Independent consulting, working closely with founding teams to provide targeted, actionable advice that enables them to focus on what they do best and grow their businesses. I work with early-stage companies in the Nordics, UK and Australia with high growth potential that are either preparing to seek funding, or have seed-level funding, and help them grow sustainably. The three core pillars of consulting focus are:- Business Strategy & Growth Initiatives- Fundraising and Transaction Advisory- Financial Process, Risk Management and Governance

ESS provides software solutions for SME’s to meet e-invoicing regulatory standards and implement best in class solutions for their business. The product suite of API’s assists SME businesses navigate a complex and changing regulatory landscape. This role has centred around advisory on finance, governance and operational matters.

Ignition Advice is a technology company headquartered in Sydney, with offices in London, Edinburgh & Dublin. Ignition provides digital financial advice solutions to large institutions including banks, pension funds, fund managers and insurance service providers. I led the finance and corporate shared services function at Ignition as we built the business from 20 people to 80 people globally.Core duties and achievements include leading the corporate finance and corporate operations teams for the business; investor relations involving ongoing engagement with 100+ external shareholders consisting of institutional, HNW and Family Offices; Completed multiple successful multimillion-dollar capital raising events; Manage internal and external compliance requirements including board reporting, company secretarial, AFSL compliance; Secured multimillion-dollar R&D grants & growth incentives.

BrewAI is a Deep Learning tooling startup that has developed a proprietary no-code AI tool. The business was founded to capitalise on the global trend towards adopting AI for commercial and public sector purposes. I was one of three founding shareholders to the business and provided advice and support to structure and build the foundations of the business at the outset, including raisingpre-seed capital in preparation for rapid growth. Due to the increasing activity at Ignition Advice, Isourced a full time employee to replace me as the business grew.

- Manage business services portfolio of 20 + clients, including high growth SME’s and Family Offices- Manage and provide support to team of business services staff- Provide strategic business services advice to support portfolio businesses- Variety of advisory work including re-structures & business valuations