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CEO and Co-Founder

Cambridge Judge Business School

Guest speaker for MBA and MFin lectures on the importance of Investor Fit in the Venture Capital industry and how technologies currently being developed will make this easier.

Guest Speaker

TAINA Technology Limited

-	Produced financial model, collateral and managed prospective VC and institutional investor communications that ensured valuations between 8-10X end of year ARR, leading to term sheets
-	Delivered 60% of new revenues in 2019
-	Won key first clients in the crypto and stock-trading segments
-	Negotiated key customer contracts, ensuring the business could price higher than competitors through a superior offering
-	Established a presence in the USA as part of international expansion (pre-US incorporation)
-	Co-designed and produced a retail customer-facing web and mobile web application to early adopter clients, from a business (non-technical) perspective (B2B2C distribution model)
-	Managed the successful go-live of said app, ensuring customer and compliance needs from application were met by the Technology and Compliance teams
-	Created training manuals and processes for client customer service teams to manage exception handling
-	Solicited and fed customer feedback into roadmap, produced business cases and championed customer needs with high value generating potential
-	Managed, maintained and upsold key client relationships
-	Designed and produced marketing and sales collateral, managed website re-design
-	Responsible for prospect demonstrations in key growth segments
-	Trained new users on the platform, requiring a detailed knowledge of the system and architecture
-	Invited on the Oracle podcast to discuss TAINA, Data & Analytics
-	Represented TAINA at events and in publications, including a DIT event in Frankfurt and in L39 publications.
-	Managed market communications specific to B2B and B2B2C distribution model of the business, ensuring regular feeds of market news.
-	Co-ordinated office move
-	Trained team members in production of collateral, account management and demonstrations 
-	Key decision maker for non-technical business hires
-	Successfully applied to the Morgan Stanley Multi-Cultural Innovation Lab as part of a team

Commercial and Communications Lead

Axis Corporate

Leading European Fintech: 
- Building a business on DLT for international remittances and lending platform. Activities include economic modelling, business analysis, competitor analysis, vendor negotiations, pricing strategy, customer journey mapping and client relationship management.  
- Creating Funding applications; Strategy, Product road map, commercialisation of core technology, financial sector partnership and distribution model strategy.
Leading European Fintech:
- Producing a report on market entry strategy and product alignment. Including TAM, SAM, SOM analysis, assessing likely demand for a groundbreaking financial product.
Other:
- Advising Fintechs and FIs on application to the Alternative Remedies Capability and Innovation Fund

Senior Consultant

Leading UK Bank: 
  - Assisted Branch rationalisation and Bank digitisation Programme
  - Digital tool selection, business case writing, Fintech partnership co-ordination

UK Challenger Banks and Fintechs:
  - RBS Alternative Remedies package Capability and Innovation fund strategic advisory

Head of Fintech partnerships: 
      - Ecosystem integration and evolution (technical and process)
      - Regulated DLT e-money payments and micro-payments projects 
      - Durable Media Proof of Concept
      - Business Case and senior stakeholder buy-in

Consultant

UKIMUN

Games and events company specialising in competitive game-ification around elections and other political scenarios. 
Basic data model creation for US and UK election scenarios.

Co Founder

Public Sector Security Services  – Project Manager and Business Analyst					
Led Software as a Service based project. Including: 
- Led process design for new software development marketplace project
- Management of multiple stakeholders senior to him both inside CSC and from other towers in a SIAM model
- Supported the transition of new joiners to CSC, acting in an ambassador role to multiple new work streams
- Delivered several process analyses, delivering better value to the client

Global Insurer Next-Generation IT Operating Model - Business Analyst				
- Assisted the design of a Digital TOM to enable more rapid product and service development. 
- Ensured digital strategy cohesion; combining the CSC digital vision for a Global Insurer's Operations with the vision of the client. 
- Managed internal stakeholders in an engagement with multiple moving parts.

MiFiD II impact assessment for Global FS Institution 
- Organisational impact analysis
- Recommendations on impacted business areas

Next-Generation IT Operating Model 
- Produced impact analysis for IT TOM for future integration of big data, BI, automation and hybrid cloud capabilities 
- Produced technology maturity matrix for future integrations as part of strategic change roadmap

Achievements:
- Created CSC viewpoint on the new EU-US Data Privacy Shield Agreement (data privacy)
- Co-authored CSC's thought leadership on Next-Generation Digital Target Operating Models
- Impact Analysis of MiFID II regulations on a Global Financial Institution
- Assisting with development of a Future Target Operating Model and future strategy for a global Financial Services firm
- Software Development Marketplace for Public Sector
- PRINCE II Foundation certified

Associate Consultant

thisislanguage.com

- Led business development in the UK market and assisted with US market growth
- Assisted the design of future growth strategy following a successful funding round
- Produced a phased business growth plan based upon demographic hotspots
- Assisted agile product development feedback loop from customer interactions

Account Executive & future strategy planner (Edtech startup)

- KYC reviews of High Risk and Ultra High Risk institutional clients

Senior Associate

CfBT Education Trust

- Business process re-engineering
- Business Analysis
- Proof reading of policies and standards

(Hays Contractor) Data Analyst - Agresso Project

Sovereign Housing Association

- Communications with stakeholders throughout the group
- Housing Market Research & Review for Sovereign Living Operations Manager
- Research project for Board into possible compatibility of Islamic Finance with Social Housing
- Legal Administration of complex Shared-Ownership property sales (6 party conveyancing procedures)
- Internal and external stakeholder management

(Hays Contractor) Conveyancing co-ordinator and Market Researcher

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Daniel Sawko

Fundraising Playbooks

I run Fundraising Playbooks as part of which I do 1-1 Investor Sprints with Founders and Masterclasses on Investor Outreach that actually gets replies. Between cold emailing my way to Richard Branson, Mark Cuban, getting replies from Sequoia Capital partners in <24h, VC replies in under 20min, a 7-figure HNWI reply in under 5min, and an avalanche of other results achieved by founders who use my methodology, the feedback I've been receiving can't stop raving about how my sessions are "singlehandedly the best session I ever attended", "world-class", "best one I've ever been on", "extremely practical", "had me on the edge of my seat and left with 4 pages of notes" - their words, not mine.

Managing Director

Block Dojo

Sourcing dealflow and assisting with the investment for Block Dojo's cohorts of early-stage startups. Block Dojo is a global blockchain incubator, putting companies and their founders through their paces during an intense 12 week programme, offering a mix of cash plus services to build the future of blockchain technology.

Investment & Dealflow Manager

True Altitude

Since inception, True Altitude has grown (and exited) several successful businesses, supporting clients and portfolio companies to elevate their value:
- Supported clients to raise over $625 million in capital over 3 years 
- Supported over 130 high growth entrepreneur-led companies 
- Committed over $13m principal investment 
- Completed portfolio 41 investments
- Successfully delivered market leading accelerator programs with commercial outcomes
- Supported partners to elevate their value 
- Realized exit value and secondaries for 3 investments to date

KapVista Ventures

Supporting the dealflow & investment processes of a small early stage fund & advisory.

Investment Associate

Facilitating IBM's Europe's Technical Leadership Team's planning, organisation and governance of a number of company-internal initiatives (such as educational programmes to develop the technical skillsets, masterclasses and networking events) to ensure the acceleration of technical leadership growth and identification of high-calibre professionals for career progression.

Technical Sales Leadership Team Support

Eva Dobrzanska (fundraisingplaybooks.com) helps startup founders reach more investors with step-by-step strategies used by founders in real life to raise millions. Her playbooks secured:
- VC reply within 20min of hitting ‘Send’ ⏱️ 
- a reply from Mark Cuban 🤝 
- a reply from Sequoia Capital in <24 hours 🌳
- a reply from Richard Branson’s team in 1 day 💼
- a stellar 100% response rate within first the first 4 hours of sending out 8 cold emails (8/8) 🎯

Her masterclasses are regularly oversubscribed with a record of 1k+ signed up in July this year. 

So far delivered in partnerships with 
- HSBC Innovation Banking,
- SeedLegals, 
- HubSpot for Startups,
- Google Cloud, 
- Scribe, 
- Plugged
- Foras, 
- NBT,
and many other amazing companies and organisations.

Fundraising Playbooks (www.fundraisingplaybooks.com) are a set of ready-to-use resources and copy & paste templates for investor outreach and investor relationship building.

Eva enjoys meeting new people (when in her extroverted months), discovering a new song that ends up on repeat the whole day, and researching all things related to startups & investment trends to uncover new strategic playbooks. 

She works with Startup Founders 1-1 in form of Investor Sprints and the most exciting part of them is when “you get to uncover new fundraising playbook specifically for that founder”. 

Part time video gamer (lassoing horses in Red Dead Redemption 2 🐎), learning how to row (across Thames), reading (Red Notice) and trying to continue her daily meditation streak.

(I also like bird watching and 80s music)

Feel free cold email me anytime. 

eva@fundraisingplaybooks.com

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