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Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice LeadAs Toptal’s Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead, Matt focuses on helping clients address critical issues and drive value across their enterprises. He brings 35 years of senior-level consulting experience, having held leadership roles at Cognizant, Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.As Toptal’s Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead, Matt focuses on helping clients address critical issues and drive value across their enterprises. He brings 35 years of senior-level consulting experience, having held leadership roles at Cognizant, Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.
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Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead
As Toptal’s Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead, Matt focuses on helping clients address critical issues and drive value across their enterprises. He brings 35 years of senior-level consulting experience, having held leadership roles at Cognizant, Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.
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Experience
35+ Years
Delivery Manager
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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Experience
9+ Years
13+ Years
of Experience
Marita is a senior executive with more than 13 years of experience in human resources and operations. She has led change management projects impacting businesses in the financial, retail, manufacturing, and automotive sectors, and performed recruitment, selection, salary analysis, career path development, and work environment examination. Marita holds a bachelor’s degree in services administration, an international MBA, and has done postgraduate studies in human management.
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30+ Years
of Experience
Rick is a business strategy, financial planning, and operations expert with more than 30 years of experience as a chief operating and strategy officer and a Big 5 management consultant. He has led three company turnarounds, including one for a $500 million multinational firm, growing revenue by 28% and increasing profitability by 21% within two years. Leveraging his experience with companies of all sizes and across industries, Rick is willing to start delivering value and results in new projects.
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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. Lately, Rich has founded DART, an organization focusing on innovative digital health solutions.
Previously at
7+ Years
of Experience
Francine is a passionate professional with more than seven years of experience as a change management consultant. Her work has supported huge multinational companies to achieve new or improved business results through technology and organizational development. Francine focuses on assisting clients with their transformation and change management projects and programs.
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20+ Years
of Experience
Michelle is an HR consultant and fractional CHRO who has worked as a strategic business partner in organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500s. As an executive leader, she has a business-first mindset and focuses on people strategies, change management, wellness, workforce planning, recruitment, DEI, and culture. Michelle holds the SHRM-SCP, GPHR, and SPHR certifications and is one of Mogul's top 100 CHROs in 2023, bringing unique thought leadership to companies.
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34+ Years
of Experience
Alan is an international insurance digital transformation strategist and implementer, currently based in the US. He has helped some of the world’s largest insurers figure out how to respond to new technologies and changing customer demands, to the benefit of both their customers and themselves. Alan has delivered in multiple roles as a program director, change director, program manager, project manager, and Scrum master.
Previously at
25+ Years
of Experience
Emily is a senior diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and HR executive who has spent 25+ years at a Big 4 professional services firm, focused on creating a more inclusive, flexible work environment. Her expertise includes DEI, organizational development and change, team/leadership development, facilitation, and employee engagement. Emily freelances to drive DEI progress across industries, bringing her energy for designing and implementing impactful strategies and programs to different teams.
Previously at
28+ Years
of Experience
Desmond is a change and transformation leader experienced across a range of industries. For more than 28 years, he's architected and guided change initiatives for corporations, governments, higher education, and nonprofits. This work involves processes and technologies, but at the core, people are those who determine project success or failure. Desmond brings field-proven methods and tools to help senior leadership, program directors, and project teams achieve success.
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17+ Years
of Experience
Germee is an established finance leader who has assisted startups and mid-sized clients in the UK, US, and Asia in securing over $128 million in funding. As an investment banker at ING Bank, she guided clients through the buying and selling of companies, including advising the world's second-largest geothermal firm, backed by her valuation models. Germee has added value for clients in construction, retail, and manufacturing with her data-driven financial strategies.
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20+ Years
of Experience
Serhiy is a management consultant with more than 20 years of experience managing large organizations and working with international companies such as P&G, Deloitte, Lafarge, Alexander Proudfoot, and USAID. Specializing in world-class management practices, Lean Six Sigma systems implementation, complex operations optimization, performance and profit enhancement, cost reduction, troubleshooting, crisis and change management, Serhiy is willing to share his experience to help businesses grow.
Previously at
20+ Years
of Experience
Andon is a media executive with over 20 years of experience driving strategic and operational excellence across digital media and broadcasting. As fractional COO at Toptal, he provides strategic business guidance to executive clients. Previously, he led Storyful's growth from 50 to 170 employees across five global locations while increasing revenue by 50%. At CNN Digital, he grew video traffic by 90% and exceeded revenue targets by 20%. Andon holds an MBA from Yale University.
Previously at
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.
Previously at
15+ Years
of Experience
Jessie is an experienced growth strategist in international education and purpose-led startups who excels in APAC market development and operational management. She has the ability to connect Western best practices with Eastern cultural norms, fostering innovation and a growth mindset. Jessie is driven by continuous learning and the idea of co-creating a just world through commerce.
Previously at
18+ Years
of Experience
John is a highly commercial, entrepreneurial leader who speaks six languages. His proudest achievement was founding his own travel technology startup, CultureMee, which won global awards in business and leisure travel. He is also proud to have led a Europe-wide, cross-functional supply chain project, which drove a €40 million reduction in working capital in CRH Plc, one of the largest construction companies in the world.
Previously at
28+ Years
of Experience
Neel is a finance leader and change agent with more than 28 years of experience and a track record of impact in Fortune 50 companies. He has driven transformations to the tune of $250 million, EBITDA uplift of $100 million+, and sustainable change by managing mandates in multinationals, SMEs, and startups. Neel is adept at navigating across countries, regions, and cultures, and he brings an entrepreneurial and creative mindset, drive, and passion to design and execute win-win solutions for his clients.
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Challenge: Despite a standardized onboarding process, the client recognized that procedural and experiential differences across plants were impacting new hire retention. The client sought Toptal’s help with a cross-functional change management strategy that would align teams and create a richer, more consistent new hire experience.
Solution: Toptal provided strategic guidance to help leaders break out of organizational silos, manage competing priorities, and improve internal communication. They also worked with the client to establish a repeatable process, ensuring continued alignment across executive sponsors and departments. In addition, Toptal facilitated leadership coaching and regular check-ins to track progress, plan effectively, and support the team in driving change and meeting key goals.
Outcome: By aligning onboarding efforts with employee needs and expectations, the organization built trust from day one. Turnover dropped significantly with better support and integration of new hires, leading to stronger team cohesion and long-term retention. With improved communication and collaboration, teams developed better cross-functional engagement that then accelerated decision-making. Toptal’s contributions fostered a consistent, resilient culture that transcended silos, encouraged innovation, and enabled both immediate and sustained success.
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