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Leadership Careers Beyond Finance - An Overview

March 5, 2025

Joanne Grindrod (CFO, AMA), Kerry McClelland (VP Finance, 9Fin), and Sabrina Castiglione (CFO, Omnea) share their experiences, insights and advice on stepping beyond finance and into general management

How to integrate AI into your job search

March 5, 2025

How to take advantage of AI to elevate your job search.

Leadership Careers Beyond Finance with Joanne Grindrod

October 30, 2024

Careers Beyond Finance: Sabrina Castiglione

October 7, 2024

During her career, Sabrina Castiglione has been Chief of Staff, Head of People, CFO, COO and is currently CFO at Omnea. However, her career to date has been defined less by job titles and more by her passion for the sector, the part she’s played in the success of the early-stage businesses she’s been part…

Finance Leadership Interview: Duncan Burgess

August 29, 2024

Succeeding In A Startup Finance Leadership Interview: Duncan Burgess, Startup/Scaleup CFO

Finance Leadership Interview: Sanjay Bowry, Gravitee

August 15, 2024

Succeeding In A Startup Finance Leadership Interview: Sanjay Bowry, Gravitee

Careers Beyond Finance: Kerry McClelland, 9fin

July 16, 2024

Kerry is currently VP of Finance at FinTech scaleup up 9Fin. She has worked closely with founders and C-Suite leaders throughout her career both in finance and general management roles. After 9 years in PE she joined the Board at consumer tech scaleup FIIT as CFO during a period in which the business grew 650%…

Leadership Careers Beyond Finance with Ed Renaut

January 22, 2023

Ed Renaut is Chief Business Officer at Ennismore, the largest and fastest growing lifestyle hospitality business. Their brands include Gleneagles, Mondrian, The Hoxton and Delano. Ed started his career at Big 4 accounting firm Deloitte before going on to work with a variety of business ranging from owner managed SMEs to FTSE 100 groups. When you started your career in…

Coffee with a startup CFO – Guy Hutchinson

March 8, 2022

Continuing on with our CFO series, this week I was fortunate to catch up with Guy Hutchinson. Let’s hear his thoughts… What do you make of the current UK startup market? As far as I’m concerned, it’s looking pretty healthy. There’s a lot more seed funds doing decent sized seed rounds (£1-2m which gives you…

Coffee with a startup CFO – Hugo Grimston at Paddle

March 7, 2022

As part of our Coffee with a startup CFO series I will be meeting with CFO’s within the tech startup space to discuss their views on the market, career experiences and how the future looks for them. This week, I caught up with Hugo Grimston, CFO at one of the UK’s fastest growing software scaleups, Paddle.…

Coffee with a startup CFO – Camilla Taylor at What3Words

March 7, 2022

Continuing on with our CFO series, this week I was fortunate to catch up with Camilla Taylor of SaaS startup What3Words. What do you make of the current UK startup market? My first CFO startup role was in 2013. Back then, the market felt characterised by funding gaps – most notably between Seed and Series…