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Fractionals in the Spotlight

  • Writer: FCC
    FCC
  • Aug 18, 2023
  • 6 min read

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Our community is growing and has just passed the 600 member mark so we now have a massive variety of fractional CxO’s in our network. Many of them are open to taking on 1-2 new clients so we felt it would be useful to share some of the expertise within the community.

This post serves as a means to showcase some of the CxOs within our network along with the areas in which they can potentially provide assistance. Take a moment to peruse their profiles and don't hesitate to directly connect with those who seem suitable. If you're interested in exploring a broader range, we've introduced a complimentary service known as "Find a Fractional" for FCC members, partners, and founders.


This service offers a convenient way to discreetly present potential roles to our fractional community or simply gauge the available talent pool. If discovering a fractional professional aligns with your interests, gather more information by registering your details here.

This post is sponsored by Find a Fractional from FCC and RecWorks - See testimonials below:


"Find a Fractional is an incredible free service from the FCC and RecWorks. Effortless to engage with, and we received a series of well-qualified introductions. We didn't want just to hire the first person we met, so having a few applications to compare was very useful. We are really pleased to have found someone we feel is a great fit for our business." Mashooq Badar, MD/Cofounder, Codurance

This editions fractionals in the spotlight are below:

Fractional Chief Marketing Officers


It may be worth considering a fractional CMO if you're large enough to need senior-level, experienced support and strategic input, but not so large that you need this full-time.


Considerable experience of scale-up and high-growth firms in the global B2B technology sector - from HR software to fintechs to data, and business consulting - and capital markets industry. Kaila has also provided fractional services as an advisor to CMOs in global MNCs to focus delivery of long-term growth strategies and marketing transformation. Kaila can help with:

  • Aligning marketing capabilities with strategy and creating measurable outcomes

  • Turning around poor sales performance with targeted, segmented activity for both sales and marketing teams

  • Designing and optimising brand experiences - working across function to identify, meet and enhance audience needs, from buyer to employees

  • Coaching and mentoring newly promoted heads of marketing.

Emma draws on over 20 years of experience working with global B2B brands and works with startups and ambitious small businesses. She focuses mainly on tech and service-based companies, often with a global angle, and typically with between 1M and 20M revenue.

Emma can help:

  • B2B startups and small businesses 'go-to-market' more efficiently. That’s finding the right target audience and reaching that audience more quickly to achieve revenue growth.

  • Early-stage B2Bs focus on the right marketing and sales activities, balancing the strategy with the execution to ensure they're getting more bang for their buck.

  • Startups and small businesses adopt a practical approach to marketing that gets them started, but that also lays the foundations for scaling later on. She ensures structure, organisation and internal alignment, but in a sensible and accelerated way!


Fractional Chief Operating Officers


A fractional COO brings impartial, strategic insight based on significant experience and expertise. The solution is cost-effective and brings, especially to a new or founding CEO, a trusted right hand to assist with all of the heavy lifting associated with rapidly scaling up.

Dave mainly works with start-ups, scale-ups, and grown-ups in the fintech and SaaS sectors.

Work with Dave if you need somebody to…

  • Translate stategy into action - creating execution frameworks

  • Build organisational capability - people, processes, tooling

  • Join the dots - creating and sustaining organisational focus and alignment through metrics & measures


With 25 years of Senior Operations experience, Steve has worked across many industries, including financial markets, medical and hygiene, and e-Commerce. He has worked for several small businesses with 1-20 employees. He enjoys getting involved in the nitty gritty of the business. This allows business owners to focus on their core strengths, sales etc while leaving the ops stuff to him. Great for a company with a restricted budget. He can scale up his time and the company grows. More info can be found on his linkedin page and his website. www.sidekicksk.co.uk

Steve can help you with:

  • Daily Operational Needs

  • Finance

  • Strategy

Fractional Chief Product Officers

Good product managers need expert coaching and mentoring to become great product leaders - and all organisations need great product leaders. Founders, investors and boards need a clear, compelling vision of their product's role in the world. A fractional CPO should deliver on both of these.

Jordan helps founders go from zero-to-one and beyond, smarter and faster. With 10 years of experience as a Product Leader (BCG-X, various startups), Jordan works with early-stage startups, scale-ups, and corporate ventures across a range of industries, helping them realise their full potential. Jordan can assist by:

  • Creating, aligning and executing impactful product strategy

  • Building out new product teams and nurturing product cultures

  • Finding and overcoming barriers to speed, growth and scale

Jason is a B2B kind of guy. He has worked in large corporates and scrappy startups across market research, social listening, regtech and workplace mental health, as well as his own mentoring marketplace.

Jason can help companies:

  • Get to the bottom of the organisation's most pressing product problems and come up with a pragmatic, actionable plan to tackle them.

  • Coach and develop product managers & product leaders to be true business partners

  • Bridge the gap between product, tech and commercial functions and make sure everyone works together effectively (and enjoys doing it)


Fractional Chief Finance Officers


Hiring a fractional CFO gives you access to C Suite individuals at a fraction of the price tag, which means budget can be freed up to recruit more junior team members who can look after the day to day. It also offers an improved selection if you need someone with a particular skill (e.g. M&A).

Rakesh has worked within a financial capacity throughout his career, and has over 3 years of experience working as a Fractional CFO. He works with SaaS, Ecommerce, Fintech and Cleantech businesses from pre-seed up to Series C. He can help with:

  • Financial modelling, unit economics, metrics and KPIs

  • Systems, processes and procedures to scale up

  • Day to day financial management and cashflow forecasting


Allan has worked across sectors such as: tech, med tech, medical manufacturing, fintech, financial services, pharma, recruitment, and gaming, helping companies from start up to $5bn revenue. Allan has also worked with companies from a range of locations, such as UK, Middle East, Asia, LATAM, and North America. Allan can help you if you need to:

  • Raise finance (IPO and/or PE) to help scale-up and/or M&A.

  • Realise exit value for Founders.

  • Build accounting and reporting systems for corporate governance.


Fractional Chief Technology Officers


Early-stage startups and smaller businesses often can't afford to hire a full-time CTO or simply don't need one. Fractional CTOs provide the value of a CTO without the same cost or commitment.

James is an executive coach and fractional CTO with over a decade leading product and technology at startups and scale ups, and helping more eatablished businesses build brand new venture.

He can bring:

  • A fresh pair of eyes as an outsider and will question assumptions

  • A depth of knowledge and expertise covering product, people, and technology

  • Excellent communication and coaching

Khalil has worked mostly with start-ups from seed to round c funding with anywhere from 1 employee to 150, as well as more established businesses needing a tech focussed transformation. Khalil can help your business:

  • Evaluate the gaps in your tech strategy and team processes and quickly understand what's needed to plug them.

  • Make better use of data you are collecting and provide an understanding of what data you should be collecting.

  • Understand what investors are looking for and how to present your tech to them in the best light.


Fractional Chief Commercial Officers

Early-stage startups and smaller businesses often can’t afford to hire a full-time Chief Revenue Officer or Chief Commercial Officer. Fractional CCO’s can help you with sales, marketing, customer success and everything in between.

Volker Ballueder - www.linkedin.com/in/ballueder From early-stage start-ups to multinational, multi million pound turnover companies, Volker has experience with most of it.


Volker can help with:

  • Building sales, marketing, customer success teams

  • Coaching and training sales teams, changing their behaviour, making them more efficient

  • Coaching sales leaders to manage their teams more effectively and improving productivity

Guy has thirty-three years B2B Sales and Marketing experience across different sectors. He has collaborated with companies ranging from start-ups, to those with a turnover of up to £2 billion. Guy can be your Fractional Sales Director, driving growth through proactive Sales and Marketing initiatives, making a difference for your business on the ground.

Guy can:

  • Help to grow your business through value add B2B Sales

  • Solve B2B sales problems that fit with client needs

  • Sales Process, Strategy and Delivery

  • Team Management, training and mentoring

This post is sponsored by Find a Fractional

"Incredible free service from the FCC and RecWorks. Effortless to engage with, and we received a series of well-qualified introductions. We didn't want just to hire the first person we met, so having a few applications to compare was very useful. We are really pleased to have found someone we feel is a great fit for our business." Mashooq Badar, MD/Cofounder, Codurance

“I’m a fractional CTO myself and a member of the FCC network. I used the Find a Fractional service to connect with a CRO for our business. It was very simple, we just submitted a few bits of information and were presented with a shortlist of potential people. We spoke with the consultants who seemed the most suitable and found someone who was perfect. Thanks Barry.” Charlie Markham, Fractional CTO, Metapraxis

If you'd like to find out more, then register your details here.




 
 

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