I help you grow and scale your business as an Fractional CFO. Through the company I founded, ThriveGrowth, I get to do what I love: support startups and SMEs with my finance expertise. With nearly two decades of finance experience — six as the Finance Director of a technology startup — I know what it means to step into a fast-paced business and pinpoint areas for growth.

During my six years at the aforementioned startup, I:

•	Helped it grow from 10 to 50 people
•	Raised £55m over 6 rounds
•	Created a finance function and the necessary team
•	Enabled the company to expand abroad
•	Watched as the company almost went under and helped turn it around 
•	Grew its valuation to £200m 

Now, I bring everything I’ve learned to founders and entrepreneurs through ThriveGrowth. With real hands-on experience, I can help at each stage of your journey (startup, growing, scaling). If you need a CFO, advisor, consultant, or mentor to help you grow your company, get in touch.

👉🏽Schedule a call: https://calendly.com/thrive-growth
👉🏽Email me: enquiries@thrivegrowth.co.uk
👉🏽Call: 0203 920 8210

Rakesh Shah

Talentedge and Talentedge Exec partner with VC & PE firms, Founders and C-Suite leaders of high growth startups and scaleups across the tech, media and consumer landscape as they build finance teams to support rapid expansion. 

I lead our UK and US divisions, splitting my time between both locations. 

Most of my work sits around key inflection points:

•	The first senior finance hire
•	Upgrading finance once growth outpaces structure
•	Improving visibility, forecasting and commercial / data-led insights
•	Fixing finance after it’s become reactive rather than strategic

I’ve spent the last decade partnering with high-growth technology, tech-enabled and media businesses, helping them hire finance leaders who can operate in fast-moving environments and drive better decisions — not just report numbers.

I’m not a volume recruiter. I work best with people who want straight market insight, honest advice and access to finance talent that can actually operate at the stage they’re in and moving into.

If you’re working in a scaling business and thinking about your finance function — I’d love to compare notes.

Contact details:
Alex.laurent@talentedge.pro
UK: +44 (0) 75 0670 7760
US: +1 (347) 754-3531

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