatesToptal Member Since September 13, 2019

Whitney has 12 years of digital marketing and product management experience. She has a solid track record of delivering end-to-end strategy, having worked with Fortune 500 companies and startups, driving strategic wins in organizations such as GoToMeeting, Royal Caribbean, Pampers Diapers, and Kaplan. She's known for tightly managing KPIs, scaling teams, and anticipating obstacles. B2C, B2B, SaaS, and eCommerce initiatives are a strong focus.

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Samuel Holland

Freelance Business Analyst

United StatesToptal Member Since February 28, 2019

Sam Holland is a product leader and founder with over a decade of experience across several business models, including ads, SaaS, and enterprise with expertise in marketplaces. He has a passion for building new customer-facing products utilizing data, machine learning, and simple design that drive significant business growth. Lastly, Sam values connection and cares deeply about his coworkers and users.

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Jonathan Schaffer

Freelance Business Analyst

United StatesToptal Member Since July 24, 2019

Jonathan is an unabashedly customer-centric product innovator and entrepreneurial leader, operating at the cross-section of business strategy, technology, and design. Jonathan offers over a decade’s worth of experience in innovation strategy, product development, and business operations, working with some of the most well-known brands in the world. He is a team player recognized for the ability to motivate through inspiration and lead by example.

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Matti Kakkori

Freelance Business Analyst

United StatesToptal Member Since June 5, 2019

Matti is an experienced data product and technology leader with wide-ranging experience from large world-class organizations working on consumer hardware products to building AI startup’s B2B SaaS product from scratch. Matti's expertise is the product creation from the first idea to market success with special focus on leveraging data and AI technologies in easy-to-use products.

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Nick Guggenbuehl

Freelance Business Analyst

United StatesToptal Member Since June 11, 2019

Nick’s a proven product leader who thrives on taking opaque ideas and turning them into well-articulated, revenue-generating solutions. Nick's experience in digital health has offered many opportunities to innovate. From pioneering the digitization of health at EHR leader Epic to launching and advising numerous health tech startups, building transparency tools at health plans, and ushering in digital transformation at biopharma, he's dedicated his career to improving healthcare from every angle.

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Michael Lipari

Freelance Business Analyst

United StatesToptal Member Since July 1, 2019

For 20 years, Mike has driven revenue by developing innovative software and service solutions. His diverse experience in healthcare, consulting, supply chain, CPG, and pharma has led to the development of a new innovation model; greatly improving new product success. After designing a SaaS solution for shared electronic medical records at Healthvision, Mike has worked as a freelance innovation expert to drive growth for software clients.

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Sean Bhardwaj

Freelance Business Analyst

United StatesToptal Member Since May 6, 2019

Sean is a product strategist with 10+ years of experience building and leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-performing solutions that solve complex challenges, delight customers, and grow revenues. He leverages his expertise in design thinking to successfully create products and services for consumers, business, education, government, and nonprofit markets across a wide range of industries in organizations from startup to enterprise.

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One of our most time consuming problems is finding qualified staff. We need to find the correct platform to advertise on, create a proper ad, filter through tons of applications, interview and test the applicants' capabilities, and finally take a risk by hiring. This was the old way of doing things. The new way: describe the job position to our Toptal account manager, interview a few qualified applicants, and hire with a risk-free trial -- much faster, a lot easier, and with incredible results.

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I can't say enough about how happy and confident I am in working with Enrique. He brings an enthusiasm to his profession that is very refreshing, constantly surprising us with his depth of knowledge and his capability to not only complete the task, but to surpass our expectations. He presents us with solutions that we would not have thought about ourselves, and sees the problem better than we can explain it.

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  • How are Toptal Business Analysts different?

    At Toptal, we thoroughly screen our Business Analysts to ensure we only match you with talent of the highest caliber. Of the more than 100,000 people who apply to join the Toptal network each year, fewer than 3% make the cut. You'll work with product management experts (never generalized recruiters or HR reps) to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics. The end result: expert vetted talent from our network, custom matched to fit your business needs. Start now.

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    Depending on availability and how fast you can progress, you could start working with a Business Analyst within 48 hours of signing up. Start now.

  • What is the no-risk trial period for Toptal Business Analysts?

    We make sure that each engagement between you and your Business Analyst 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. Start now.

  • What type of talent does Toptal have?

    Our platform hosts a very diverse set of skill sets, experiences, and backgrounds. Our freelancers range from software engineers, user experience designers, project management experts, and product managers to finance experts who have worked at leading companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. Our business analysis consultants are strategists with multiple years of experience in agile product development and business process optimization. They have great problem solving and communication skills. They excel at a myriad of project types, such as data analysis, business requirements analysis, and others.

  • What other services does Toptal provide?

    Besides our talent matching services, we also provide web and application development services like a development company. Through our Toptal Projects team, we assemble cross-functional teams of senior project managers, web developers, app developers, user interface designers, and freelancers with other technical skills. Our team members follow a well-defined development process to build a fully functional solution.

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