Innovation and Leadership Team Lead | Strategically connecting Corporates and their Leaders with Startups I Connectd

Connectd works with individuals looking to build fractional careers through board advisor, non-executive director and fractional c-suite roles.

Through the Connectd platform, we help both active and aspiring fractionals access networking and fractional opportunities, CPD-accredited training and mentoring.

In turn, we support businesses in overcoming their biggest challenges through strategic fractional support to help take them to the next level!

Connectd also works with leading Venture Capital firms, including Fuel Ventures, Haatch & Antler, as well as wider ecosystems, such as Startup Grind & Barclays Eagle Labs, to support their startups to build their boards and move the needle on core business metrics.

If you’d like to explore opportunities, feel free to email me at: will.s@connectd.co

William Smith

As a Customer Success Team Leader at Connectd, I help startups, investors, and advisors find each other. We've identified the difficulties within these processes and developed a platform that will make it easier for each of these verticals to find each other. We are specifically assisting in Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A rounds for early-stage businesses that are actively looking for relevant angel investors in the UK. 

Alternatively, we also work with Series A businesses that are looking for institutional VCs, family offices and compelling traction cases.

This role ties in with my passion of supporting entrepreneurs and democratising the access to funding for those founders that are passionate about their business.

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Jon Teale

Connectd ranked 67th on the FT1000: Europe’s Fastest-Growing Companies 2026!!

It’s pretty special to see the day-to-day work the team puts in recognised like that.

When you’re deep in it, you don’t always think about the bigger picture. You’re focused on improving things, supporting members, and moving projects forward.

So this one really does feel like a pinch-me moment

Customer Success Team Leader at Connectd - Supporting founders and advisors within the Connectd community.

Proud to be part of the Connectd team and the culture that we have built!!

Forever grateful to Roei Samuel for having me on this amazing journey

CEO @ Connectd | Helping 100k fractionals launch their career | #5 LinkedIn Top Startups | #18 SundayTimes100 | Ex-RealSport Founder (acquired)

Take your employees on holiday.

Not a team building weekend. An actual holiday.

At Connectd, we've put our money where our mouth is on this for years.

First two years: we took everyone. Lisbon, then Madrid.

Entire company, no questions asked.

That set the foundation for what we're building. Everyone in the same place, different countries and time zones forgotten for a few days.

No laptops, no deliverables. Just being humans together.

Now we're 120 people. Can't take everyone anymore, but the culture of rewards is still there.

Last year: 50 people to Split. This year: Malta, another 50.

It's based on merit, votes, and year-long competitions. People earn it. And that makes it mean even more.

We've also done F1, the Oasis reunion concert, Royal Ascot.

Not client entertainment. For the team.

When you perform, when you show up, when you're part of making this work - we notice.

The retention rate sits at 90%+.

That's not just salary. It's because people actually like working here. They feel valued. They want to be part of what we're building.

You can't fake that with free snacks or a ping pong table.

Rewards have to be real. Experiences people actually remember.

Those first two years when we took everyone? That's what built the culture we have now.

Now it's about keeping that same energy as we scale. Rewarding the people who make it happen.

If you're a founder thinking "we can't afford this" - we couldn't really afford it either in year one.

But it's worth it. The people who were on those trips are the ones still here, still building, still believing in what we're doing.

Definitely a pinch me moment as Connectd was on the Times Square!!

So proud of what we have achieved!! Grateful to be on this amazing journey Roei Samuel   🚀

Connectd is live in Times Square 🗽

When we started, the focus was simple: make it easier for experts to step into fractional work with structure and credibility, and help startups bring in senior support at the right time.

That focus hasn’t changed. The scale has.

Today, that looks like:

✨ 10,000+ startups and fractional leaders globally 
✨ Experts building diversified, fulfilling careers 
✨ Startups bringing in senior experience earlier

This billboard is a moment to recognise how far the fractional movement has come, and how seriously it’s now being taken.

Grateful to the team and the community building this with us ❤️

Some our amazing customer outcomes recently at Connectd

Excited to see how these progress!!

Fractional support isn’t one-size-fits-all. 

It changes depending on what the business actually needs. Across our community, that’s showing up in different ways:

👉 Rick Haslam, who’s led international sales and strategy at brands like Hilton, Cigna Healthcare and Nuffield Health, stepping into Genesis Health as their Fractional CEO to help the team move from founder-led momentum to a commercially structured model built to scale.

👉 Eric Callahan, after modernising marketing analytics at American Express and shaping global strategy at Wyndham, joining Big Sister AI as Cloud Architect Advisor to support the commercialisation of their next product iteration.

👉 Jeremy King, with senior finance leadership experience across Avenue One, Insight Investment, Guggenheim Partners and Man Group, working with Cyberette as a Board Advisor to guide investor strategy and disciplined scale at a pivotal stage of growth.

Different sectors and different stages, but the same principle applies: bring in the right experience when it actually matters.

That’s when fractional support moves beyond “extra help” and becomes part of how the business actually progresses.

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