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Michael is a senior executive with more than 35 years of experience running strategic consulting practices at IBM, PwC, and, most recently, as Head of Consulting for the Americas at Cognizant. He is also a guest lecturer at Columbia and Baruch universities.
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GM of Management ConsultingMichael is a senior executive with more than 35 years of experience running strategic consulting practices at IBM, PwC, and, most recently, as Head of Consulting for the Americas at Cognizant. He has focused his career on building consulting practices and advising clients on business, financial, and technology challenges, as well as leading business transformations for clients in a variety of industries.Michael is a senior executive with more than 35 years running strategic consulting practices at IBM, PwC, and, most recently, as Head of Consulting for the Americas at Cognizant. He is also a guest lecturer at Columbia and Baruch universities.
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GM of Management Consulting
Michael is a senior executive with more than 35 years running strategic consulting practices at IBM, PwC, and, most recently, as Head of Consulting for the Americas at Cognizant. He has focused his career on building consulting practices and advising clients on business, financial, and technology challenges, as well as leading business transformations for clients in a variety of industries.
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Experience
35+ Years
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Rachael serves as a Delivery Manager at Toptal with a focus on leading diverse global teams in developing innovative solutions for our clients. She works across multiple disciplines, including technology, marketing, and management consulting. Rachael specializes in managing people and client relationships, process optimization, and driving teams toward optimal business outcomes.
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9+ Years
16+ Years
of Experience
Francesco has 16+ years of experience in finance, consulting, business management, and sustainability. Throughout these years, he has worked on more than 20 projects as a consultant at Bain & Company and launched Uber operations in Turin, Italy. Lately, he has founded Tondo, an organization spreading circular economy concepts, and Tondo lab, a company driving the implementation of clean and circular innovations. Francesco is passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship.
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16+ Years
of Experience
Jimmy has executed and evaluated more than $1 billion in debt, equity, and M&A transactions at the investment bank J.P. Morgan, the private equity firm Warwick Group, and as a consultant. He’s advised businesses ranging from prerevenue startups to public companies valued at more than $1 billion in a broad range of industries. Jimmy holds an MBA with honors from Wharton, and he joined Toptal to help clients create tangible value and learn about new business models.
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10+ Years
of Experience
Arvind is a consultant with more than 10 years of experience, including at KPMG Global Strategy Group, Goldman Sachs, and EY across the Middle East, America, India, and Europe. He has delivered 30+ projects, including growth strategies and business plans; M&A and financial analyses; pitch decks; and go-to-market, branding, and digital strategies. Arvind has a demonstrated track record in planning and delivering complex transformations ranging from $2 million to $1 billion. He holds an MBA from HEC Paris.
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18+ Years
of Experience
Thorsten is a corporate finance advisor and CFO with an international career in investment banking (Lehman Brothers, Banco Santander) and technology ventures. He partners with SMEs as well as PE/VC investors in the TMT, healthcare, consumer, and financial services sectors to solve strategic and financial challenges. He is also an expert financial modeler and speaks English, German, and French.
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33+ Years of
of Experience
Julio has diversified experience as a finance VP for multinationals based in the US and Latin America in the financing, pharmaceutical, luxury goods, and personal care sectors and distribution channels, such as retail, wholesale, and travel retail. Julio's expertise includes financial planning and modeling, investment banking, commercial real estate, fundraising, business plan development, logistics, company valuation, and strategic and visionary leadership based on innovation and creativity.
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20+ Years
of Experience
David is an M&A expert who has worked with the owners of 100+ businesses to raise capital, exit their investments at premium valuations, or execute successful acquisitions and initial public offerings. With 20+ years of experience, including six years at PwC, he has worked in many industries and extensively in the technology, media, and telecommunications and renewable energy sectors. David joined Toptal to advise clients on complex M&A and capital-raising transactions across the world.
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9+ Years
of Experience
Ekaterina is a project manager following Agile methodology with a background in finance. She enjoys the complexity of a project manager's work, with its problem-solving, technical analysis, communication with the team and stakeholders, and the ever-changing nature of the work from project to project. Ekaterina favors the servant leadership approach with her team, as it helps the team to produce results at the top of their abilities while maintaining a comfortable work environment.
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17+ Years
of Experience
Over his 17+ years as a professional service provider, Olov has conducted 34 M&A engagements for corporate investors and 36 for financial investors, including private equity, investment companies, venture capital, and hedge funds. He has vast experience across many sectors in Europe, the US, and Asia.
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31+ Years
of Experience
Nuno has worked for more than 31 years in consumer packaged goods at Unilever and B2B at the Navigator Company. In 2020, he started working as an independent consultant, often managing McKinsey and Eurogroup transformation teams or doing freelance work. With his skills and expertise, Nuno will be a great addition to any team.
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24+ Years
of Experience
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 initial public offering. He was also an equity analyst at Barclays Capital & Lehman Brothers and began his career at a boutique investment bank (M&A, restructuring, debt financing). 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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11+ Years
of Experience
Simone has 11+ years of expertise in strategy consulting, private equity, venture capital-backed businesses, and entrepreneurship. As a freelancer, she has vast experience in strategic projects for VC- and PE-backed companies, fundraising, and supporting earlier-stage businesses. A strategic problem solver, she enjoys providing structure to solve complex challenges. Simone quickly grasps the broader perspective, understands practical limitations, and executes for performance improvement.
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16+ Years
of Experience
Piero has more than 16 years of experience in developing financial models of the most disparate nature, including capital raising, tax optimization, financial planning, and transaction structuring as a consultant and in the oil and gas (Saudi Aramco), technology (Amazon), and financial sectors (BNP Paribas). His focus is on modeling, FP&A, valuation, data analysis, and financial derivatives. Piero has co-founded and successfully launched an initial coin offering for a cryptocurrency providing liquidity, Linker Coin.
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26+ Years
of Experience
Rich is an award-winning leader specializing in answering his clients’ business growth, operations, and change management questions with innovative techniques. He has more than 26 years of experience in business development, operations, management, and market strategy, working with private equity and Fortune 100 companies like Kroger, Cigna, and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
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28+ Years
of Experience
Lori is an experienced management consultant who led and managed entire M&A processes for acquisitions, divestitures, and carve-outs. Specializing in strategy development, target identification, market research, financial-plan preparation and valuation, due diligence, letter-of-intent negotiation and agreement, and plan execution, Lori has worked at a Fortune 500 business, a startup, and an investment bank, dealing with SaaS, manufacturing, consumer products, and industrial automation.
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26+ Years
of Experience
Pedro is a senior manager with 26+ 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 its business to a sustainable path of value creation.
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